About Us

Teledyne RESON A/S (TELEDYNE) is part of Teledyne Marine, a group of leading-edge subsea technology companies that are part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated. TELEDYNE is responsible for development, production, marketing, sale and support of sonar equipment broadly used for Navigation, Mapping and Research activities. The company is located in several European countries with headquarter in Denmark and is a well-known manufacturer in the industry for market leading product lines and have been a pioneer in the commercialization and adaptation of sonar systems for both research, commercial and defence use. The heritage in the industry goes back more than 100 years, and the company has pioneered the use of several products, among others acoustic sounding devices and inertial navigation systems. The contribution to the NEANIAS project will be centered around the knowhow and practical implementation of modern multibeam echosounder technology, processing tools and systems. The company is well known in the industry through its product brands, and has solid domain experience from both manufacturing, technology and also practical use cases of operating a data collection process. And through several global partnerships, the company has actively contributed through the last 20 years in the promotion and adaptation of technologies including high-end bathymetry processing, mapping systems, chart generation, acoustic water column profiling, sediment classification, calibrated backscatter measurement systems and has been a key player to provide the software tools and sensors to industry and research purposes making these technologies possible.

Read more about us at http://www.teledynemarine.com/

Main role in the project

Teledyne will contribute to the Underwater Environment branch of this proposal. With the development and integration of the service for “Bathymetry Mapping from Hydroacoustic Data” (WP2), Teledyne is utilizing its HR & knowledge in data management, open source software development, hydroacoustic acquisition and postprocessing, as well as in visualization and GIS. The company has a vast experience in H2020, EASME and national wide R&D projects in underwater technologies. Teledybe will also contribute to service delivery, capacity building, dissemination, communication and exploitation activities.

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The National Observatory of Athens is the first research Institution created in Greece (1842). Besides basic and applied research and services to the society, these Institutes provide the facilities for graduate student training in collaboration with other Greek and foreign Universities. NOA hosts the UNESCO Chair for Natural Disasters and the Greek Focal Point of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS), operates the National Seismological Network, etc. The activities of the National Observatory of Athens are organized in 3 research Institutes: The Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, the Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, and the Geodynamics Institute (NOAIG). NOA joins the consortium with NOAIG institute.

NOAIG’s aim is the study and the promotion of research in the fields of: seismology, physics of the earth's interior, geophysics, plate tectonics, volcanology and geothermy, neotectonics and seismotectonics. The main tasks of NOAIG are collection and processing of various seismological - geophysical data, the elaboration of research projects and relevant studies, the training and services provided to third bodies. NOA presents high scientific capabilities and in‐house expertise in multidisciplinary space and geophysical sciences spanning from seismology, geophysics to Earth Observation techniques and applications. NOA research staff members have long experience in the analysis and interpretation of measurements from space‐borne and groundbased instruments, and in the theoretical development and elaboration of tools and techniques. NOA partcipates in the Open Science Cloud H2020 Project EOSC-hub-H2020-EINFRA-2017.

Know more about us at http://bbnet.gein.noa.gr

Main role in the project

NOA has 3 roles in the project: (a) as validator of the work performed by the project mainly in the Underwater sector (b) as the bridge of EPOS and the services of NEANIAS and (c) as a link and engagement actor for communities in several sectors (astronomy, planetary science, geology, athmospheric observation etc).

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ALTEC – Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company – is the Italian center of excellence for the provision of engineering and logistics services to support operations and utilization of the International Space Station and the development and implementation of planetary exploration missions. ALTEC is a public-private company owned by the major European space company, Thales Alenia Space and the Italian Space Agency, ASI. It is based in Turin (Italy) and has liaison offices at NASA and ESA.

ALTEC provides a broad portfolio of services ranging from engineering and logistics support, training of astronauts, to the support to scientific teams in the management and processing of scientific data, the development and management of the ground segment of space programs and the promotion of space culture. In particular, for what concern the management and processing of scientific data, ALTEC has acquired a significant role in the development of a broader set of value-added services related to the operational management of the Data Management Centers (processing, storage and distribution) and Mission Support Centers. Particular attention has been paid to the optimization of the interface with end users of the systems through the development of effective management and application products. This expertise is testified by the key role of the company in the Gaia-DPCT Programme, being in charge for the management of the overall HW, SW infrastructure and DB required for running the scientific SW components, which represents part of Italian Contribution to the ESA Gaia mission, after having designed and developed the centre itself.

Know more about us at https://www.altecspace.it/.

Main role in the project

ALTEC will contribute to the project as System Integrator and Application Developer. As System Integrator will provide competences needed to integrate existing and developed tools, applications and framework in a whole integrate system suitable for the EOSC platform. As Application Developer will develop and increase the functionalities of the applications, databases and framework provided by ALTEC that will be integrated to build the Astro-Planet services. In addition, we could contribute to develop machine learning tools upon the ALTEC Experimental Development Platform that is ready for that scope.

GARR

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Consortium GARR (GARR) is a non-profit association founded under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, University and Research. The founding members are CNR, ENEA, INFN and CRUI Foundation, representing all Italian universities. GARR is the ultra-broadband network dedicated to the Italian research and education community. Its main objective is to provide high-performance connectivity and to develop innovative services for the daily activities of researchers, professors and students as well as for international collaboration.

GARR provides high-capacity (from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps) connectivity to about 4 million research and education users and connects more than 1.000 sites, including research institutes, universities, research hospitals, cultural institutes, libraries, museums and schools. The GARR network covers the whole Italian territory and connects directly with cross border optical fibres to nearby countries and to the pan-European GÉANT network. Moreover, GARR provisions to its users a virtualization infrastructure based on five data centres located in five different sites contributing to a resource pool of 9000 virtual cores, 66 TB of RAM and more than 10 PB of storage space.

GARR activities cover not only the provision of network connectivity and computing facilities, but a rich portfolio of advanced ICT services, specifically developed and tailored on users' needs; to date, GARR service portfolio includes digital identity management, advanced videoconferencing, cybersecurity, cloud services, educational and teaching tools and services.

Know more about us at https://www.garr.it/.

Main role in the project

GARR involvement will focus on the setup of the community-driven and transversal cloud services, deployment and maintenance of related cloud resources and services (WP6 - Core Services Foundation and Implementation and WP7 - Services Delivery and Operation), and contribute to the integration of the services into the EOSC (WP8 – EOSC integration).

In particular, generic Cloud services will include:

• allocation of a quota of computing resources for each of the services to be ported to the EOSC-portal, for an initial total of at least 300 virtual cores, 2 TB RAM, 10 TB disk space: this quota may be increased as needed, and the relevant resources will be provided on the OpenStack and/or the Kubernetes platforms, as the relevant communities will see fit.
• advanced user-community oriented identity services supporting the integration of AAI infrastructure with EOSC; This services portfolio ranges from Identity Federation services, like SAML Identity Providers or SAML Service Providers, to community proxies, capable of integrating SAML and OIDC/OAuth2 based authentication and bridging towards social identities if required. An additional set of services which might be optionally provided is Attribute Authority and Group Management services, if required to integrate the project cloud services to EOSC. Those services might be provided according to the requirements of the designed architecture for the project AAI infrastructure and the integration of the project services in EOSC.
• proactive monitoring of the computing resources (to prevent and/or quickly react to technical issues which may affect operations and to accumulate usage statistics) and access to the GARR-CSD ticketing system as the channel to interact with the technical staff in order to provide assistance and guidance or to report problems.

In addition to deploying the services, GARR will also document and maintain procedures to deploy them on generic (Openstack- and, possibly, Kubernetes-based) infrastructures.

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Meteorological and Environmental Earth Observation - MEEO S.r.l. (www.meeo.it) is a privately-held company devoted to the implementation and development of products and services based on remote sensing of the Earth-Atmosphere system. MEEO is a consolidated partner of the European Space Agency (ESA) and since 2011 an affiliated partner of the Climate-KIC association. The main expertise offered deals with implementation and operation of Earth Observation and geospatial data infrastructure tools, Climate data services, Image information mining tools, satellite and ground data integration, Change detection application, multi-source/multi-temporal analysis, WebGIS Applications development and implementation for private and public local administrations; standardization of processes and data storage / transmission tools (OGC, INSPIRE). The ADAM - Advanced geospatial Data Management platform (adamplatform.eu), is an efficient and robust system implemented to manage the full data cycle: discovery, access, exploration, processing, and visualization services are made available on top of the 3D virtual globe powered by the ESA-NASA Web World Wind, the natural environment where the Earth Scientists find easy-to-use service functionalities to dynamically interact with Earth Observation products. MEEO has been involved in several projects and initiatives where the technology for geospatial data accessing has been implemented and further evolved. In EarthServer and EarthServer-2 the implementation of the WCS standard has been extended to Earth Observation data. In EOSC-hub, the technology has been integrated as part of the EO Pillar data exploitation services. Several collaborations with private and public data centres have been activated to implement web-based solution for the management of geospatial data and processes for both EO and not-EO data. MEEO is also involved in several thematic projects where its expertise in climate and atmospheric data processing has been empowered by the implementation of customized version of ADAM platform. In the EVER-EST project MEEO has supported scientific communities in geoscience (Land Monitoring, Natural Hazards, Supersites and Sea Monitoring) to design and implement the Virtual Research Environment for Earth Science to support the collaborative research activities. In the DATABIO project MEEO is supporting agricultural sector to identify climate indicators for extreme weather events risk estimation. In the EOCHA project MEEO has led a pilot case to exploit climate data for health-climate related risk estimation. In RAINBO project MEEO is supporting local municipalities in managing the hydrological risk due to extreme precipitation events.

Know more about us at http://www.meeo.it/.

Main role in the project

MEEO’s role in the project deals with the integration into EOSC of the geospatial data platform as core cross cutting services like geospatial data discovery, access processing and visualization. A large variety of geospatial data access services for Atmosphere, Climate, Forestry, Ocean, Vegetation and many other application domains can be offered, including Copernicus Sentinel data. It is also proposed to extend the core technology to support Planetary Science geospatial data. MEEO supports also the service providers tin the innovative thematic services concerning atmosphere and climate data service.

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Eunice Energy Group (EEG) established Eunice Europe GmbH in 2008. Since 2001 Eunice Energy Group (EEG) has been one of the leading renewable energy companies in Greece. It delivers smart renewable energy solutions and investments together with our investment and technology partners.

Main role in the project

Eunice Europe GmbH is developing the AEGEAN Project with a total wind energy capacity of 582 MW on remote and uninhabited islets of the Aegean Sea of the Cyclades and Dodecanese complex, a greater area which identified with the reference region of NEANIAS. In this context, the company aims at utilizing the deliverables for the individual design needs of the main project as well as the accompanying projects (e.g. submarine interconnection cable) as an “end user”.

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innomine Group is a leading innovation management and funding expert, with a solid track record in the field of innovation and international projects. innomine focuses on international, highly complex startup, scaleup, SME and corporate research and innovation projects and offers its innovation, public funds and communication expertise to best represent the interest of its clients. It is specialised in publicly financed innovation programmes, primarily in the high-tech sector and has a cross-disciplinary and cross-national team of professionally qualified consultants, with research and consultancy expertise in management, technology and European funding. innomine has more than a decade of work for top-tier clients such as Microsoft, DIGITALEUROPE and the European Commission, as well hundreds of tech companies (startups and scaleups).

The company’s senior experts have 15+ years of international experience, PhD and other academic degrees. The company has close relationship with numerous technological companies and organisations that are interested in commercialization of research results (e.g. DIGITALEUROPE, Microsoft, Telefonica and several Silicon Valley players). Through a close collaboration with these companies innomine contributed to the successful implementation of many European, startup and innovation related projects, like OpenAxel – Open Acceleration Services Under Smart Systemic Cooperation, Sharing Interregional knowledge to define Supporting Programmes For Young SMEs, and Watify – Stimulating Digital Entrepreneurship. innomine is a registered innovation management expert (Imp3rove methodology), as well as a registered corporate strategy and business consultant. In 2017 innomine launched its activities as Digital Innovation Hub, has been selected by EC as a key entity in Central-Eastern European region and successfully completed a mentoring program to upscale its Digital Innovation Hub.

Main role in the project

Innomine with lead the activities that foster Business Innovation (WP5) and will mobilise its resources in engaging new comers to the platform and its offerings, as well as support the business analysis of both NEANIAS and its innovation cases.

About us

INCITES Consulting SARL is an SME company established in Luxembourg. INCITES was founded on May 2013 and its main activities rely on telecommunications techno economics, regulatory economics and policies, demand forecasting, business and price modelling. The objectives of INCITES Consulting SARL can be summarized as follows:

1. Consulting services regarding techno-economic analysis of ICT systems and services, demand and prices forecasting of ICT products and services, uncertainty management in telecom investment.
2. Consulting services on regulatory economics and financial investments in ICT.
3. Provision of consultancy services for the development of bottom-up and top-down models for telecommunication networks for regulators, government agencies, telecommunications providers and associations.
4. Research on new business models and techno economics methodologies
5. Development, operation, commercialization and support of specialized software tools and components for all the above purposes.
6. Collection of data for various markets within ICT that help our clients make data-driven decisions.

INCITES Consulting SARL has a profound experience in ICT systems and techno-economics with a rich collection of papers in scientific journals and conferences (see below). INCITES has participated in numerous European R&I projects (see below) collaborating with several well-known partners in order to investigate new business models and financially assess the proposed solutions. Finally, INCITES has provided advices to technology providers and companies on their investment plans as well as to regulatory authorities by developing appropriate business plans and bottom-up models.

Know more about us at https://www.incites.eu/.

Main role in the project

INCITES will mainly participate in the exploitation activities of NEANNIAS project performing a market and techno economic analysis and drafting a business. It will support the pricing and ordering concepts of EOSC Marketplace realisation in NEANIAS services. It will also contribute to use cases and requirements definition as well as to dissemination activities.

About us

Jacobs University Bremen (JacobsUni) is a highly selective, international, residential university with currently 1244 students from 111 nations, 93 professors and 138 research staff. The key guiding principles in both research and teaching are: excellence, internationality and interculturality, transdisciplinarity, interactivity. It opened in 2001 as a private, independent university, registered as a non-profit organization (gGmbH). Research at Jacobs University spans a broad range of fields. Partner institutions include major scientific players and the external research cooperation network exceeds 1000 individuals/groups.

Know more about us at https://www.jacobs-university.de/.

Main role in the project

JacobsUni will contribute to scientific aspects of the project related to the Planetary/Astronomic research as well as to the technological activities related to the integration within EOSC services. JacobsUni experience ranges from data management, analytics and visualisation to planetary and terrestrial 2D/3D mapping, including terrestrial Remote Sensing, bathymetry and planetary surfaces.

About us

Ricoh is a global technology company that has been transforming the way people work for more than 80 years. Under the corporate motto, "imagine. change" Ricoh continues to empowering businesses and people through services and technologies that inspire innovation, improve sustainability and drive growth. Ricoh’s experience in the capture, management and transformation of information has allowed us, through Ricoh Services, to offer solutions that help organizations and people to be more productive and efficient, adapting technological services to the current reality of the people and the world, with the best technologies and a clear digital strategy.

Ricoh is a leader at the top of the consulting sector in the area specific to TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology) and works to provide its clients with a broad vision of the sector, having the proven ability to build solid strategies based on ICT with the aim to help their clients achieve their business goals. At same time Ricoh can design and implement technology solutions and manage outsourcing applications, infrastructure and processes. It fosters the use of quality assurance methodologies and provides functional and technological specialization. The company’s senior experts have 15+ years of international experience, MBA and other academic degrees.

Digital transformation is the true essence of Ricoh business, being experts in consulting projects (including functional consultancy, business consulting, process transformation and market analysis), IT services (development of solutions and applications, e-commerce systems), infrastructure services (cloud services, IoT and BigData, development of horizontal platforms, among others).

Focusing in innovation, Ricoh has a solid expertise in new services definition and development, including (i) Smart Energy/Water: Services related to smart grid / energy and customer energy management. These allow the improvement of the operational management of the utility, provide energy efficiency services and value added services to the end customer and (ii) Smart City: Services related to the new smart cities through the use of sensorisation and specific ICT platforms, to provide better services to the citizen. The main applications are related to mobility, urban services and tourism.

Know more about us at Ricoh Spain.

Main role in the project

Main roles of Ricoh in the project includes the leadership and coordination of the dissemination of the advantages and applicability of the system in different working and research environments, analysing the best place and channel to carry them out through a transversal management and engagement. Besides, Ricoh is experienced and aims to participate in other activities related to Project Management, Technical Validation, Social & Economical Validation, Upscaling & Deployment, Replication, user engagement and change management.