FutureMARES is an EU-funded research project examining the relations between climate change, marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Our activities are designed around three Nature-based Solutions (NBS):

Effective Restoration (NBS1)

Effective Conservation (NBS2)

Sustainable Harvesting of Marine Resources (NBS3)

SocioCoast Project: Enhancing the promotion of beaches and coastal areas and problem reporting through crowd sourcing activities.

ECCO Project: Researching the Effects of Climate Change and Ocean acidification on marine gastropods. ECCO Project will offer innovative scientific knowledge which can be used to put forward policies and regulations in order to achieve a better environmental management and protection of our oceans. The project aims to address the requests of policy stakeholders and decision makers to “minimize the impacts of ocean acidification through further research and enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels”.

The EMODnet Biology data portal provides free access to temporal and spatial distribution data of marine species and species traits from all European regional seas. It is built upon WoRMS and EurOBIS, both components of the central Species Information Backbone.

SYNTHESYS+, synthesis of sistematic resources, brings together the European branches of the global natural science organisations (GBIF, TDWG, GGBN and CETAF) with an unprecedented number of collections, to integrate, innovate and internationalise our efforts. LifeWatchGreece is involved in WP7. Funding: EC, H2020

ENVRI-FAIR is the connection of the ESFRI Cluster of Environmental RIs (ENVRI) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The goal is that all participating RIs build FAIR data services to enhance researchers' efficiency & productivity, support innovation, enable data/knowledge based decisions & connect ENVRI Cluster to EOSC. LifeWatch ERIC coordinates WP11 (implementation in Biodiversity/Ecosystems subdomain) & co-coordinates WP6 (training). VLIZ (LifeWatch Belgium) participates in and represents the marine domain for LifeWatch ERIC.