MINKE’s Transnational and Virtual Access

MINKE (Metrology for Integrated marine maNagement and Knowledge-transfer nEtwork) is an european project funded under Call H2020-INFRAIA-2018-2020 and Topic INFRAIA-02-2020 Research and Innovation action. MINKE project integrates key European marine metrology research infrastructures, to coordinate their use and development and propose an innovative framework of “quality of oceanographic data” for the different European actors in charge of monitoring and managing the marine ecosystems. MINKE proposes a new vision in the design of marine monitoring networks considering two dimensions of data quality, accuracy and completeness, as the driving components of the quality in data acquisition. The project through the different Integration Activities (Networking, Transnational Virtual Access and Joint Research), aims to lay the groundwork for creating the necessary synergies among the different involved actors, creating a new community with complementary capabilities for Ocean & Coastal Observation, that will facilitate the transition towards a blue growth socio-economic system.This paper presents the activities related to the Transnational and Virtual Access services offered through the project.