€6m Horizon Europe Sustainability Project

About Fish-X

Fish-X is a global consortium of 10 partners from Germany, France, Croatia, Portugal and Belgium. Their aim is to enable data-driven decisions, knowledge sharing, stakeholder education and positive impact on the journey towards a sustainable fisheries sector as laid out in the EU Green Deal: “European farmers and fishers are key to managing the transition [to a more sustainable food policy]. The Farm to Fork Strategy will strengthen their efforts to tackle climate change,protect the environment and preserve biodiversity.”

Together We Solve

The process of developing a collaborative grant application to secure grant funding from horizon Europe needs careful management. The partners first formed a core group who were able to scope the project, identify missing skills and invite collaborators to the consortium.

Successful Outcomes

The consortium has a shared vision to produce a user-friendly, open, interoperable and integrated portal that improves on Google’s Global Fishing Watch project by utilising:

• European Excellency: Knowledge in the Fishing Sector from world-leading organisations such as Sciaena and World Wildlife Foundation (project partners)
• Novel and existing infrastructure: Extensive monitoring of fishing activity across the globe based on existing infrastructure which will be complemented by cutting-edge technology (use cases). Project partner North.io provides the link to MARISPACE-X, it being a lead partner in that funded project.
• State-of-the-Art Intelligence: Advanced predictive models based on novel applications of big data, machine learning and AI-technology. To be developed and delivered by CLS, North.io and OURZ.
• Data Security and Sovereignty: Using European standards, servers and complying with EU regulations on the use of data.