EOCEAN project partners

EOCEAN is a collaboration project between four research institutes and four local authority partners. Our local authority partners represent municipalities and counties with different coastal ecologies and management challenges along Norway’s coast: Karlsøy Municipality, Møre og Romsdal County Council, Arendal Municipality and Larvik Municipality.

Research partners:

The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is Norway’s leading institute for research on marine and freshwater ecosystems, governance and ocean ecosystem accounting. NIVA has extensive expertise in marine coastal ecology, habitat mapping and monitoring and a strong interdisciplinary team working on marine policy, management, planning, legal frameworks and socioeconomics.

The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is the leading institute for research on terrestrial ecology, nature mapping and ecosystem accounting in Norway. NINA has strong competence on condition indicators and is currently leading work on a system of condition indicators for national ecosystem accounts.

The Norwegian Computing Center (NR) is one of Norway’s leading institutions within research-based data analysis. They have strong competence in Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, Earth observation as well as image and statistical analysis.

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) provides scientific expertise on marine ecosystems with the aim of improving the long-term scientific basis for management of the ocean. RBINS has key competence in optical remote sensing, including upscaling of monitoring data with satellite images using machine learning.