Partners

SeaDataCloud is undertaken by a large and ambitious consortium which brings together 56 partners and 5 sub-contractors from 32 countries, bordering the European seas plus Australia, comprising 43 data centres and 18 institutes or international bodies that bring additional expertise in IT, INSPIRE, OGC, ISO, W3C standards and cloud and HPC facilities.
The core partners are National Oceanographic Data Centres and marine data centres of major marine research institutes that have built up and are operating the present SeaDataNet infrastructure for marine and ocean data management. They are highly skilled and actively engaged for decades in ocean and marine data management for in situ and remote sensing data for oceans, marine and coastal waters.

Almost all partners from the previous SeaDataNet projects are involved in SeaDataCloud, because most are established data centres and strong supporters and advocates of the SeaDataNet infrastructure.
The SeaDataNet consortium has been expanded with 3 other data centres (SYKE, UkrSCES, CNRS) and with 5 computing centres from the EUDAT consortium (CSC, DKRZ, CINECA, STFC, and GRNET) for their e-infrastructure expertise. EUDAT is a European network of computing infrastructures that develop and operate a common framework for managing scientific data spanning all European research data centres and data repositories and providing an interoperable layer of common data services.

Extra partners have joined with specific IT expertise in SWE (52°North), visualisation services (Deltares), and user interfaces and dashboards (ETT) and with scientific expertise (among them 4 are new partners CNRS, UiB, GEOMAR, and UniBO) who represent important lead customers, such as science community, EMODnet, Copernicus Marine Environmental Monitoring Service (CMEMS), and international scientific programmes such as SOCAT, ARGO, and others.

Partners

	Partner	Country	Link to Organisation
1	IFREMER / SISMER - Scientific Information Systems for the SEA	France
2	MARIS / Marine Information Service	Netherlands
3	BODC / British Oceanographic Data Centre	United Kingdom
4	BSH / German Oceanographic DataCentre (NODC)	Germany
5	SMHI / Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute	Sweden
6	IEO / Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO)	Spain
7	HCMR / Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HNODC)	Greece
8	OGS / OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography	Italy
9	RIHMI-WDC / World Data Centre (RIHMI-WDC) National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC)	Russian Federation
10	ENEA / ENEA Centro Ricerche Ambiente Marino	Italy
11	INGV / Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia	Italy
12	METU-IMS / Institute of Marine Sciences	Turkey
13	AWI / Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar- and Marine Research	Germany
14	ULG / University of Liege, GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (ULg-GHER)	Belgium
15	IMR / Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMD)	Norway
16	AU-BIOS / Aarhus University - Bioscience	Denmark
17	ICES / International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)	Denmark
18	EU-JRC / JRC - Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)	Italy
19	MI / Marine Institute	Ireland
20	IHPT / Hydrographic Institute	Portugal
21	NIOZ / Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research	Netherlands
22	RBINS / Belgian Marine Data Centre (RBINS-ODNATURE-BMDC)	Belgium
23	VLIZ / Flanders Marine Institute	Belgium
24	MFRI / Marine and Freshwater Research Institute	Iceland
25	FMI / Finnish Meteorological Institute	Finland
26	IMGW / Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Maritime Branch in Gdynia	Poland
27	MSI / Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology	Estonia
28	LHEI / Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology	Latvia
29	SIO-RAS / P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS	Russian Federation
30	IO-BAS / Bulgarian National Oceanographic Data Centre(BGODC)	Bulgaria
31	NIMRD / National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"	Romania
32	TSU-DNA / Centre of Relations with UNESCO Oceanological Research Centre and GeoDNA	Georgia
33	IOF / Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	Croatia
34	NIB / NIBMarine Biology Station	Slovenia
35	UOM / International Ocean Institute - Malta Operational Centre (University Of Malta) / Physical Oceanography Unit	Malta
36	IOLR / Israel Marine Data Center (ISRAMAR)	Israel
37	CNR / ISAC - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (Rome) CNR, Institute for atmospheric pollution (CNR - IIA) CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per lo Studio del MARe	Italy
38	IO PAN / Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
39	CSIC / Marine Technology Unit. Mediterranean Marine and Environmental Research Centre	Spain
40	Deltares / Deltares	Netherlands
41	SYKE / Finnish Environment Institute	Finland
42	UkrSCES / Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea	Ukraine
43	ETT / ETT S.p.a.	Italy
44	EuroGOOS / EuroGOOS AISBL	Belgium
45	DKRZ / The German Climate Computing Center	Germany
46	CINECA / CINECA	Italy
47	CSC / CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.	Finland
48	STFC / Science and Technology Facilities Council	United Kingdom
49	GRNET / Greek Research and Technology Network	Greece
50	UiB / University of Bergen	Norway
51	GEOMAR / GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel	Germany
52	52°North / 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH	Germany
53	SHOM / Shom	France
54	ORION / ORION	Cyprus
55	CNRS / Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography Oceanic and Continental Environments and Paleoenvironments (EPOC) CNRS / Biological Station of ROSCOFF	France
56	UNIBO / University of Bologna, Environmental Science, Laboratory SINCEM, Ravenna	Italy

Sub-contractors

Organisation	Country	Link to Organisation
IOC/IODE - International Oceanographic Commission - International Oceanographic Data and information Exchange	International
INSTM- Institut National des Sciences et Techniques de la Mer	Tunisia
JCOMMOPS - Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology in situ Observing Platform Support	International
IMBK - Institute of Marine Biology of Kotor	Montenegro
CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation	Australia