AMRIT is a Horizon-Europe project that started in March 2024 and lasts for 4 years. It arises from the will that is shared between the European Commission, the European countries and the Ocean Observing stakeholders to build cohesion and collaboration between the different Observing communities and relative Research Infrastructures (RIs).
AMRIT’s consortium brings together most of the ESFRI landmarks and projects for new RIs concerned with Ocean Observing in Europe. They are the main providers of in situ ocean data for EOOS and Copernicus, and the primary managers of instrumental capacity supporting fundamental research.
AMRIT fosters co-development of digital tools by gathering IT workforce from these RIs and participating institutions. This is made possible by the implementation of the Scrum Team Agile approach that will, during intense periods called sprints, develop new capacities for the tools. Tackling the development of common tools, by IT teams fully integrated by Scrum Agile, but based in different organisations across Europe, is a completely new approach in the world of Marine RIs.
The tools being created serve the RIs directly, by increasing the monitoring capacity, the quality and readiness of the metadata flow to end users. This integrates all RIs efforts into a broader perspective, namely to provide the tools for the operations in future EOOS and beyond for the GOOS.