ON-GOING PROJECTS
EC PROJECTS

• UP-GRADE BS-SCENE: Up-grade Black Sea Scientific Network, EC FP7 Research Infrastructures, 2009-2012.
• RADPAR: Radon Prevention and Remediation, EC Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, contract nr 2008 1217, 2009-2012
• PERGAMON: Permafrost and gas hydrate related methane release in the Arctic and impact on climate change: European cooperation for long-term monitoring, European Concerted Research Action COST Action ES0902, 2010-2014 (www.cost-pergamon.eu)

OTHER PROJECTS

• Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Belgium): Statistical and geostatistical analysis of the radon database of risk zones in Belgium, 2009-2010.

RECENTLY PERFORMED PROJECTS

• INTAS: Assessment of the Feasibility of CO2 Storage in the Russian Permafrost, INTAS N 06-100025-9220, 2007-2009
• Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (Belgium): Radon mapping of municipalities located in potential risk zones in Belgium, 2004-2008.
• EC FP6: Black Sea Scientific Network (BLACKSEASCENE), contract No 022868, 2005-2008
• INDUWASTE: Management and Remediation of Hazardous Industrial Wastes in the Western Balkan Countries, EC INCO SSA Contract n° 515919, 2005-2006, IBES coordinator.
• INTAILRISK : Assessment of Environmental Risk for Use of Radioactively Contaminated Industrial Tailings, contract n° INCO-CT-2004-509214, 2004-2007, IBES coordinator.
• CRIMEA: Contribution of High-intensity Gas Seeps in the Black Sea to Methane Emission in the Atmosphere, contract n° EVK-2-CT-2002-00162, 2003-2006, IBES participant.

UP-GRADE BS-SCENE

The predecessor FP6 RI Black Sea SCENE project established a Black Sea Scientific Network of leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes, universities and NGO’s from the countries around the Black Sea and developed a distributed virtual data and information infrastructure that is populated and maintained by these organisations to improve the identification, access, exchange, quality indication and use of their data and information about the Black Sea.

The Black Sea SCENE research infrastructure stimulates scientific cooperation, exchange of knowledge and expertise, and strengthens the regional capacity and performance of marine environmental data & information management, underpins harmonization with European marine data quality control/assessment procedures and adoption of international meta-data standards and data-management practices, providing improved data & information delivery services for the Black Sea region at a European level.

The UP-GRADE BS-SCENE project aims:

• To extend the existing research infrastructure with an additional 19 marine environmental institutes/organizations from the 6 Black Sea countries.
• To implement the results of the Joint Research Activities of the FP6 RI SeaDataNet project (common communication standards and adapted technologies to ensure the datacenters interoperability).
• To network the existing and new Black Sea datacenters, active in data collection, and provide integrated databases of standardized quality on-line.
• To realize and improve on-line access to in-situ and remote sensing data, meta-data and products.
• To adopt standardized methodologies for data quality checking to ensure the quality, compatibility and coherence of the data issuing from so many sources.

UP-GRADE BS-SCENE is undertaken by 51 partners of which 43 are located in the Black Sea countries.