Steering group

The Steering Group (SG) can be considered as the overall scientific and financial management and coordination board of the SeaDataCloud project. All important decisions regarding scientific and technical activities, finances, priorities, remediation actions, etc. will be taken within the SG.

The tasks, responsibilities and competences of the SG can be summarised as follows:

  • Decision making body for the project regarding scientific and technical activities and hereto related financial and person power planning, including decision making about priorities
  • Monitoring of progress of all scientific and technical activities within the Work Packages of the project, including taking of remedial actions in case of delay in progress

The 18 members involved in the SC are:

  • IFREMER (chair), AWI, BSH, CSC, ENEA, EU-JRC, HCMR, ICES, INGV, MARIS, NERC-BODC, OGS, RBINS, ULG, VLIZ
  • Regional coordinators for products : IFREMER, IMR, INGV, METU-IMS, RBINS, SMHI

Depending on the work load and necessity, the SG will meet at least twice a year (once at same time as plenary meetings) and at the end of the project, in total 9 times during the project duration of 4 years.

Contact: sdc-stcom (+suffix@seadatanet.org)