PIs: Paolo Laj and Sabine Philippin - CNRS
CO-PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/04/2021
Duration: 48 months

Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020

Total Budget: € 15,000,000.00 € IAASARS Budget: 62,000.00 €

ATMO-ACCESS is the organized response of distributed atmospheric research facilities for developing a pilot for a new model of Integrating Activities. The project will deliver a series of recommendations for establishing a comprehensive and sustainable framework for access to distributed atmospheric Research Infrastructures (RI), ensuring integrated access to and optimised use of the services they provide. ATMO-ACCESS will mobilize extensive resources
in the atmospheric RIs communities to engage into harmonizing access procedures in relation to policies, financial regulations and conditions for access.

PI: A. Papaioannou
Grantees: S. Mallios, G. Papangelis
Start date: 04/05/2020
Duration: 15 months (end date: 04/09/2021)

Funding: ESPA - Operational Programme «Human Resources Development,
Education and Lifelong Learning» Partnership Agreement 2014-2020, co-financed by Greece and the European Union

Total Budget: 45.545,50 € IAASARS Budget: 45.545,50 €

Within MEDIMNOS, a novel implementation of a 3D dust electrification model that depends on time taking into account several atmospheric processes, such as:

• ionization due to the radiation of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs),
• ion-ion recombination and
• the attachment of ions to particles of non-spherical dust is
  implemented. The new 3D Cartesian formalization allows the study of dust layers without imposing symmetry and applies to layers with significant horizontal and vertical area.

PI: C. Kontoes - Raymetrics
Co-PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/02/2016
Duration: 34 months

Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme,
H2020-EU.3.5.5., Project Number: 690133

Total Budget: 3.030.800€

GEO-CRADLE is a Coordination and Support Action established for providing support to the Intergovernmental Organization GEO (Group on Earth Observations) and the Program for Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security Copernicus. GEO-CRADLE is also a synergetic action that establishes a network of stakeholders across the entire value added chain in Earth Observation (research, service providers, data providers, decision makers) and
builds on platforms for the integration and dissemination of EO data and know-how across the regions of N. Africa, Middle East, and the Balkans (NAMEBA - also called as RoI-Region of Interest).

Co-PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/05/2019
Duration: 48 months

Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020, H2020-EU.3.5.5., Project Number: 820852

Total Budget: 15.688.319,10 € IAASARS Budget: 1.755.850 €

Europe’s contribution to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) will receive a big boost from the e-shape project. It is the largest coordinated effort to highlight operational services in the field of Earth observation research in Europe. The project aims to improve user uptake of Earth Observation data in the region. It will develop operational EO services and demonstrate the benefits of the EO pilots at national and international scale, across vertical markets (private and public), and amongst key user communities. Through the coordinated downstream exploitation of EO data and existing EO resources, they will run 27 cloud-based pilot applications under 7 thematic areas to address societal challenges, foster entrepreneurship, and support sustainable development.

PI: A. Amditis

Contribution: V. Amiridis

Start date: 01/03/2023

Duration: 36 months

Funding: European Union’s Horizon Europe – GOVERNANCE: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal

Total Budget: 3,642,977.00€ IAASARS Budget: 482,125.00 €

CiROCCO's vision is to establish an end-to-end sensing system, composed of a distributed network of cost-effective sensing nodes coupled with state-of-the-art data fusion remote sensing and assimilation modelling techniques. A mix of wireless communications including satellite, and local Wireless Sensor Networks is used for the collection of data. The defined network of sensors will enhance the current lack of ground observation in desert areas covering Egypt, Serbia and Spain, offering an operational and in parallel easy to maintain and expand solution.