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Strategic Science & Innovation Agenda Underpinning the Technical and Organisational Design of DANUBIUS-RI Draft - Deliverable 2.5 DANUBIUS-PP Deliverable 2.5 Science & Innovation Agenda (draft) Preparatory Phase for the pan-European Research Infrastructure DANUBIUS-RI Project Full Title “The International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems” Project Acronym DANUBIUS-PP Grant Agreement No. 739562 Coordinator Dr. Adrian Stanica Project Start Date 1st December 2016, 36 months and Duration Project Website www.danubius-pp.eu Deliverable Nr. 2.5 Deliverable Date M24 Work Package No. 2 Work Package Title Science and Innovation Agenda Responsible HZG GERMANY Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) Jana Friedrich, Sina Bold, Peter Heininger, Justus van Beusekom, Jürgen Gandraß, Daniel Pröfrock Federal Institute of Hydrology (BAFG) Lars Düster, Katharina Schütze, Marie Maßmig, Ole Rössler, Stephan Dietrich, Jörg Uwe Belz, Christine Borgsmüller, Sebastian Buchinger, Authors & Arne Wick, Vera Breitung, Thomas Hoffmann, Institutes Acronyms Elmar Fuchs, Axel Winterscheid, Silke Rademacher, Gudrun Hillebrand, Helmut Fischer Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) Ingrid Holzwarth, Nils Huber UNITED KINGDOM University of Birmingham (UOB) Chris Bradley DANUBIUS-PP Deliverable 2.5 Science & Innovation Agenda (draft) University of Stirling (USTIR) Andrew Tyler, Adriana Constantinescu, Peter Hunter, Evangelos Spyrakos, Armando Marino Natural Environment Research Council – Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Mike Bowes, Gareth Old Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) Victor Martinez, Steve Groom ROMANIA National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology (GEM) Adrian Stanica, Michael Schultz, Maria Ionescu, Dan Secrieru, Dan Vasiliu National Institute Research and Development for Biological Sciences (INSB) Manuela Sidoroff, Simona Litescu, Mihaela Paun Romanian National Research and Education Network (ROEDU) Octavian Rusu, Paul Gasner ESTONIA Europportunities (EUROP) Franck Brottier IRELAND University College Cork (UCC) Jeremy Gault, Stephen Flood NETHERLANDS Deltares (DLT) Jos Brils, Henriette Otter, Gerald Jan Ellen Delft Institute for Water Education (UNESCO- IHE) Ken Irvine DANUBIUS-PP Deliverable 2.5 Science & Innovation Agenda (draft) AUSTRIA WasserCluster Lunz (WCL) Thomas Hein, Eva Feldbacher HUNGARY Széchenyi István University (SZE) Istvan Forizs SPAIN Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Vicente Gracia FRANCE University of Lorraine (UL) Davide Vignati, Phillipe Useglio ITALY Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR) Georg Umgießer, Debora Bellafiore, Francesca de Pascalis GREECE Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) Georgios Sylaios Final (F) Status: Draft (D) Revised draft (RV) Public (PU) Restricted to other program participants (PP) Restricted to a Dissemination Level: group specified by the consortium (RE) Confidential, only for members of the consortium (CO) DANUBIUS-PP Deliverable 2.5 Science & Innovation Agenda (draft) TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................. 1 PREAMBLE .............................................................................................................................. 4 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Vision & Mission........................................................................................................... 9 1.2 Methodological Approach ............................................................................................11 2. RESEARCH PRIORITIES .......................................................................................................19 2.1 Climate Change ..........................................................................................................23 2.1.1 Climate Change & Climate Variability ............................................................... 23 2.1.2 Extreme Events ................................................................................................ 27 2.2 Water Sufficiency ........................................................................................................31 2.2.1 Changes in Hydromorphology .......................................................................... 32 2.2.2 Eutrophication & Hypoxia ................................................................................. 37 2.2.3 Pollution ........................................................................................................... 42 2.3 Sediments & their Management ..................................................................................47 2.3.1 Sediment Quality & Quantity ............................................................................ 48 2.3.2 Sediment Management .................................................................................... 52 2.4 Ecosystem Health .......................................................................................................55 2.4.1 Ecosystem Functioning & Biodiversity .............................................................. 56 2.4.2 Ecosystem Services ......................................................................................... 59 2.5 Living with Change in River-Sea Systems ...................................................................62 3. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY OF RESEARCH PRIORITIES .......................................................64 3.1 Role of Components & their Interactions .....................................................................66 3.1.1 Hub .................................................................................................................. 66 3.1.2 Nodes .............................................................................................................. 67 3.1.3 Supersites ........................................................................................................ 77 3.1.4 Data Centre ...................................................................................................... 83 3.1.5 Technology Transfer Office .............................................................................. 84 3.1.6 Interactions between Components ................................................................... 85 3.2 Role of DANUBIUS Commons ....................................................................................88 3.3 DANUBIUS-RI's Services............................................................................................90 4. DANUBIUS-RI IN RESEARCH & RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE LANDSCAPE ...........................94 4.1 DANUBIUS-RI in European and Global Research Landscape ....................................95 4.2 DANUBIUS-RI in the European and Global RI Landscape ..........................................98 5. MONITORING DANUBIUS-RI’S PERFORMANCE .................................................................. 102 6. UPDATING THE SCIENCE & INNOVATION AGENDA ................................................................ 104 ANNEX I - DPSIR FRAMEWORK APPLIED TO EUROPEAN RIVER-SEA SYSTEMS ........................ 106 ANNEX II - OVERVIEW OF SUPERSITES CHARACTERISTICS ...................................................... 107 ANNEX III - ABBREVIATION LIST ............................................................................................. 114 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................... 117 1 DANUBIUS-PP Deliverable 2.5 Science & Innovation Agenda (draft) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This document presents the Science and Innovation Agenda (SIA) for DANUBIUS-RI: a dedicated Research Infrastructure (RI) to advance interdisciplinary research (IDR) on River- Sea (RS) systems. The vision for the RI is to provide research facilities that spanning the freshwater and marine environments and hence ‘make river – sea systems’ work by drawing upon new developments in environmental analysis, observation, and modelling, to address current and emerging challenges that confront diverse RS systems across Europe. The intention is to maximise the benefit to society by enhancing resilience and enabling Europe to develop “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion1”. This is encapsulated in the “Europe 2020” strategy, which reflects the ambition to generate a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as a way to overcome the structural weaknesses in Europe's economy, improve its competitiveness and productivity and underpin a sustainable social market economy2”. DANUBIUS-RI is currently (2018/19) receiving preparatory phase funding support from the EU through a Coordination and Support Action (DANUBIUS-PP), drawing together contributions from 30 institutions in 16 countries. DANUBIUS-RI occupies a unique position in the European RI roadmap as it spans freshwater and marine environments and caters for a range of disciplines across these domains. DANUBIUS-RI will comprise both new and existing components and the intention is to bring these together under a single European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). It is hoped, subject to agreement and support of member states, to establish DANUBIUS-ERIC by 2022. This will be a legal entity offering facilities that