Funding programme and call:
Convocatoria de ayudas para el fomento de la cultura científica, tecnológica y de la innovación 2017
Start Date:
01/01/2018
End Date:
31/12/2018
Duration:
12 months
Total budget:
71,572.00 €
Budget for PLOCAN:
60,502.00 €
Total funding:
16,000.00 €
Funding for PLOCAN:
13,300.00 €
Coordinator:
Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (ES)
Partners:
Universidad de Girona (ES)
Web:
This project proposes the construction of programmable marine robots in several areas for educational purposes, from low cost tools, with free hardware and software. The proposal constitutes the continuation and extension of the FECYT 2017 project "ROVINO - Low Cost Educational Robotics with Arduino Technology", growing the experience grow in all senses.
On the one hand, to carry out a science and technology dissemination that can reach more people (students of different standard and nonstandard educational levels, families, and the general public). The experience held at the Elder Museum of Science and Technology in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in August 2017 will be considered as a reference, but taking it to a National Museum of the FECyT. On the other hand, the project incorporates more elements and technological tools appropriate to the different levels of education through a project-based learning methodology, both using appropriate hardware and software programming platforms and presenting 3D printing of certain pieces related to different aspects of the marine robotics activity. The project also considers a greater integration to the education and scientific-technical vocation of girls and young women. Recent studies show that girls get more involved in these activities when technology is not the goal by itself (usually social projects). Therefore, girls might be more interested in these projects when technology is not the goal by itself. Thus, a pilot experience of access to classrooms in hospitals is proposed.
The ROVSTEAM project is part of the Educational, Marine Robotics Initiative EDUROVs, with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT), the Cabildo (Island Government) of Gran Canaria and the Obra Social Charity of La Caixa bank.
Funding programme and call:
H2020-INFRADEV-2016-2017 / Topic: INFRADEV-03-2016-2017:Individual support to ESFRI and otherworld-class research infrastructures / Deadline Id: H2020-INFRADEV-2016-1
Start Date:
01/03/2017
End Date:
29/02/2020
Duration:
36 months
Total budget:
4,370,279.41 €
Budget for PLOCAN:
30,500.00 €
Total funding:
4,359,451.25 €
Funding for PLOCAN:
30,500.00 €
Coordinator:
EMSO ERIC (IT)
Partners:
EMSO ERIC (IT) – INGV (IT) – IFREMER (FR) – CNRS (FR) – NERC (UK) – HCMR
– (GR) - INNOVA SRL (IT) – MI (IE) – UPC (ES) – GeoEcoMar (RO) – IPMA
(PT) – PLOCAN (ES). Third Parties: UPMC (FR)
EMSO-Link is a 3-year project underpinning the long-term sustainability of EMSO ERIC, the pan-European distributed Research Infrastructure (RI) composed of fixed point open ocean observatories for the study and monitoring of European seas. EMSO pursues the long-term objective to be part of the upcoming European Ocean Observing System (EOOS), which is expected to integrate multiple platforms and data systems, including other ERICs, to achieve the first sustained, standardized and permanent observatory network of the European seas. EMSO ERIC coordinates the access to the facilities and supports the management of data streams from EMSO observatories.
EMSO-Link will accelerate the establishment of EMSO ERIC governance rules and procedures and will facilitate the coordination of EMSO infrastructure construction, operation, extension and maintenance. Specifically, EMSO-Link will:
EMSO-Link will contribute to the identification of methodologies for the achievement of Good Environmental Status of the European marine waters by 2020, according to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.