5 November 2026
The NODC is thrilled to announce the official start of FLUID-AI4EOSC, a new Horizon Europe project that will bridge critical interoperability gaps between research data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models, and Research Infrastructures across the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) ecosystem.
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29 September 2026
Last weekend, the NODC took part in Trieste Next. At the OGS stand in Piazza Unità, we presented data on waves, currents, algal blooms, and much more relating to the Gulf of Trieste to the many visitors. This was made possible by the OGS geoportal, an interactive web platform for downloading and visualising marine data.
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29 July 2026
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) invited the NODC to the launch of the new NUTEC Plastics Global Marine Monitoring Platform. Since 2024, the NODC has collaborated with the IAEA to create a database for global micro-litter data.
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22 June 2026
At the latest meeting of the Italian Data Steward Community, the NODC presented the profiles of data stewards (DS) who manage marine data for the Data Centre, explaining their characteristics, how they complement one another, and how they interact with different stakeholders throughout their career path.
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4 June 2026
The NODC participated in the MARLICE forum to share its experience as a data manager of marine litter data in Europe and beyond.
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3 June 2026
NODC has returned for the General Assembly (GA) of the Blue-Cloud 2026 project, held back to back with the European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC-A) GA.
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13 May 2026
On occasion of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Data stewards from the NODC recently demonstrated OGS involvement in key European projects that support the implementation of EU directives aimed at safeguarding and sustainably managing marine resources.
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5 May 2026
OGS organised a training course in Trieste on marine data management, in line with Open Science principles and the standards of the European marine data access service, EMODnet Chemistry.
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5 February 2026
At a recent workshop on the new EU-funded Citizen Science project, CS-MACH1, the NODC shared their experience in managing marine data collected by citizens under the supervision of experienced scientific teams.
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4 December 2025
At the latest meeting of the Italian Data Steward community, the NODC presented the OGS action plan to implement the Agreement for Reforming Research Assessment, focusing on actions to improve data management in accordance with open science principles.
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4 December 2025
NODC presented the system in place at OGS to collect marine data from in-situ stations, which are then processed, stored, and made available in near-real-time through international data access services.
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20 October 2025
NODC attended the 2025 edition of International Data Week to showcase its role in the marine knowledge value chain and how this supports international environmental policies in addressing marine pollution.
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30 September 2025
At the final lecture of the Blue Economy Advanced Master in Trieste, Italy, NODC highlighted the crucial role of open, high-quality data in marine science and policy.
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29 September 2025
During an event organized as part of Trieste Next 2025, the NODC, together with several Italian research and monitoring institutes, explained the importance of sharing scientific data for making timely decisions in the fight against marine litter and climate change.
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16 June 2025
The National Oceanographic Data Centre is back from the Third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice and the associated scientific congress, which focused on global warming, endangered marine biodiversity, overfishing and food security, plastic pollution and maritime transport.
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18 May 2025
Alexia Cociancich, NODC Data Steward, was present at the GARR 2025 conference to explain how NODC ensures the accessibility and interoperability of oceanographic data in near real-time for a wide range of parameters.
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5 May 2025
With a presentation and 3 posters, a delegation from NODC explained some of its latest results at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), giving a flavour of the diverse capabilities of its data stewards
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24 March 2025
From 11 to 13 March, NODC was in Monaco to participate in the Global Partnership on Plastic Pollution and Marine Litter (GPML) Community of Practice (CoP) workshop on harmonising the monitoring and assessment of plastic pollution.
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17 March 2025
NODC has just come back from Colombia to attend relevant international appointments for experts on marine data.
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14 February 2025
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre has published the latest findings on marine litter trends, which show a significant decrease on European coasts. NODC has contributed to this assessment by managing marine litter data in the EMODnet in-situ marine data service.
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3 February 2025
NODC is working on the development of new systems to receive, store data and make them accessible. Please complete the survey to make our services even more efficient and useful for you!
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23 January 2025
Read the NODC article (in Italian) on open-science.it, which explains what a quality management system is, what steps need to be taken to set it up and why it helps you to continuously improve the quality of services to make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
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20 January 2025
One of NODC’s data stewards explained to the journalists what her work is about and which studies led her to Italy.
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17 January 2025
During the “Open Science Cafè” event, NODC spoke about the system it has put in place to continuously improve the quality of its marine data management services.
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7 November 2024
NODC was recently at the Open Access Week in Genoa (Italy) to share its experience in the field of marine data management and the implementation of a system to continuously improve services for data curation, security and accessibility.
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5 November 2024
OGS presented its latest multimedia products at the Festival of Science and Fiction in Trieste. Some ideas for communicating further scientific messages were presented by a digital agency.
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4 November 2024
During the last symposium of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), NODC was informed about the next steps to establish the EOSC federation and showed its use case for quality standards related to marine data management services.
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25 October 2024
During the 43rd edition of the Congress of the Mediterranean Science Commission, NODC explained the history of marine data management at OGS from 1979 to the most recent improvements and results.
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22 October 2024
The NODC was recently in Shanghai (China) to attend the invitation-only international workshop on Monitoring, Assessment and Prevention of Marine Litter on the seafloor.
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15 October 2024
NODC participated in the General Assembly of the FAIR-EASE project, which focuses on open data and services for Earth and environmental sciences. This was followed by an open science day for all stakeholders.
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14 October 2024
The NODC presented the management of marine litter data at European level at a workshop organised by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment on the Atlas of Ocean Microplastics - AOMI.
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30 September 2024
In a conference that is part of the Trieste Next programme, the NODC discussed some of the founding principles of Open Science with other relevant stakeholders.
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26 August 2024
The Head of the NODC infrastructure has been appointed to the EU Ocean Observation Expert Group, which aims to develop a common approach for all EU countries
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20 May 2024
The Water Festival, in which NODC participated to talk about plastic in the ocean and sea, has just ended in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy).
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18 April 2024
The National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS celebrates its twentieth anniversary with an important achievement: UNESCO certification, which confirms the quality of the data managed by the Centre.
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26 February 2024
Listen to the National Oceanographic Data Centre's (NODC) interview for the Italian state-owned public-service broadcasting organization (RAI) about the latest news on tackling marine litter pollution.
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2 February 2024
What marine data and how to make it ready for submission? These and many other questions were answered during the training course of the EMODnet Chemistry project organised by NODC a few days ago.
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12 January 2024
NODC has created a customer satisfaction survey to gather information on what users think about its data and services.
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20 December 2023
The Technical Group on Marine Litter of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive has published the new Guidance on the Monitoring of Marine Litter in European Seas.
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8 November 2023
What is a data steward and what skills should they have to lead the scientific community towards Open Science? A meeting of data experts discussed this on 7 November in Rome.
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6 November 2023
During the Genoa Science Festival, NODC and ETT SpA explained the importance of trustworthy data for the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with a talk and a board game.
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13 October 2023
On this occasion, NODC explains the importance of establishing a common data flow from sampling to data collection to improve the quality, reliability and comparability of the data.
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12 October 2023
NODC at the international meeting to discuss the key achievements and future of the Horizon 2020 project EUROqCHARM
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26 September 2023
Three appointments with science and scientific communication at Trieste Next with OGS researchers of OGS and APZmedia creative studio.
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25 September 2023
Italian researchers, international experts in open science, data management and technologies to understand and help the environment, meet a large audience of young people interested in the future of science.
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3 July 2023
European ocean observation and the role of marine data in EU policies were discussed in Genoa by NODC and other international marine scientists and data managers during the Ocean Race Finale.
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30 June 2023
NODC supports the iMagine call for proposals, where researchers can apply for services, tools, training and support for AI-based image analysis.
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19 June 2023
Three data infrastructures, EMODnet Chemistry, Copernicus and World Ocean Data, were presented, compared and discussed in terms of data quality control during the Blue-Cloud 2026 webinar.
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19 June 2023
The role played by the data stewards of the National Oceanographic Data Center in carrying out the OGS mission dedicated to Open Science was presented to the Scientific Council of the Institute.
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16 June 2023
NODC presented and discussed its contribution to Blue-Cloud 2026 virtual labs and workbenches
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6 June 2023
NODC's mission and its online data access services were presented in a poster at the Italian tripartite meeting on the European Open Science Cloud.
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20 April 2023
54 international marine litter experts participated in the webinar on the latest results of the Horizon 2020 EUROqCHARM project.
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4 April 2023
Congratulations to Maria Eugenia Molina Jack for her award-winning work!
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29 March 2023
The Open Sea Lab Hackathon is a unique event to develop solutions to ocean challenges.
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27 March 2023
NODC presented the need for harmonised multidisciplinary data to address marine pollution in the Mediterranean.
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20 March 2023
The NODC explained the importance of sharing high quality marine data through authoritative data infrastructures at European and global level.
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13 March 2023
Seven international organisations participated in the workshop organised by NODC to consult the consolidated and potential stakeholders for sharing EMODnet Chemistry data and data products.
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24 February 2023
Blue Cloud continues to pave the way for the provision of FAIR data and services relevant to the EU Mission "Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030.
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15 February 2023
Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and the Nippon Foundation, calls for action on marine pollution based on the results of expert consultations that included NODC.
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26 January 2023
The unified EMODnet portal will provide users with fast and free access to reliable and accurate data and information on the state of the seas and oceans.
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17 January 2023
On 27-28 March 2023, the Hackathon will allow participants to live-test EMODnet’s data resources and services and develop marine-related applications.
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12 December 2022
A meeting open to general public for the technologisation of knowledge production
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12 December 2022
Strengthening synergies between research institutions on this topic is the objective of the event held a few days ago in Rome
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7 November 2022
The video celebrating NODC's 20th anniversary was previewed at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
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28 October 2022
Thanks to a scientific paper, NODC has received an Open Science Certificate from Elsevier.
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19 October 2022
The role of citizens in combating plastic pollution was one of the key topics discussed at the latest Ocean Best Practices Workshop.
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17 October 2022
On 13 October NODC organised a webinar with the University of Bologna. The initiative EMODnet Chemistry was the focus of the NODC lecture.
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17 October 2022
NODC participated in the Euro Argo international workshop in the framework of the Euro-Argo RISE and EuroSea projects.
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3 October 2022
Great turnout at the Quiz on sea and ocean facilitated by the NODC at the European Researchers' Night 2022
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27 September 2022
OGS, University of Turin and CNR together for Trieste Next to talk about Open Science.
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23 September 2022
Launched FAIR-EASE, the project to facilitate access to multidisciplinary data from different systems
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23 September 2022
A new interesting challenge for NODC begins. Its name is iMagine.
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15 July 2022
NODC presented two key OGS initiatives for the newly launched SciNMeet programme
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27 June 2022
During the SHAREMED training course “Practical Introductory Course to Marine Monitoring Hardware and Procedures” attendees were able to learn and practise about the webODV tool to explore and extract marine data.
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9 June 2022
The interview with the NODC on the occasion of the twenty years since the first official recognition of OGS in the collection, conservation and exchange of marine data.
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26 May 2022
NODC was among the Italian delegates at the recent General Assembly of the Association charged with advancing Open Science in Europe.
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28 March 2022
"From good data to good decision" is the title of the NODC's lecture at the Master devoted to the creation of new blue professional profiles.
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18 March 2022
NODC explains the importance of HQ data to produce sound knowledge against marine pollution.
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4 March 2022
The Manual to facilitate the use of the Marine Litter Manager tool, developed by OGs, is online.
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10 February 2022
An Early Warning System for Severe Eutrophication was proposed by OGS and AWI during the Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2022
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28 December 2021
OGS and EMODnet Chemistry are the 11th success story of EMODnet ingestion due to the submission of marine litter data from NGOs and EU institutes for marine sciences
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7 December 2021
NODC, coordinating the Italian node of SeaDataCloud, celebrates the winning of the Les Etoiles de l'Europe (Stars of Europe) trophy as an Open Science project.
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29 October 2021
The tenth MonGOOS workshop was the occasion to share some rilevant outcomes of the SHAREMED project
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15 October 2021
A document for the Blue Economy and the Open Science released by the partnership of ten projects on scientific marine observation.
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27 September 2021
What is Open Science? And why is it so important? Read the answers given by OGS at the Trieste Next Festival 2021
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25 September 2021
OGS at the Ocean Best Practices workshop to bring its experience as marine litter data manager at EU level and beyond
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29 June 2021
OGS with team 6 won the Bluemed Hackathon challenge 3, for a plastic-free Mediterranean Sea
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18 June 2021
NODC explains why validated and shared scientific methods are fundamental to tackle marine plastic pollution.
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14 June 2021
During the Festival of the Sea, NODC explains the importance of storing, evaluating and sharing marine data.
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28 May 2021
OGS is fighting to win the BlueMed Hackathon team challenge in support of the Blue Economy
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5 May 2021
NODC has presented the main international collaborations of 2020, coordinated by OGS through EMODnet Chemistry
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19 December 2020
OGS joins the project EUROqCHARM to assure EU harmonised monitoring programmes and data on marine plastics
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4 December 2020
NODC was at the EU Researchers' Night 2020, with the event 'Marine pollution 101: knowing, preventing, reducing'
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2 October 2020
NODC and WWF-AMP MIRAMARE organized the event #SPLASTICHIAMOILMARE during Trieste Next 2020
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21 November 2019
NODC has coordinated the drawing up of the newly released Data Policy of the OGS Oceanography section
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1 October 2019
OGS has taken part in the Festival of Scientific Research of Trieste 2019 focused on Big Data
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15 September 2019
NODC could represent Italy in the UN international system for the exchange of oceanographic data and information
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22 April 2019
Making data FAIR is essential to support environmental sustainability of productive activities. The new achievements of OGS.
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6 May 2018
NODC welcomes the marine litter data, collected from citizens through the EEA MarineLitterWatch app
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25 February 2018
NODC has developed and published several open source tools to manage marine litter data on a European scale
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18 February 2018
NODC at the heart of the OGS policies to support Open Science in the marine field
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20 November 2017
Three new databases for marine litter data management in Europe have been created by NODC
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31 August 2017
EMODnet and ICES will be the new EU data sources for some indicators used to compile environmental reports by EEA
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2 June 2017
An OGS Case Study on a trophic gradient in the North Adriatic Sea contributes to the UNEP/MAP Quality Status Report
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8 January 2016
SeaDataCloud is ready to further advance the SeaDataNet Services and increase their usage
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10 January 2015
OGS collaborates to the ACTIONmed project for harmonized actions to protect the Mediterranean Sea
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20 December 2014
The project ODIP 2 is about to start. It is aimed at continuing the activities of the Ocean Data Interoperability Platform.
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8 April 2013
NODC is on MERIL, the portal where the European Research Infrastructure Landscape is mapped.
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17 March 2007
The meeting of Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange was held in Trieste
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16 December 2005
SeaDataNet is the new research infrastructure in support of research excellence in Europe
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29 June 2002
Italy counts on OGS/NODC to take part in the UNESCO International Oceanographic Data Exchange System
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