Section outline

  • Welcome to the LifeWatch ERIC Internal Joint Initiative
    • Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director
    • Juan Miguel González-Aranda – Chief Technology Officer/ICT Core Director
    • Christos Arvanitidis – Chief Executive Officer
    Round Table 1: Cooperation between Research Infrastructures in the marine domain in the framework of NIS threats and challenges jointly organised with ENVRI-FAIR

    Chairperson: Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director

    • Andreas Petzold – IAGOS AISBL, Forschungszentrum Juelich
    • Juan José Dañobeitia – EMSO ERIC
    • Wiebe Kooistra – SZN
    • Christos Arvanitidis – Chief Executive Officer
    Session 1: Long term monitoring of hard-bottom marine communities (IJI Validation Case #2)

    Chairperson: Matthias Obst – University of Gothenburg

    • Presentation of scientific (Katrina Exter – VLIZ Marine Observation Centre) and technological (Antonio José Sáenz-Albanés – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core) results of the ARMS workflow: photographic and genetic data from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) to track NIS colonisation of European waters and monitor long-term changes of marine hard-bottom communities.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects, including Dimitra Mavraki – HCMR, LifeWatch Greece.