SEAMPHONI
Advancing area-based management tools to accelerate the protection and restoration of marine biodiversity across the European sea basins.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Strengthening Ecosystem-based Assessment and Monitoring for Protected Habitats in Offshore areas and Newly Identified MPAs.
SEAMPHONI is dedicated to bringing visibility and safeguarding the vast and largely unprotected offshore marine areas. Current approaches to offshore biodiversity mapping are highly dependent on research vessels and are therefore costly and do not allow for continuous monitoring. SEAMPHONI is structured to promote the testing, coupling, and validation of three innovative monitoring solutions (environmental DNA (eDNA), acoustics, and imaging) and to build a shared observing system for scientists, decision-makers, MPA managers, and citizens in the form of an Intelligent Marine Digital Twin interoperable with the European Digital Twin Ocean.
Project duration
June 2025 – May 2029 (48 months)
Project call
HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01
Total project budget
€ 12.100.583
PROJECT PARTNERS
SEAMPHONI is a consortium of 24 project partners, including SUBMARINER Network and its member SDU and associate member GEOMAR.
- Universitat Politencia de Catalunya
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- University College Dublin
- Syddansk Universitet
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Network for Blue Growth
- Norce Norwegian Research Centre AS
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft Fur Naturforschung
- ARDITI - agencia Regional Para O Desenvolvimento
- WWF European Policy Programme
- ANP - Associacao Natureza Portugal
- Fundacao Eurocean
- DIN Deutsches Institut Fuer Normung EV
- Tecnicas Y Servicios De Ingenieria S.L.
- SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EWIV
- GOLEM
- IMC - Industrial Management Consulting Slovakia
- Quiet Oceans
- Universidad de Alicante Oceans
- Universite de la Reunion
- Greenov-ITES
- Associación EDMAKTUB
- Turkiye Bilimsel Ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu
- BRUCOOP
- Light and Move B.V.