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Development of the Constanta Space Technologies Competence Centre

COSMOMAR

Abstract:

The aim of the project is the development and implementation of the Constanta Space Technologies Competence Centre Dedicated to the Marine and Coastal Regions Sustainable Development in spatial technologies for the South-East Region of Romania, having the use of remote sensing data as main application area, towards monitoring and rapid assessment of the marine and coastal environment state, development of environmental friendly bio-technologies and materials with applicability in spatial programs, as well for support of local and regional, small, medium and big enterprises development in accessing opportunities of the EU spatial programs

Sea Basin(s):
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Black Sea
Country:
Romania
Application in MSP:
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Applied in an MSP process
Type of Issue:
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Environment aspects
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Safety aspects
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Social aspects
Type of practice:
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Other
Stage of MSP cycle:
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Vision and aims
Cross-border / trans-national aspect:
Yes
Coherence with other processes:
Integrated Coastal Zone Management
Key words:
Black Sea region
Competence Center for MSP
ICZM
MPA
Source / Links:

http://www.cosmomar.ro/

Implementation context

The implementation context is related ROSA’s (Romanian Space Agency, as part of ESA) coordination of the Research, Development and Innovation Program – Spatial Technology and Advanced Research - STAR, approved on the base of the Law no. 262/2011 for ratification of the Accord between Romania and ESA/European Agency)

Cosmomar Project is a founded project of Star/Program within Competence Center in Spatial Technologies framework, having as main goal the capacity building and international visibility of science and technologies existent at national level, together with the identification of new technological niches within ESA’s programs, especially those of EO/(including Copernicus Program).

Aspects/Objectives

The overall goal of the project is the development of a Competence Center in spatial technologies for the South-East Region of Romania, having the use of space technologies and remote sensing data as main application area, towards monitoring and rapid assessment of the marine and coastal environment state, development of environmental friendly bio-technologies and materials with applicability in spatial programs, as well for support of local and regional small, medium and big enterprises development in accessing opportunities of the EU spatial programs.

Strategic Objectives

  • Collecting, archiving and preservation of oceanographic data, in order to maximize their use;
  • Increasing the availability of oceanographic data for a big group of users;
  • Promoting the exchange of information on national and international level;
  • Transferring the data to different users;
  • Transferring the data from different oceanographic data sources;
  • Providing data to implement EU policies on marine field.
  • Interdisciplinary Collective of specialists for Consultancy, Expertise and Dissemination Activities

Method

Methodologies of research infrastructure and Human Resource development through several Pilot projects progresses are included in the Work Packages, comprising UAV applications in high resolution EO/RS technologies and its coastal applications for consultancy capacities enhancement, educational and dissemination activities.

PILOT PROJECTS

  • Development of fuel cells based on urea and robust MEAs (Membrane Electrode Assemblies), helping to improve knowledge of microbial fuel cell technology that will have several applications in the space sector
  • Development of facilities of "clean room" necessary to develop the devices and procedures for space applications
  • Center Initialization related to the selection, training and testing of technologies monitoring/coastal surveillance remote sensing using AUVs/drones, in order to implement ICZM and marine EU strategies

Main outputs/results

The main results of project Cosmomar are related to the development of the centre arrangements, construction & renovation: 4 rooms plus annexes, circa 100sqm with possibility of extension to 200mp, together with testing equipment and technologies within the pilot studies and connection with the EU network of NODCs through RO-NODC, and also the development of new activities for down-streaming services provided by COPERNICUS.

One of the main results of the project is the interdisciplinary consultancy/expertise/training collective which develops into a cooperation and networking platform, including participation in two main regional/national clusters.

Transferability

The forecast and WEB GIS applications can be extended with additional data for different environmental applications, at different spatial and temporal scales.

Contact Person

Razvan Mateescu

National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa” Constanta

Department of Oceanography, Marine and Coastal Engineering

+40 241 543288

+40 241 540870 ext 124

razvan_doruatyahoo.com (razvan_doru[at]yahoo[dot]com)

Responsible entity

National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa” Constanta, Romania

Funding source

Project financed by ROSA through STAR Program - Session 2013