EurOcean Full Members are European marine research, innovation and entrepreneurship, funding and outreach organisations who own and operate a plethora of marine research infrastructures ranging from research vessels to Aquaculture facilities.
WISE-Marine is a portal and infrastructure for sharing information with the marine community on the marine environment at European level. Focusing on the state of the marine environment at the European scale, WISE Marine shows the information and...
The Acqua Alta oceanographic platform of the National Research Counci (CNR)l has been operating in the Northern Adriatic since March 1970. It is located 8 nautical miles off the coast in front of Venice, on a depth of 16 meters. Equipped with the...
The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is a pan-European research infrastructure which provides harmonised and high-precision scientific data on carbon cycle and greenhouse gas budget and perturbations. The ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC...
The oceanographic RV Dallaporta, operated by CNR, carries out advanced studies in the field of scientific fishing, marine biology and the marine environment in general, has a length of 35 meters and reaches a maximum speed of 14 knots. The ship...
RV “G.O. Sars” was delivered in 2003 and is owned by IMR the Institute of Marine Research (75%) and the University of Bergen (25%). The main operating areas are the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea. The vessel has also carried out...
The Odas Italia 1, operated by CNR, is a weather-oceanographic buoy. It represents a unique example of a marine post-high altitude laboratory. The structure, located in the open sea 40 miles from the coast in the Ligurian-Tuscan and Provençal...
The Research Vessel Kronprins Haakon, operated by IMR has been built to operate in challenging ice conditions, which means it can go further north and south than any other Norwegian research vessel. It is equipped with the very latest high-tech...
The W1-M3A observing system is one of the most important infrastructures of CNR and it is part of the network of deep ocean European observatories. The open sea laboratory is moored in the middle of the Ligurian Sea, inside the area known as the...
In 2016, after a severe upgrading, the former IMR Research Vessel "Dr. Fridtjof Nansen" changed name till ”Kristine Bonnevie” – named after the first female marine biologist in Norway, professor Kristine Bonnevie (born in 1872).