IASON Project: Responding to the need for coordinating actions for uptake of research results and more strategic international R&I cooperation

In a context where environmental threats (for example; climate change in the form of sea level rise, water pollution, water and soil management, mining environmental implications, biodiversity loss, and food security) become more and more global, there is a need for a better integration of various sources of information at different scales. Many activities producing information from global to local scale, as well as different research approaches to tackle these problems, are addressing specific requirements along with regional needs. This has resulted in a suite of different data and information that are not always compatible with each other.

IASON intends to create the proper conditions for knowledge transfer, capacity building, and market

opportunities in using EO applications and mechanisms in the following research regional priorities

• Earth Observation applications and coastal monitoring in the climate action
• Earth Observation applications in water and soil resources management in the resource efficiency.
• Earth Observation applications in mining and mineral exploration in the raw material management.

In order to achieve these goals IASON project will combine institutional capacities and human resources from 5 existing EU projects –OBSERVE, enviroGRIDS, GEONETCab, EGIDA, and BalkanGEONet.

All of the above projects focused on enhancing EO capacities, knowledge and technology in the EU and neighbourhood countries. During their execution time they managed to establish links with a critical mass of research institutions, organizations, public organizations, stakeholders, and policy makers in the Balkan region, the Mediterranean, and the black Sea Basin. In addition, the coordinators of these projects are members of the IASON consortium.

IASON will utilize their networks and build on their extended capacity building and knowledge transfer expertise, creating a broader network of transferable solutions.

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