Project DUME aims to change the centralised nature of digital platforms like Tidy City by:

1. Extending Solid Protocol that adeptly manages large-scale media datasets with decentralised web platforms.

2. Validating the robustness of the decentralised, user-centric features of the protocol created in 1., by implementing and testing it in Tidy City.

The challenges of implementing a protocol capable of handling vast volumes of high-resolution photographs with associated metadata for streets and roads, ready for AI model training, are manifold:

• For AI model training, swift and efficient data retrieval is essential. This involves implementing parallel data retrieval processes, batch data requests, and caching mechanisms to ensure minimal latency;
• The protocol should support rich metadata annotations, ensuring indexing mechanisms deliver quick searches and filtering based on this metadata;
• Specific AI access control ensures that AI model trainers can access the requisite data without compromising other personal or sensitive data. This involves creating specialised 'views' or 'profiles' of the data specifically curated for AI training;
• Given the dynamic nature of data (new images are added constantly), the protocol must support robust versioning mechanisms, allowing users and applications to fetch historical data versions efficiently.

DUME aims at creating a validated path not only for Tidy City's evolution but also for numerous other projects that depend on large amounts of media data, towards a decentralised digital paradigm where users maintain sovereignty over their media contributions. 

Free-LitterAT will achieve litter-free coastal communities by combining knowledge, tools and technology with pilot actions with multi-stakeholder engagement. It tackles marine litter, a transnational challenge demanding an integral approach involving prevention, monitoring and removal when feasible of the already accumulated marine litter. The overall objective is to protect biodiversity by implementing innovative approaches to prevent and reduce marine litter, with special emphasis on ALDFG and microplastics. Free LitterAt will contribute to reducing inputs, locating sources and hotspots, enhancing monitoring capabilities and raising awareness. Main outputs include guidance, tools and joint solutions for waste management, marine litter monitoring, modelling, clean-up and removal, as well as action plans transferred to the competent authorities and maritime stakeholders. The project will build on previous results and alliances, developing new solutions to be implemented through pilot actions.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

The Atlantic Whale Deal project will test innovative technologies to mitigate ship strikes. Ships and whales co-occur across coastal and open sea areas, requiring transnational cooperation between multiple stakeholders to prevent collisions and biodiversity loss.

The project aims to develop solutions to reduce ship strikes, thus enhancing carbon sequestration, given the whales’ pivotal role in ecosystem functioning.

The project will produce (acoustic, visual, and thermal) detection and localization techniques, create maps of collision risk and acoustic contamination integrated into interactive tools, evaluate the ecosystem services provided by whales, and propose a long-term sustainable plan.

Physicists, engineers, biologists, statisticians, designers, and socioeconomists from four countries of the Atlantic Area will join efforts towards effective solutions to benefit society through governmental, non-governmental, academic, and commercial bodies.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

The Ocean Equipment Acquisition project aims to achieve the following specific objectives and purposes:

a. Allow greater protection, study and monitoring of the resources of the marine protected area of the Selvagens Islands Archipelago;

b. Contribute to the integral, innovative and sustainable development of the Blue Economy of the Autonomous Region of Madeira;

c. Contribute to the objectives of prevention, protection and conservation of the marine environment defined under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MDF) aimed at protecting the marine ecosystem and ensuring the sustainability of economic activities associated with the marine environment;

d. Contribute to the development of research in the area of marine sciences.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

In a context of low awareness in AA of the benefits that the circular economy approach brings to the aquaculture and fisheries value chains, AQUAFISH0.0 will promote the stimulation of innovative and sustainable production, transformation and consumption of marine food products.

AQUAFISH0.0 will provide social acceptance and awareness among consumers and producers for the implementation of policies that reduce food losses and waste ("zero waste" philosophy) based on the Quadruple Helix.

Three main lines of action will be carried out:

- R&D: development of innovative food products from by-catches and by-products;

- Promote the best scenario for updating the administrative and institutional framework for the development of these new products;

- Raising public awareness of the circular economy approach in living marine resources for consumption and waste reduction (special attention to new generations).

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

With the aim to reduce costs, pollution and stress on these species, INTERWHALE aims to develop a near real-time (NRT) technology for off-shore data gathering and on-shore interactive data exploration, creating a simulator of responsible whale-watching.

Aligned with the UN SDG14: Life Below Water, INTERWHALE focuses on reducing the man-made stress on the marine ecosystem and has objectives to:

1 - SENSE - Using the Internet of Things (IoT) to collect the whale media (footage, acoustics and sea weather data) from sea vessels acting as data mules; It will provide more robust technology for data inquiry, challenging the current state of the art in IoT sensing and biodiversity monitoring in aquatic environments. IoT devices will be attached and compared against sea-vessel, sea glider, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV);

2 - TRANSMIT - Using the Long-Range (LoRa) open radio protocol to share the collected data from sea vessels to the on-shore in near real-time (NRT); It contributes to exploring free bandwidth, advancing the LoRa studies in aquatic surface telemetry. Experiments will compare diverse whale media payloads, ranging from raw data to acoustic and video files, using the LoRa telemetry (868 MHz);

3 - SIMULATE - Using Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), to immerse the on-shore audience with NRT interfaces depicting the collected whale media; It challenges the scarce effort of HCI with marine interfaces, allowing the remote exploration of the whales. Physical and digital environments will be compared in the wild, based on the geodesic domes and Augmented Reality (AR), portraying the whale media and studying their effect on the pro-environmental attitude of the on-shore audience.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goal (SDG):

The Atlantic Observatory will be organized as a Joint Research Unit, promoting the network of relevant marine authorities and research institutions, with strong involvement of the research communities from the mainland and the other two Portuguese Atlantic regions (Azores and Madeira). The ATLANTIC OBSERVATORY (AO) corresponds to an effort to defragment ongoing initiatives from the different research groups, mostly in cooperation with international consortia, strengthening the role of Portugal as an active player of the development of research, monitoring and governance of the Atlantic. The key idea of the ATLANTIC OBSERVATORY relies on the creation and operation of an integrated, efficient, low-cost and scalable marine observation system, focused on the Atlantic Basin, gaining from ongoing global or regional initiatives, promoting networking between stakeholders, and acting as a single access datapoint, information and services associated with the Atlantic. When operational, such observatory will be a keystone for the management of marine protected areas, the design of spatially explicit marine planning, assessing anthropogenic pressures and ultimately supporting the blue economy of the Atlantic.

Marine Biodiversity loss is continuing to decline despite current conservation efforts. Reversing the decline in biodiversity requires rapid roll out of effective conservation measures that can also enable a sustainable and resilient blue economy. Social-ecological systems-thinking and Ecosystem-Based Management are globally recognized tools to enable balanced marine development and conservation. Marine SABRES will co-design as Simple Social Ecological Systems approach (the Simple SES) to rapidly enable and upscale EBM (Ecosystem-Based Management) across Europe and abroad. Marine SABRES will set European marine management on a course to reverse biodiversity decline, it will conserve and protect biodiversity by integrating sustainable ecosystems and a resilient blue economy; enable managers to make sustainable decisions; empower citizens to engage with marine biodiversity conservation; promote sustainable development and in coastal and marine sectors. Marine SABRES is comprised of an interdisciplinary consortium including world leaders in the field of EBM and Social Ecological System distributed across Europe and focusing demonstration of practical management efforts in three Demonstration Areas (Tuscan Archipelago, the Arctic North-East Atlantic and Macaronesia) before upscaling throughout Europe and beyond.

Project Designation:		Marine SABRES - Marine Systems Approaches for Biodiversity Resilience and Ecosystem Sustainability
Program:		Horizon Europe
Start Date:		01/09/2022
End Date:		31/08/2026
Total Budget:		8 755 388,75 €
Funding:		8 755 388,75 €
ARDITI budget:		281 850,00 €
ARDITI funding:		281 850,00 €
Coordinator:		University College Cork
Partners:		University College Cork; E-Science European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research; ARDITI; Danmarks Tekniske Universitet – DTU; Ecologic Institut gemeinnützige GmbH; Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies EV – IASS; Hafrannsóknastofnun, Rannsokna - OG Radgjafarsofnun hafs og Vatna – Hafrannsóknastofnun; Fundacion AZTI; Stichting Hummel Foundation for Sustainable Solutions; Universita di Pisa – UNIPI; Stofnun Vilhjalms Stefanssonar - Stefansson Artic Institute; Klaipedos Universitetas; Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – ULPGC; Stichting Wageningen Research – WR; Aalborg Universitet – AAU; Universidade dos Açores; Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten - NWO-I; WWF Verdensnaturfonden.
Website:		https://www.marinesabres.eu/
		This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101058956.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

This initiative proposes the execution of the BIO_VALOR project by the AGROECORAM operational group, which intends to implement an integrated specialization strategy for the valorization of endogenous resources in regional fruit growing in MPB agricultural systems, and thus allow the introduction of scientific knowledge, technological development , ecological sustainability and economic profitability in the agricultural sector of RAM, and transversally, the promotion of sustainable territories located in rural areas.

In this way, the main objective of the BIO_VALOR project consists in the development of biofertilizers formulated with the combination of rhizobacteria and autochthonous microalgae for the sustainable valorization of traditional varieties of anonaceous, pome and stone fruits existing in RAM, promoting the increase of agricultural productivity, preservation of fertility of soil, conservation of agrodiversity and promotion of environmental sustainability, and mainly, the agroeconomic optimization of regional fruit growing in MPB agricultural systems.

Thus, the specific objectives of the BIO_VALOR project are the following: (1) Agronomic characterization of MPB agricultural systems based on technical-scientific knowledge derived from edaphoclimatic conditions, endogenous resources and agricultural ecosystems; (2) Biotechnological production of autochthonous rhizobacteria and microalgae for the formulation of specialized biofertilizers for regional varieties of annonaceae, pome and stone; (3) Ecological biotransformation of agricultural residues for the formulation of nutrient-rich organic substrates; (4) In situ monitoring of biofertilizer application results and obtaining predictive data for the development of an agronomically oriented dynamic biofertilization approach for regional fruit growing in MPB farming systems; and (5) Increased transfer of scientific knowledge and technological development through cooperation between scientific institutions, companies and associations of the operational group for the introduction of new products, methods and techniques with a high degree of innovation in the agro-food sector of RAM.

ARDITI, as the initiative's management entity, is responsible for the technical coordination of the BIO_VALOR project and the respective organization of activities and tasks, as well as for communication between partners, preparation of reports, monitoring of the results obtained and subsequent dissemination in the media and scientific events, being also the entity responsible for the participation of ISOPLEXIS at the University of Madeira.

Thus, ARDITI-ISOPLEXIS is responsible for collecting agronomic data from the MPB agricultural systems in RAM and for carrying out the respective technical-scientific analyzes for monitoring edaphoclimatic conditions, characterizing endogenous resources and identifying agricultural ecosystems, including the characterization of the microbiome autochthonous. ARDITI-ISOPLEXIS also participates in the biotransformation of agricultural residues and in the in situ monitoring of the results obtained in the application of biofertilizers in MPB agricultural systems and by obtaining predictive data that allow an agronomically oriented biofertilization.

ACOESTE is responsible for the selection of regional agricultural producers of annonaceae, pome fruit and stone fruit, and also for the respective technical coordination of experimental field trials in MPB agricultural systems. ACOESTE also participates in the characterization of the autochthonous microbiome and in the in situ monitoring of the results obtained in the application of biofertilizers in MPB agricultural systems.

AGROFOOD TECHIS is responsible for the biotechnological production of autochthonous rhizobacteria, biotransformation of agricultural waste for the production of organic substrates and formulation of specialized biofertilizers. AGROFOOD TECHIS also participates in the characterization of the autochthonous microbiome and in the in situ monitoring of the results obtained in the application of biofertilizers in MPB agricultural systems and in obtaining predictive data that allow an agronomically oriented biofertilization.

PHYTOALGAE is responsible for the biotechnological production of indigenous microalgae with agronomic potential, and also participates in the characterization of the indigenous microbiome and the formulation of specialized biofertilizers.

With the BIO_VALOR project, the AGROECORAM operational group intends to fill in the lack of scientific knowledge and technological development in the regional agricultural sector, namely in MPB agricultural systems, through the development of a biotechnological process for the integrated production of biofertilizers for the preservation of soil fertility and plant robustness in these agricultural systems, significantly increasing agricultural productivity without compromising ecological sustainability. The biotechnological process of production of ecological biofertilizers is based on the integration of knowledge.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goal (SDG):

TRIDENT aims to contribute to the sustainable exploitation of seabed mineral resources, by developing a reliable, transparent and cost-effective system for prediction and continuous environmental impact monitoring of exploration and exploitation activities in the deep sea. This system will develop and integrate technology and novel solutions to operate autonomously in remote areas under extreme conditions, and provide real-time data to permitting and supervising authorities. The effective monitoring and inspection system to be developed will comply with international and national legal frameworks. TRIDENT will identify all relevant physical, chemical, geological and biological parameters to be measured at the sea surface, mid-water and seabed. The project will also identify gaps in existing data sets and develop solutions to address them. These are essential steps to develop statistically robust environmental baselines, establish reliable indicators of good environmental status and define thresholds for significant impact, enabling the standardization of tools and methods. The project consortium will subsequently develop and test an integrated system of static and mobile observatory platforms equipped with the latest automatic sensors and samplers to measure environmental parameters on mining and reference areas at representative spatial and temporal scales. To support quick actions for preventing serious harm to the environment, the system will implement high-capacity data handling pipelines able to collect, transmit, process and display monitoring data in near real-time. Finally, we will provide technological and systemic solutions for forecasting potential environmental impacts by using the developed monitoring and mitigation methods.

Project Designation:		TRIDENT - HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01-02 — Monitoring and supervising system for exploration and future exploitation activities in the deep sea (RIA)
Program:		Horizon Europe
Start Date:		01/01/2023
End Date:		31/12/2027
Total Budget:		11 845 429,48 €
Funding:		11 845 429,48 €
ARDITI budget:		26 306,00 €
ARDITI funding:		26 306,00 €
Coordinator:		INESC TEC
Partners:		INESC TEC; Agora P.S.V.D.; Alseamar; ARDITI; Cintal; Stichting Deltares European Multidisciplinary Seafloorand Water; Column Observatory - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Emso Eric); Emepc; Forum Oceano - Associacao Da Economia Do Mar; Greenov-Ites; Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera IP; La Palma Research Centre Sl; Marine Institute; National Oceanography Centre; Norce Norwegian Research Centre as Consorcio para El Diseño, Construcción; Equipamiento Y Explotación de la Plataforma Oceanica de Canarias; The Queen's University Of Belfast; University Of Limerick; Universidad Politecnica De Madrid; University College Cork - National University Of Ireland, Cork; Wsense Srl; Hr Wallingford Limited; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas; Mercator Ocean; Time.Lex; Global E-Sustainability Initiative.
Website:		https://deepseatrident.eu/
		This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101091959.

The project aims to investigate why and how plastic impacts the marine environment, particularly in the deep waters of the mesopelagic layer. This study will evaluate the plastics' acoustic characteristics, compare them to the acoustic features of the natural prey of deep-diving predators, and propose mitigation measures in terms of plastic composition and structure. Ultimately, the project will contribute to mitigating marine pollution and its impacts on living aquatic organisms and communities.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

The SIH - Smart Islands Hub is a digital innovation hub (DIH) that aims to promote the digital empowerment and inclusion of the Madeiran population and encourage the adoption of advanced digital technologies by SMEs and public sector organizations based in this region.

The Smart Islands Hub was officially recognized as part of the national network of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) within the scope of the Portugal Digital strategy and obtained the Seal of Excellence in its application to the European network (EDIH) within the scope of the Digital Europe strategy.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

The GOCORE – GOverning COMmunity REsilience project is an Inter-Regional Cooperation project that aims to empower local communities in remote areas and far from decision-making centres, showing relevant European Policies to benefit the population from them. ARDITI's participation in this project focuses on Digital Transformation and taking it to rural and remote areas of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. This is also one of the objectives of the SIH - Smart Islands HUB project, a project that ARDITI is developing and which will have GOCORE acting in a complementary way. The idea is based on the creation of “creative living labs” in each municipality of RAM involving multidisciplinary teams to support local ideas to solve real local problems through Digital innovation.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

The project CLIMAREST: Coastal Climate Resilience and Marine Restoration Tools for the Arctic Atlantic Basin integrates multiple expertise into a holistic approach that aims to develop a flexible overarching toolbox designed to establish guidelines for ecosystem restoration and to enhance climate resilience in coastal communities. The concept is to develop, test, and optimise a modular toolbox that integrates expert knowledge, scientific information, multilevel stakeholder and community involvement, ecosystem service improvement analysis, cost-benefit analysis, priority of actions, and custom-designed protocols for restoring and monitoring multiple coastal habitats. The toolbox framework will have common and specific tools that will be tested, optimised, and demonstrated in five different ecosystems across a latitudinal gradient of the Arctic-Atlantic basin, ranging from the high-Arctic Svalbard (79° N) in the north to the Madeira archipelago (33° N) in the south. In Madeira, project CLIMAREST will leverage opportunistic datasets from the existing mobile applications and digital platform tools for web-based surveys, allowing the reach out to a wide stakeholder audience, enabling citizen and stakeholder participation in monitoring of restoration activities and scenarios.

Project Designation:		CLIMAREST - Coastal Climate Resilience and Marine Restoration Tools for the Arctic Atlantic basin
Program:		Horizon Europe
Start Date:		01/12/2022
End Date:		30/11/2025
Total Budget:		8 701 780,25 €
Funding:		8 500 000,00 €
ARDITI budget:		797 375,00 €
ARDITI funding:		797 375,00 €
Coordinator:		Sintef Ocean AS
Partners:		Sintef Ocean AS (NO); Stiftelsen Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning Nina (NO); Institut Francais de Recherche pour L'exploitation de La Mer (FR); ARDITI - Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação (PT); Wavec/Offshore Renewables - Centro de Energia Offshore (PT); National University of Ireland Galway (IE); Universidad de Malaga (ES); Universidad de Alicante (ES); Universidad de Vigo (ES); Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet NTNU (NO); Meteorologisk Institutt (NO); Universita Politecnica Delle Marche (IT); Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II (NO); Seaboost (FR); Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DK); Aarhus Universitet (DK).
Website:		https://climarest.eu/
		This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101093865.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

O MITIExcell melhorará a capacidade da ARDITI em investigação e desenvolvimento tecnológico, ampliando o potencial humano e promovendo uma massa crítica de investigadores com experiência interdisciplinar em interação homem-computador (HCI) procurando investigar e desenvolver soluções inovadoras humanísticas e tecnológicas, que aproveitem as vantagens do posicionamento geográfico ultraperiférico da Madeira na promoção da justiça social, sustentabilidade ambiental e motivação das comunidades pelas novas tecnologias e redes sociais. Também trabalhará em ferramentas de análise de tendências em turismo e marketing, complementadas com experiência transmídia. O projeto de três anos irá alavancar parcerias internacionais com a Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas em Austin e University College London, no aspecto de I&D.

O principal objetivo deste projeto é fortalecer a educação especulativa em design, coletando e trocando conhecimentos e experiências existentes, enquanto desenvolvemos novos métodos nesse campo emergente de design. Ao criar uma parceria estratégica transnacional, construída em diferentes contextos e experiências em toda a Europa, ele criará uma estrutura para o intercâmbio de idéias e abordagens e desenvolverá um conjunto de ferramentas de recursos para a educação especulativa em design. No contexto das condições sociais, tecnológicas, de mídia e econômicas que mudam rapidamente, um número crescente de designers está desenvolvendo novas abordagens para o design. Esses "novos designers" agem nas fronteiras das disciplinas tradicionalmente definidas, obscurecendo as distinções entre elas. Em suas pesquisas, esses novos designers se envolvem com diversos campos da ciência, principalmente ciências da computação e engenharia, sociologia, psicologia, arquitetura, biotecnologia, nanotecnologia etc., com o objetivo de refletir criticamente sobre o desenvolvimento e o papel da tecnologia na sociedade. 

Plataforma para o desenvolvimento das PME (Pequenas e Médias Empresas) da Macaronésia através da utilização das tecnologias da Internet do Futuro.

Objetivos:

• Melhorar a competitividade das PME;
• Criação de condições para a internacionalização de empresas;
• Transferência de conhecimento;
• Implementação das tecnologias futuras de Internet;
• Internacionalização FI-MAC.

IDL - Instituto Dom Luiz is a Research Center dedicated to Geosciences and a permanent Institute of the University of Lisbon. The IDL was founded in 1853 and has continuously contributed to different areas of Geosciences. In its early years, IDL was mainly dedicated to Meteorology and Geophysics around the still operational Observatório do Clima e Seismologia de Lisboa. Since 2004, IDL has integrated Geology and Geodesy into its interests. In the last decade, the IDL has grown substantially with the integration of young researchers in areas such as Oceanography, Marine Geosciences and Renewable Energies.

IDL research is aligned around three thematic lines “Climate Change”, “Solid Earth Dynamics” and “Energy and Land Resources”. The Iberian Peninsula and the enlarged Portuguese continental shelf constitute natural laboratories for world-class Geoscience studies within these thematic lines, addressing the sustainable use of energy, water and raw materials, the management of natural hazards, taking into account environmental and social conditions, and the opening of a new ocean frontier.

IDL is dedicated to fundamental but also experimental and observational research and the development of new applications of knowledge in Geosciences. Research in Fundamental Geosciences, in Atmospheric, Solid Earth or Oceanic processes, related to the special nature of the interactions between those systems that occur in the Northeastern Atlantic Frontier System, one of the 4 regions of the world, or close to the Atlantic Ridge, is especially promising. Both systems are remarkably active and affect large areas of the world.

IDL is directly responsible for one of the new FCT Doctoral Programs in Earth System Science (EARTHSYSTEMS) and is a partner of another FCT Doctoral Program in Sustainable Energy Systems (SES, MIT-Portugal). These two programs cover the main research topics of the IDL and provide a continuous flow of PhD students and a strong interaction with other Portuguese and international research groups. Scientific Objectives: The IDL aims to be relevant not only to fundamental Earth System research but also to applications and technologies that relate science to key 21st-century societal concerns: predicting and adapting to climate change and other important natural hazards and establishing an environmentally sustainable supply of raw materials, water and energy.

The fusion of Geoscience research with applications and technologies is the key to both the transfer of knowledge to society and the training of a new generation of scientists and engineers.

Research Groups:

• Climate Change, atmosphere-land-ocean processes and extremes;
• Earth Surface Processes;
• Solid Earth dynamics, hazards and resources;
• Continental margins and the deep ocean frontier;
• Energy transition.

ARNET aims to increase the excellence, impact and applicability of scientific production and results related to marine and freshwater research, strengthening national and international cooperation and partnerships (researchers, academics, administration and private companies) to increase success in obtaining competitive funding, promote scientific work, train high-level scientists and leverage its role as a key institution in aquatic and environmental matters, thus orienting ARNET towards the pursuit of the five (5) objectives of the subordinate National Scientific and Technological Policy to five thematic areas of the Research and Innovation Agenda: 1. Agrifood, Forests and Biodiversity, 2. Climate Change, 3. Circular Economy, 4. Space and Earth Observation and 5. Mar.

Conceptually, five specific types of challenges were identified as central themes for the ARNET intervention: scientific, environmental, health (environmental health), economic and social. For each one, a specific objective was established, with the capacity to support and monitor public policies: 1 - Support the development of scientific and technological approaches for the sustainable use of marine, freshwater, estuarine and marine freshwater ecosystems; 2 - Deepen knowledge about the functioning of estuarine and freshwater marine ecosystems, addressing changes that threaten ecological resilience and environmental sustainability; 3 - To promote the good ecological and healthy state of the seas and oceans, estuaries and river basins; 4 - Explore solutions based on biotechnology and nature to encourage better management of aquatic resources; 5 - Promote models of participatory governance and encourage the emergence of a literate oceanic society.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):

The protocol aims to establish cooperation between the Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas, the Regional Government of Madeira, the University of Madeira and ARDITI, with a view to developing, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, a research project of excellence with the aim of applying and developing robotic systems, remote sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as "AUVs", and autonomous underwater vehicles (commonly referred to as "UAVs"), for environmental surveillance and monitoring, particularly focused on the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ of RAM).

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goal (SDG):

The commitment to knowledge constitutes a central aim of the program of the XXI Constitutional Government and the National Reform Program, reflecting the importance that scientific employment assumes in Portuguese society. Investment in knowledge, as demonstrated in the last forty years in Portugal, is an essential pillar for the success of the scientific and technological development of a country and must be translated into a public policy unequivocally oriented towards stimulating the growing affirmation and recognition of advanced qualifications. and the employment of human resources at the national and international level, in line with the importance of teaching and research activities. Attracting and retaining qualified human resources, including encouraging the opening of employment opportunities and the development of professional career paths for doctorates, together with the promotion of the rejuvenation of human resources of the entities that make up the National Scientific and Technological System (SCTN), are fundamental purposes of Portugal's commitment to knowledge. This project funds the hiring of 2 PhD researchers for ARDITI.

A necessidade de Abordagens Baseadas em Ecossistemas (EBA) padronizadas que atendem aos requisitos do MSFD e as necessidades práticas das autoridades competentes são reconhecidas há muito tempo. Tal como salientado no relatório da Comissão sobre o primeiro ciclo de implementação do DTSM, os Estados-Membros da UE lutaram para desenvolver abordagens de execução inter-comparáveis ​​e regionalmente harmonizadas, e a aplicação de estratégias marinhas tem sido principalmente a nível nacional. Para o primeiro ciclo, esta falta de harmonização regional constituiu um obstáculo à aplicação efetiva da diretiva, em especial do artigo 3.º, n.º 5, ad 5, que determina a determinação sub-regional do bom estado ambiental (BIG).
Territórios marinhos na Europa podem se estender até 350 milhas náuticas a partir da costa e a profundidades de 5000m. O tamanho, a inacessibilidade, a natureza dinâmica e a variabilidade desses sistemas inevitavelmente resultam em incerteza sobre a condição do sistema. Essa falta de conhecimento completo é um conceito fundamental na EBA adaptativa. Reconhecendo o tremendo desafio de medir, monitorar e atender o GES nessas áreas, a decisão revisada da comissão sobre descritores ea estratégia comum de implementação do Grupo de Coordenação da Estratégia Marinha enfatizaram o papel das abordagens baseadas no risco para permitir a eficiência regional e regional. implementação sub-regional do DQEM e “concentrar os seus esforços nas principais pressões antropogénicas que afectam as suas águas” (considerando 6) e estabelecer limiares “com base no princípio da precaução, reflectindo o risco potencial para o ambiente marinho” ( N.º 1 do artigo 4.º) e o conceito de risco é explícito na própria directiva (considerando 27 e n.º 4 do artigo 14.º).
RAGES reúne autoridades públicas de quatro Estados-Membros da UE (Irlanda, França, Espanha e Portugal) com responsabilidade partilhada pela implementação regional e sub-regional do MSFD na região do Atlântico Nordeste, juntamente com especialistas em análise de risco (INERIS), e especialização técnica em medição e monitorização ecológica (MaREI, IMPA, ARDITI, FCUL) para cumprir os objectivos de “apoiar o desenvolvimento da implementação operacional de indicadores regionais, listas de elementos, valores limite e regras de integração para implementar o GES”. Esta apresentação é feita conjuntamente entre os quatro Estados-Membros da UE e as suas autoridades competentes em matéria de DQF, que partilham as três sub-regiões, e está de acordo com as duas prioridades indicadas no convite à apresentação de propostas: “Apoio ao desenvolvimento e à implementação operacional dos programas regionais e sub - indicadores regionais, listas de elementos, valores limiares e regras de integração para implementar a Decisão GES ”e“ Colmatar o fosso entre a Macaronésia e o Oceano Atlântico NE - rumo a uma estratégia coordenada ”(Macaronésia- Prioridade 2). padrões na gestão de risco (ISO 31000) com as etapas obrigatórias do processo de implementação do MSFD, a RAGES utilizará dados e informações dos programas nacionais existentes do 1º ciclo e iniciativas regionais (ex. Avaliação Intermediária da OSPAR) para desenvolver e promover uma implementação eficiente e rentável. , abordagem replicável e transparente para a implementação comum do MSFD no Atlântico Nordeste.

Este projeto está alinhado com os seguintes Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS):

The Associated Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS) was founded in 2001 to conduct basic and applied research in engineering technologies relevant to industrial applications and societal challenges. LARSyS contributes to new research challenges due to the following:

A solid scientific background in Systems, Data Science and Learning;
An interdisciplinary social-technical systems (STS) approach combines analytical tools and engineering methods with social science and design tools and research methods;
A real-world, app-driven motivation for social issues defined along thematic lines;
An engagement with the socio-economic implications of problems and solutions, leading to sustainable development goals through collaborations with industry, public policy recommendations and spin-off companies.

MARE - Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente - is a centre for scientific research, technological development and innovation, with an integrative and holistic approach, concentrating a wide range of skills, capabilities and means, with a territorial implementation of national scope, which develops its research activities oriented to the problems and challenges of society, in close partnership with national and international research centres.

It is a multipolar centre consisting of seven poles, six in Portuguese higher education institutions University of Coimbra (MARE-UCoimbra), Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (MARE-IPLeiria), University of Lisbon (MARE-ULisboa), New University of Lisbon (MARE-NOVA), ISPA - University Institute (MARE-ISPA), University of Évora (MARE-UÉvora), and one in the archipelago of Madeira (MARE-Madeira).

MARE has technical and scientific expertise to address all aquatic ecosystems, including river basins and adjacent areas, estuaries, coastal and oceanic marine ecosystems.

This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

O projecto CIVITAS-DESTINATIONS enquadra-se na iniciativa CIVITAS 2016-2020, reúne parceiros de 11 países europeus, aos quais se junta ainda a China, e é financiado diretamente pela Comissão Europeia no âmbito do programa "H2020-EU.3.4. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport", na call "MOBILITY for GROWTH 2014-2015 - MG-5.5a-2015 - Demonstrating and testing innovative solutions for cleaner and better urban transport and mobility". Foi uma das 3 candidaturas aprovadas entre as cerca de 40 submetidas.

O coordenador europeu do projeto é a empresa Horários do Funchal (HF) e, a nível regional são ainda parceiros, a ARDITI (Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação), a Câmara Municipal do Funchal (CMF), a AREAM (Agência Regional de Energia e Ambiente da Madeira) e a Secretaria Regional da Economia Turismo e Cultura (SRETC). Os restantes parceiros europeus são da França, Itália, Espanha, Chipre, Malta, Grécia, Alemanha, Reino Unido, Roménia e Bélgica. As cidades envolvidas são todas insulares e são o Funchal (Madeira, PT), Las Palmas (Canárias, ES), Limassol (CY), Portoferrio + Rio Marina (Elba, IT), Rethymnon (Creta, GR) e La Valletta (MA).

A ARDITI participa em 4 medidas regionais, liderando duas delas: uma no âmbito do "Smart sensing/metering and user generated content to improve planning and mobility services – MAD2.2" e outra no âmbito da "Gamification as a way to induce behavioural change in Mobility – MAD6.1". Para além desta coordenação a Agência participa ainda em outras duas medidas subordinadas aos temas:  "Smart PT traveller information service – MAD7.3" e "Green credits: A Business Model for Mobility, Sustainability and Tourism – MAD6.2".

O projecto teve o seu início a 01/09/2016, tem uma duração prevista de 48 meses (4 anos) e um orçamento total de 4,5 Milhões de Euros para os parceiros regionais (Madeira), com um co-financiamento médio da Comissão Europeia de 89% (4 Milhões de Euros). A este projecto corresponde o grant agreement Nº 689031 (nº do contrato de projeto com a Comissão Europeia).

Para além do CIVITAS-DESTINATIONS, nesta call foram aprovados apenas mais 2 projetos de “living lab” desta natureza, sendo que os outros dois são o CIVITAS-PORTIS e o CIVITAS-ECCENTRIC (mais informação em http://www.civitas.eu).