General overview of MINKE project

1. Metrology for Integrated marine
maNagement and Knowledge-transfer
nEtwork
Project funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020
Programme (2014-2020)
Grant Agreement No. 101008724
INFRAIA-02-2020: Integrating Activities for Starting
Communities

2. Photo by OBSEA

3. Project Overview
Project funded by the European Commission within the
Horizon 2020 Programme (2014-2020)
Grant Agreement No. 101008724

4. The project
PROGRAMME: H2020-EU.1.4.1.2. - Integrating and opening existing national and regional
research infrastructures of European interest
CALL: INFRAIA-02-2020-1 . Topic: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities
Integrating Activities shall combine, in a closely co-ordinated manner 3 types of activities:
• Networking Activities (NA), to foster a culture of co-operation between research
infrastructures, scientific communities, industries and other stakeholders as appropriate,
and to help develop a more efficient and attractive European Research Area;
• Trans-national Access (TNA) or Virtual Access (VA) Activities, to support scientific
communities in their access to the identified key research infrastructures;
• Joint Research Activities (JRA), to improve, in quality and/or quantity, the integrated
services provided at European level by the infrastructures.

5. The main goals
MINKE will integrate key European Marine Metrology Research Infrastructures, to coordinate
their use and development and propose an innovative framework of quality of oceanographic data
What to measure ?
Identifying the Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) as the key parameters to monitor
How to measure them ?
Adopting a multidimensional framework of data quality:
• Accuracy: Minimising the measurement errors
• Completeness: Minimising the interpolation errors
• Timeliness: Providing the observations as fast as requiered
Purpose: To retrieve (at least) the large scale features, both temporal and spatial, of the EOVs

6. Data quality approach
Spatial pattern of reference
Accurate measurements
in all stations
Accurate measurements in (few)
selected stations
Measurements in all stations
with low cost systems
Accuracy-based approach
Completeness-based approach
stations
stations
stations
stations
bias
Interpolation error
data fusion
stations
Fusion data solution
IDEAL CASE REAL OPTIONS ASSOCIATED ERRORS OPTIMAL PRODUCT

7. Vision
Primary reference
nodes
Secondary reference
nodes
Scientific users
Operators
Participatory nodes
Accuracy Accuracy + Completeness

8. Completeness
Citizen observatories & Fablabs
Accuracy
Advanced instrumentation & Calibration centres
MINKE Research Infrastructures

9. Quadruple Helix
Quintuple Helix
knowledge economy
knowledge society & knowledge democracy
socio-ecological transition: Blue growth
Triple Helix
Academia,
Research
Industry,
Economic system
Government,
Political system
Media and culture
based public
Civil organizations
Context of Coastal and Ocean environments
Observational
challenges:
Coastal Monitoring
● Global warming
● Marine biodiversity
● Marine Litter
● ...
Societal challenges:
Ocean health
Marine SDG
● Accuracy
● Completeness
● FAIR principles
● ...
Quintuple Helix Model of
Innovation

10. Quintuple Helix and Integrative Activities
Quadruple Helix
Quintuple Helix
Triple Helix
Media and culture based public,
Civil organizations
Context of natural environments
Oceans Health
Industry,
Economic system
Government,
Political system
Academia,
Research
Environmental
monitoring
challenges
Oceans Health
EOVs
● Global warming
● Coastal erosion
● Marine Litter
● Non-indigenous species
● Air & Water quality
● …
Transnational & Virtual Access
(TNA-VA)
Thematic monitoring pilots
Provide access to state-of-the-art RIs
to address environmental monitoring
challenges (Thematic pilots)
Improved
observations
(quantitatively &
qualitatively)
● Innovative sensors
● Best practices
● FAIR principles
● EOSC compliance
● …
• Citizen science
programs
• FabLabs
• Environmental
organizations
• Living Labs
• …
• Research
institutions
• NMIs
• Environmental
agencies
• Sensor industry
• …
Networking
Activities
(NA)
Harmonisation of protocols
and definition of common
guidelines for research
methods, data recording,
ethics, …
Coordinate the basis
for synergistic
research projects
Joint Research Activities
(JRA)
Evaluate and refine state of the art of
marine monitoring methods. Produce
innovative monitoring data products

11. Integrative Activities & WP structure
Transnational & Virtual Access (TNA-VA)
Networking Activities
(NA)
Joint Research Activities
(JRA)
Improved
observations
(quantitatively &
qualitatively)
Coordinate the basis for
synergistic research projects
Optimised trans-
national access to
state-of-the-art RIs
WP10
COORDINATION
WP1
Building
the
Community
WP2
Harmonizing
Procedures
WP3
Harmonizing
Data
WP4
Networking
Engagement
WP5 TNA
Metrological
&
Cal. Facilities
WP6 VA
Low-Cost
Instrument.
WP7 VA
Cloud-based
Services
WP8
EOV
Global
WP9
Improving
Quality

12. Services

13. Services
Transnational access will support a wide range of users by giving free of charge access to high-
quality mature infrastructures and support services at unique multi-disciplinary metrological
laboratories and validation facilities.
Transnational Access (TNA)
The MINKE TNA package includes:
4 active in-situ marines observing “installations”
for testing and/or validating equipment in the
field.
The in-situ “installations” comprise: one underwater
coastal cabled observatory, one fixed-point marine
observatory, one instrumented coastal buoy and one
group of five FerryBox systems operating in different
European sea areas.
9 established laboratories for calibrating
instruments and investigating technology,
some with metrology-level capabilities for
specific marine measures.

14. # Participant Installation Country Unit of access
1 IFREMER ID1.1 METLAB -
Metrology Laboratory
France Week
2 NOC ID3.1 NMFCL -
National Marine Facilities Calibration Laboratory
United Kingdom day
3 NOC ID3.2 FTIR Imaging Facility - NOC-Plastics United Kingdom day
4 CNR ID4.2 ISC-Lab -
ISMAR Calibration Laboratory
Italy day
5 SHOM ID5.1 DMCO Magnetics -
Department of Metrology and Oceanographic Chemistry
France day
6 SHOM ID5.2 DMCO Temp -
Department of Metrology and Oceanographic Chemistry
France test
7 SHOM ID5.3 DMCO HPLC -Department of Metrology and Oceanographic
Chemistry
France day
8 HCMR ID6.1 PCL -
Poseidon Calibration lab
Greece Week
9 OGS ID8.1 CTMO -
Centro di Taratura e Metrologia Oceanografica
Italy day
Transnational access (TNA) catalogue
*9 established laboratories for calibrating instruments and investigating technology.

15. Transnational access (TNA) catalogue
4 active in-situ marine observing “installations” for testing and/or validating equipment.
# Participant Installation Country Unit of access
1 UPC ID2.1 OBSEA -
Expandable Seafloor Observatory
Spain day
1 underwater coastal cabled observatory.
2 CNR ID4.1 W1M3A -
Western 1 Mediterranean Moored Multi-sensor Array
Italy day
1 fixed-point marine observatory.
3 HCMR ID6.2 HCB -
Heraklion Coastal Buoy
Greece month
1 instrumented coastal buoy.
4 NIVA ID7.1 NorSOOP/NorFerry -
1. M/S Color Fantasy,
2. M/S Trollfjord,
3. M/S Norrona FerryBoxes
Norway day
4 NIVA ID7.2 NorSOOP/NRS -
4. NIVA Research Station
Norway week
1 group of 5 FerryBox systems operating in different European sea areas.

16. Services
Virtual Access activities will offer the support for the use of cost-effective technologies and web-
based services to develop participatory monitoring projects that will enable users to conduct
excellent research and helps you to overcome potential barriers in participatory programs like:
• Technological barriers.
• Knowledge barriers.
• Community recruitment and engagement barriers.
Virtual Access and TNA-ac for participatory monitoring
Two types of MINKE Virtual Acces
Virtual Access and TNA-ac to participatory
monitoring networks based on low-cost
technologies.
Virtual Access to cloud-based services
(Citizen Observatories) to develop new
participatory projects of biodiversity
monitoring

17. TNA & VA Access Service Map
https://cutt.ly/MinkeFacilitiesMap

18. Structure

19. WP:1,2,3&4
Networking
Activities
WP5
Transnational
Access
WP:6&7
Virtual
Access
WP: 10&11 Management, communication and ethics
WP:8&9
Joint
Research
WP Structure
+

20. Networking Activities (NA)
WP1 - Building the community
WP2 - Promoting Operational Integration
through Harmonization of Procedures
WP3 - Harmonisation of Data
WP4 - Networking and Engagement with
Stakeholders

21. Transnational Access (TNA)
WP5 - Transnational Access to metrological
labs and validation facilities
Virtual Access (VA)
WP6 - Access to low-cost instrumentation
for environmental quality monitoring
WP7 - Virtual access to cloud based system
for monitoring target biological species

22. Joint Research (JRA)
WP8 - Improvement of acquisition and
validation methods for EOV global data
products
WP9 - Advanced methods for improving Data
Quality and Services

23. Partners

24. # 10 countries
# 22 organisations
PARTNERS
Short
name
Short name
CSIC ENEA
IFREMER PTB
HCMR AMU
PLOCAN UCN
UPC ANEL·LIDES
OGS LNE
CNR 52NORTH
INRIM IAAC
SHOM SYKE
NIVA JPIO
NOC EMSO- ERIC

25. CONSORTIUM
France Greece
Spain
Italy Norway United Kingdom
Germany
Chile Finland
Belgium

26. Contact
Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49
08003 Barcelona (Spain)
T. +34 93 230 95 00
project_coordination@minke.eu