iMarine infrastructure for data driven decision making and research: position paper

Position paper presented and discussed at the iMarine Invitation-only Workshop - 14th & 15th May 2013 iMarine has organized an invitation-only workshop to discuss data driven decision making and research on 14th & 15th May 2013 at DG Connect, Avenue de Beaulieu 33 (BU33), Room 0/54, Brussels, Belgium. The goal of iMarine is to facilitate policy makers in addressing the global challenges impacting on the marine ecosystem, the fisheries sector, local economies and communities and to demonstrate that science based policy making can benefit from a large and distributed e-Infrastructure for cross-disciplinary data collection, harmonization and analysis necessary for the management and conservation of marine living resources. The workshop helped identify opportunities for iMarine to scale out its user base by establishing bilateral agreements and supporting policy-related services