Submerse

The SUBMERSE project is characterized as a consortium of European and global partners, supported by the European Union's Horizon Europe program, which launched in early May the "SUBMarine cablEs for ReSearch and Exploration" (SUBMERSE) program, aiming to make available to the scientific community, civil society and industry, data from continuous observations on several submarine fiber optic cables, using a standardized technological configuration on a continental scale.

The project's main goal is to create a Research Infrastructure that will, for the first time, allow researchers to perform a variety of observations in multiple geographic locations, providing FAIR(Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) compliant datasets in near real time using machine learning.

The project will build a research and proof-of-concept instrument deployed in the North and South Atlantic and the Mediterranean. This new world-class research instrument integrates the existing NREN and EPOS (European Plate Observing System) infrastructures, as well as the Copernicus Marine service of three European nations, as well as pan-European and pan-American institutions, to disseminate SOP and DAS data, in accordance with FAIR principles, collected from the same submarine optical telecommunication fibers already installed and active.

The SUBMERSE project will be coordinated by Efis Centre (European Centre for Future Innovation Systems) and implemented with the support of a consortium of 24 partners, including RedCLARA, which together represent great strength and experience in the implementation and operation of large networks. The consortium brings together technical organizations, research infrastructures and industry, with interdisciplinary knowledge and expertise, which will provide access to the infrastructure needed for the implementation of the proposal.