The 2011 ESFRI symposium, schedule to be held in Brest, France, from the 28th of June until the 1st of July 2011, aims to:

• identify the major challenges for marine science of this century,
• foster interactions between managers and users of the RIs, including sponsors, scientists, industry and stakeholders.

The symposium is organised in seven sessions and public and non-public parallel workshops:

Sessions:

• Oppening - Day 1
• What are the added values of the integrated research infrastructures in marine sciences? - Day 1
• Feedbacks from existing large integrated infrastructures - Day 1 and Day 2
• Poster - Day 1
• Marine integrated infrastructures and users: what are the major scientific challenges of the 21st century? How do large infrastructures meet these challenges? - Day 2
• Marine integrated infrastructures: European strategy for governance and funding - Day 3

Public Workshops:

• EuroMarine: Coordination action project targeting the three marine science FP6 Networks of Excellence EUR-OCEANS, MarBEF and Marine Genomics Europe - WP4 Round Table - Day 3

• JERICO: Joint European Research Infrastructure network for Coastal Observatories - New observing systems for VOS: from RECOPESCA to CANOE - Day 3

• Euro-Argo: European component of a worldwide in situ global ocean observing system, based on autonomous profiling floats - Scientific presentations on EuroArgo - Day 3 

For more information see.

Venue: Brest, France