"SUBMERSE - SUBMarine cablEs for ReSearch and Exploration" project will develop an innovative research instrument which will integrate existing infrastructures from National Research and Technology Networks (NRENs), the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), and the Copernicus Marine service, in order to analyse data collected from already installed and activated underwater telecommunication fibres at regular intervals from various locations. The aim of the SUBMERSE project is to explore how underwater telecommunication fibre optic cables, with the potential to generate data beneficial to research without interfering with existing telecommunication traffic, can be used to contribute to scientific research and validate satellite data. The main benefit of the project is that the innovative scientific instruments, tools, and methods provided will advance research infrastructures by developing new cutting-edge services and long-term datasets of unique scientific value. In addition, project implementation will enable the continued capture of data for use in research by NRENs, thereby supporting diverse academic, industrial, and government user communities.  Through the integration of EPOS data infrastructures, existing research communities in the geoscience (EPOS), marine science (EMSO), industry and government sectors can be enriched with completely new types of datasets that were previously unavailable, which is believed to lead to new areas of research.   GRNET’s role in the project includes the following:

• Subscription to the Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure (AAI)
• Contribution to the Monitoring and Calculation Service of the Availability and Reliability of e-Infrastructures (Service Monitoring)
• Provision of part of its submarine fibre production network for project experiments.

The project is implemented under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions).

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