Newsletter December 2025 | Volume 11
The three-year HORIZON EUROPE EuroGO-SHIP seeks to enable the European community conducting ship-based hydrographic observations at sea to provide higher quality and more sustainable data flows to a broad range of end users, more effectively. The project is funded under the call HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01-01: Research infrastructure concept development and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number 10051458, 10068242, 10068528].
A Note from our Coordinator
Dear All,
It is hard to believe that this is the last newsletter of the EuroGO-SHIP project. It has been a fulfilling journey with many successes, and we are wrapping up on a highly satisfied note. We have shared results from our pilot and consultation activities with members of our wider community in Brussels at our Final Event and online during a webinar. The discussions we had during these events demonstrate the need and support for services that a future EuroGO-SHIP Research Infrastructure can provide. In this newsletter, we bring you a summary of those services with links to the presentation we gave at our Final Event.
We look forward to future journeys in one shape or another, and we hope to be connecting with you again. In the meantime, we are happy to hear from you and will continue to monitor our project email: contact@eurogo-ship.eu.
Kind regards,
Dr. Elaine McDonagh
EuroGO-SHIP Project Coordinator
NORCE, Bergen, Norway
EuroGO-SHIP’s Final Event
Achievements and Successes = Impact and Legacy
The many successes of the EuroGO-SHIP three-year project were celebrated in Brussels on the 5th of November as work package leaders: Elaine McDonagh (NORCE), Pascale Lherminier (Ifremer) and Emmanuel Salmon (ICOS) presented the results of consultation and pilot activities in support of co-designing a new Research Infrastructure focussed on ship-based hydrography.
The event was attended by EuroGO-SHIP scientists and stakeholders from the wider marine science community, including DG MARE, REA and members of several established Research Infrastructures.
Among the highlights and highpoints:
Greetings from the Gaia Blu
Katrin Schroeder (CNR) recorded a special message for the audience from the deck of the Research Vessel Gaia Blu during its cruise in the Mediterranean, bringing the sea into the meeting room and highlighting the process of collecting water samples from a CTD rosette. Check it out here.
Show & Tell Stations
Several stands were arranged to showcase key exploitable results, ocean observation instruments, and highlights of the project’s consultation activities.
Build a Research Vessel
This interactive display involved building the EuroGO-SHIP Research Vessel, a symbol of the project’s aspiration to become a Marine Research Infrastructure, piece by piece from Lego. Starting out as several pieces with missing elements, the ship was assembled via many hands through the event and was one of the most popular attractions.
Panel Discussion
An insightful panel discussion featuring Elaine McDonagh (NORCE) and Caroline Cusack (MI) from the EuroGO-SHIP consortium, Zoi Konstantinou from DG MARE, and Laurient Mortier (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) representing the project AMRIT inspired a lively conversation with the wider audience during the Q&A session. Read more.
Wrap-up Webinar
To share EuroGO-SHIP successes and results further, a public webinar was held on the 20th of November. Presentations mirrored those that were shared at the Final Event. The video recording of the webinar can be found here.
EuroGO-SHIP at the Marine Knowledge Week in Brussels
Richard Sanders (NORCE) and Pascale Lherminier (Ifremer) represented EuroGO-SHIP at the Research Infrastructure Workshop which was held as a side event of the EMODnet Open Conference by DG MARE.
Pieter Torrez and Debbie Tsang (SSBE) shared the EuroGO-SHIP factsheet at the EMODnet Open Conference.
So Many Successes – EuroGO-SHIP Legacy Video
Our project video premiered at the Final Event. Check it out here.
EuroGO-SHIP: Observing the Ocean for Europe
“The ocean matters to all of us: it regulates our climate, provides us with food and energy and supports thousands of jobs in the tourism sector. Maximising these benefits, whilst at the same time minimising the hazards it poses, demands large amounts of high-quality information. Much of this comes from ships, one of the oldest ways of observing the ocean, with Europe currently spending around €100 million per year on collecting this information.”
One of the project’s final deliverables is an impact brief encapsulating the project’s work with stakeholders in Europe, and how the results of surveys and needs assessments can create long-lasting benefits. Find it here.
We hope you will support EuroGO-SHIP’s mission to promote the importance of ship-based hydrography in the ocean observation value chain by inviting your contacts to sign-up to this newsletter!