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The AQUACOSM project is committed to providing a safe, open, and respectful environment for participants to its Symposium. The AQUACOSM project encourages all symposium participants to pursue integrity, honesty, respect, courtesy, responsibility, rigour, and equity in their professional activities.
All participants at the 2nd International Aquatic Mesocosm Research Symposium are expected to follow the Code of Content and the Rules of Conduct that are outlined here. Should you observe violations against these rules please contact the Organising Committee chair at <a href="mailto:symposium@aquacosm.eu">symposium@aquacosm.eu</a>. Messages to this address are treated confidentially. They are read by the Organising Committee and only AQUACOSM persons of trust will be notified. Violations to the rules will be taken seriously and appropriate actions will be taken where necessary. 
<h2>Respectful behaviour</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Professional and respectful conduct of all attendees is expected.</li>
	<li>Bullying, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated – and may result in immediate exclusion from the meeting.</li>
	<li>These rules are valid for all kinds of content and interaction during the Symposium: display materials, presentations, discussions, text-based chats, online commenting on display materials, as well as social gatherings online.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Recording and screenshots</h2>
It is prohibited to take screenshots or record live online presentations in any sessions unless the presenter authorizes it. Presenters are encouraged to inform the audience if they welcome screenshots or sharing on social media.
<h2>Social media</h2>
The AQUACOSM project encourages open discussion on social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and blogging platforms during the Symposium. The following rules aim to provide means by which Symposium participants can embrace social media, while at the same time remaining respectful of presenting authors’ work and protecting their research output:
<ul>
	<li>Never post any images or video online related to the presentations without the authors’ explicit permission.</li>
	<li>The default assumption is to allow open discussion of Symposium presentations on social media. However, please respect any request from an author not to disseminate the contents of their presentation.</li>
	<li>If you will be presenting your work at a press conference after your scientific presentation, please ask those in the online session not to post about your research until after the press conference has taken place.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Personal and Scientific Data</h2>
All Personal Data collected from the Abstract Submission and Registration Platforms (managed by “ERA CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION TOURISM ENTERPRISES LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LTD”), and shared with the AQUACOSM project, are treated and processed in accordance with the provisions of the European Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the Protection of Personal Data (“GDPR”) and the applicable legislation implementing or supplementing the same or otherwise relating to the Processing of Personal Data of natural persons, together with the binding guidance and codes of practise issued from time to time by relevant supervisory authorities (“Data Protection Laws”).
The detailed Personal Data Protection Policy can be found at ERA’s website:
<a href="http://www.era.gr/personal-data-policy">www.era.gr/personal-data-policy</a>   
All Personal and Scientific Data shared with the AQUACOSM project will be stored and used for processing your access application, for statistical and administrative purposes according to the EC funding and reporting obligations as well as for statistical analysis of the AQUACOSM network projects services and User community. Data saved by the AQUACOSM project on behalf of the European Commission will be forwarded to the European Commission for official use only, and will remain confidential. The AQUACOSM project will not make personal details available to other organisations without the knowledge of the Users, unless obliged by law.
The information listed below, connected to abstract submission, will be made public on the AQUACOSM website and Social Media and will appear on the “Book of Abstracts” only if the abstract is accepted for presentation. 
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	<li>Title</li>
	<li>Keywords</li>
	<li>Name and affiliations of all authors (including email address of the presenting and/or corresponding author)</li>
	<li>Abstract text</li>
</ul>
<h2>Code of Conduct</h2>
General Principles
The AQUACOSM project is committed to providing an ethically correct, equitable, safe, open, and respectful environment for scientific and networking activities. The AQUACOSM project encourages all Symposium participants to pursue integrity, honesty, respect, courtesy, responsibility, rigour and equity in their professions.
In particular:
<ul>
	<li>The AQUACOSM project values diversity and equality as essential values to ensure an ethically correct and respectful approach to scientific research. Discrimination, harassment, bullying, coercion, intimidation, censorship and plagiarism are considered unethical behaviours.</li>
	<li>The AQUACOSM project requires that Symposium presenters carry out research and draw their conclusions based on critical analysis of the evidence. Findings and interpretations are expected to be reported fully, accurately and objectively, along with the related uncertainties.</li>
	<li>The AQUACOSM project encourages the use of reporting methods that ensure verification and reproducibility by others. Making data findable, openly accessible and interoperable, and allowing data exchange and re-use between researchers, are encouraged, as are making software and codes accessible.</li>
	<li>The AQUACOSM project emphasises that author/contributor credit should only be given to those who have meaningfully contributed to research. The names and roles of all people who made significant contributions should be properly acknowledged.</li>
	<li>The Symposium attendees are required to disclose any conflict of interest that could compromise the trustworthiness of their work.</li>
	<li>The AQUACOSM project encourages attendees to clearly distinguish professional, scientific-based comments from their personal opinions when publicly presenting their work and/or engaging in public discussions related to Symposium activities.</li>
</ul>
For Presenters and Authors
Presenters are expected to carefully report methodology, assumptions and uncertainty in order to present a precise and accurate account of the research performed and its results and conclusions. All authors on a presentation and/or abstract should have agreed to their co-authorship and must have contributed significantly to it, and vice versa—all persons who contributed to the work need to be named in the list of authors. Corresponding authors are required to inform all co-authors of the changes that are made to the submitted manuscript when preparing revised versions. All co-authors share responsibility for the quality and integrity of the submitted and published abstract.
For Reviewers
Reviewers are expected to conduct a clear and unbiased abstract review in a timely manner. Reviewers are required to avoid any conflict of interest and to adhere to the highest ethical standards set out by the relevant scientific community. Each abstract should be judged based on its merits without any personal bias. Reviewers are required to adhere to the review criteria set out by the Scientific Committee. Reviewers may never use or disclose unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations contained in a submitted abstract under consideration and should never include personal criticism of an author.
For Symposium Attendees
An open and respectful conduct, based on basic politeness, is expected of all meeting attendees. Presenters are asked to familiarise themselves with specific presenter guidelines for the meeting, as well as with the Symposium Online Platform.
Attendees at the AQUACOSM symposium should be aware that:
<ul>
	<li>It is prohibited to copy any presentation materials (unless it is permitted by the presenter)</li>
	<li>It is prohibited to take photos or record scientific material shown in any type of presentation unless the presenter authorises it</li>
	<li>AQUACOSM project follows the guidelines for consent related to pictures of a person in a public space established in the country where the activity is being held. The AQUACOSM project recommends obtaining the permission of any person recorded if they appear in an identifiable way.</li>
</ul>
Reporting violations during or after meetings 
Violations should be reported to the Organising Committee via email: <a href="mailto:symposium@aquacosm.eu">symposium@aquacosm.eu</a>
Messages to this address are treated confidentially. They are read by the Organising Committee and only AQUACOSM persons of trust will be notified about them.

AQUACOSM Symposium Terms and Conditions and Code of Conduct

AQUACOSM-plus Privacy Policy

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You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website. 
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy. 
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.aquacosm.eu 
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Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the "Privacy &amp; Cookie Policy" tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
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Metadata submission guide. Introduction

<a href="https://youtu.be/-VrlZVd1KSo" target=“_blank”>https://youtu.be/-VrlZVd1KSo</a>

Metadata submission guide. Part 1: Registering on the Mesocosm Metadata Catalogue.

<a href="https://youtu.be/7qCk3ZSxNBI" target=“_blank”>https://youtu.be/7qCk3ZSxNBI</a>

Metadata submission guide. Part 2: Submission process

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Personal Data collected: Camera permission.

 
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Information about this privacy policy 

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Data Subject 

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Data Processor (or Data Supervisor) 

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Privacy Policy of AQUACOSM

<h2>AQUACOSM: the EU-network connecting freshwater and marine large experimental research infrastructures</h2>
Rivers, lakes, estuaries and the open ocean are connected and it’s becoming evident that ecosystem processes act on many scales, including global. Despite this, aquatic research is still divided in marine and freshwater sciences, with separate funding sources, and experimental science is often conducted at single sites without international coordination. To challenge these problems, the FvB-IGB-lead project AQUACOSM is funded by the first international call (EU H2020-INFRAIA) to coordinate research, develop common best practices and open both freshwater and marine large-scale research infrastructures (mesocosms) for international cross-discipline participation.
<a href="https://www.aquacosm.eu/project-information/aquacosm/">Read More &gt;&gt;</a>
<h2>AQUACOSM-plus: Network of Leading Ecosystem Scale Experimental AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans in Europe and beyond</h2>
AQUACOSM-plus advances European mesocosm-based aquatic RI by integrating the leading mesocosm infrastructures into a coherent, interdisciplinary, and interoperable network covering all ecoregions of Europe. AQUACOSM-plus widens the user base by extending TA provision (&gt; 13000 person-days), and strengthening the offered services, with 10 new partners, including an NGO and doubling of SMEs. We initiate actions to increase competence in mesocosm science in new EU member states (Hungary and Romania), and emphasize training of young scientists through summer schools covering various disciplines including effective science communication. AQUACOSM-plus develops near-real-time Open Data flows and improved metadata, thus promoting Open Mesocosm Science in collaboration with leading EU-supported initiatives in the EOSC and fosters wider sharing of information, knowledge, and technologies across fields and between academia, industry, and policy makers/advisers.
<a href="https://www.aquacosm.eu/project-information/aquacosm-plus/">Read More &gt;&gt;</a>

Project Information

<h2>AQUACOSM-plus: Network of Leading Ecosystem Scale Experimental AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans in Europe and beyond</h2>
AQUACOSM-plus advances European mesocosm-based aquatic RI by integrating the leading mesocosm infrastructures into a coherent, interdisciplinary, and interoperable network covering all ecoregions of Europe. AQUACOSM-plus widens the user base by extending <a href="/transnational-access">TA provision</a> (&gt; 13000 person-days), and strengthening the offered services, with 10 new partners, including an NGO and doubling of SMEs. We initiate actions to increase competence in mesocosm science in new EU member states (Hungary and Romania), and emphasise training of young scientists through summer schools covering various disciplines including effective science communication. AQUACOSM-plus develops near-real-time Open Data flows and improved metadata, thus promoting Open Mesocosm Science in collaboration with leading EU-supported initiatives in the <a href="https://eosc-portal.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EOSC</a> and fosters wider sharing of information, knowledge, and technologies across fields and between academia, industry, and policy makers/advisers.
AQUACOSM-plus develops new technological capabilities for mesocosm research, to effectively execute scenario-testing for Climate Change -related pressures on aquatic systems from upstream fresh waters to the sea. These developments include mobile large-scale mesocosm approaches, leading-edge imaging technologies, and affordable methods to obtain high- frequency data on community change and greenhouse gas fluxes in mesocosm settings.
AQUACOSM-plus will progress beyond current achievements by actively pursuing RI-RI collaboration with European environmental RIs (<a href="https://lternet.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LTER</a>, <a href="https://www.icos-cp.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ICOS</a>, <a href="https://www.danubius-ri.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DANUBIUS</a>, <a href="https://www.jerico-ri.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">JERICO</a>) at all project activity levels (NA, JRA, TA). Multidisciplinary joint research, combining observational data and modelling approaches with targeted mesocosm experiments, is a key step towards successfully tackling current and future Grand Challenges. This involves shared capacity building via symposia, expert summits, and open workshops, with the aim of co-designing future aquatic research actions and their RI demands.

Project: H2020-INFRAIA-2019-1-project number No 871081 "AQUACOSM-plus: Network of Leading Ecosystem Scale Experimental AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities
Connecting Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans in Europe and beyond" 
Start Date: 01/04/2020
Duration: 48 Months
Funded by: European Commission, Directorate-General for Research &amp; Innovation, Budget €9 999 563.00
Direction: Dr. Jens Nejstgaard (Project leader), nejstgaard@igb-berlin.de, Dr. Stella Berger (Transnational Access leader), berger@igb-berlin.

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About AQUACOSM-plus

Dr. Jens Christian Nejstgaard

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Project Coordinator

Katharina Makower

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Project Manager

Dr. Stella A. Berger

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Transnational Access (TA) coordinator

Coordination Team

<h2>Management tasks</h3>

<h4>Selection of users for Transnational Access</h4>
Large publicity will be given to the opportunity to use the unique AQUACOSM-network of mesocosm facilities for research projects via various channels as the AQUACOSM-webpage, electronic newsletters, announcements at conferences, mailing lists of international programmes. The potential users can submit the proposal for research projects they plan to carry out at one or several AQUACOSM facilities electronically through the Transnational Mesocosm Portal. The User Selection Panel will select the users on the basis of the criteria listed in WP4 below, primarily focusing on scientific quality of the proposed research projects, and to prioritise access to users that do not have access to corresponding mesocosms in their own countries. Selection procedures will take place twice a year. All users will be invited to publish a summary of their projects at the Transnational Mesocosm Portal (WP4). They will also be encouraged to join the final symposium and present their projects (WP2). It is also foreseen that users with research projects which give insight into new techniques related to the use of mesocosm facilities will be invited to give a talk at the summer school or workshops (WP2).

<h4>Internal communication, network integration, meetings and reporting</h4>
The communication strategy adopted in the project aims at keeping all partners fully informed about the status of the different activities. For internal exchange of documents and reports, a web-based filing system for the documentation storage accessible to all partners will be implemented by the Project Office in collaboration with especially Partner 3 NIOO/KNAW, who brings extensive knowledge in Data Management to the consortium. The Project Office is also responsible for the organisation of meetings and workshops and the activities of the User Selection Panel.

Table 3.1 lists relevant meetings to take place during the course of the project.
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Persons / Bodies
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Meeting frequency
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General Assembly
All partners &amp; Stakeholders, as
appropriate
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Once a year
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Steering Committee
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Twice a year, of which one is planned to be virtual
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Advisory Board
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Running contact, Physical meeting twice.
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WP meetings
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Twice a year (of which one may be virtual), continuously by web/ phone/email;
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Project Office team
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Minimum every 21 days by web/phone/email
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<h4>Knowledge Management and Consortium Agreement </h4>

The acquired knowledge during the project will be subject to agreement with balance between openness and confidentiality. Any result provided by a participant in the project will be considered as confidential information and will not be transmitted in any format to a third party and distributed for final agreement expected within the timeframe of the EC grant procedure. This agreement, which will be signed by all partners, will regulate the handling of intellectual property rights (IPR) and make the basis for the development of an exploitation plan for the results obtained in the project (see also WP4). It will also cover the decision making structure and the obligations of partners and bodies. Any amendment of the Consortium Agreement has to be accepted by the Steering Committee. All beneficiaries must ensure that all their participants adhere to the Consortium Agreement.

Governance

A dedicated Advisory Board will be established for AQUACOSM. The main role of the STAB will be to help to guarantee the delivery of high scientific and technical quality output from the project, and to ensure that the project partners keep an open and effective dialog with present and potentially relevant networks and infrastructures. In that function, the STAB will act as a constant internal review mechanism, advising independently with both quality control and risk management. While generally being asked on views and advice on specific issues, the STAB will be free to express its opinion on any aspect of AQUACOSM activity and performance.
The STAB will also advise on the outreach to the wider scientific and stakeholder communities not directly involved in the project and for benefiting from independent, external expertise. The STAB will be established at the beginning of the project, and will have up to 8-10 members all expected to be serving in their personal capacity. Primarily the STAB will consist of leading scientists in their fields, but members will also be sought from regional, national decision maker communities.
The STAB may call on additional experts on an ad hoc basis, should the need arise. The STAB will meet physically at least twice during the life of the project, with meetings scheduled to precede those of the internal interim reports and project reviews, and in conjunction with meetings of the General Assembly. For the full duration of the project, members of the STAB are expected to be available at any time for specific questions. The STAB will primarily advise and work with the Project Coordinator and Steering Committee, but deliver its main reports to the General Assembly.
Confirmed STAB members (may be expanded):
Dr. Ari Asmi, Coordinator of ENVRI-FAIR, RISCAPE &amp; RI-TRAIN RI-projects, also representing ICOS-ERIC &amp; ENVRI-community, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Dr. Michael Mirtl, Coordinator of the LTER-Europe, eLTER H2020 project, eLTER-RI, <a href="http://www.lter-europe.net/elter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ILTER </a>networks and initiatives, Umweltbundesamt, Austria.
Dr. Ion Navodaru, Representing INCDDD/DDNRI, Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development (<a style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;" href="http://ddni.ro/wps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DDNIRD</a>), Tulcea, Romania, which supports GEO-ECO-MAR the coordinator for DANUBIUS-RI initiative, a critical advisory enabling successful AQUACOSM-plus initiatives in Romania.
Prof. Dr. Deborah Bronk, President and CEO, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine, USA and has a high-level network and knowledge from marine and freshwater science including mesocosm studies. Former president of ASLO, and Director of Div. of Ocean Science, National Science Foundation, USA.
Prof. Dr. Beatrix Beisner: University of Québec, Montreal, Canada, is an internationally renowned expert in experimental lake and mesocosm studies in a wide international network e.g. as Director of the Interuniversity Research Group in Limnology (GRIL), and FRQNT research network across 10 Québec universities, and serves on the Board of Directors of the NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network, all of direct relevance for AQUACOSM-plus.
Prof. Dr. Zhengwen Liu: Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology and Jinan University, Guangzhou, is a central driver and facilitator in the recent development of environmental
<a href="/aquacosm/work-packages">Further information about the Scientific and Technology Advisory Board (STAB) task, Task 1.3. </a>

Facilities

Transnational Access

Metadata & Data

Papers & Reports

Knowledge Base

Media

Facilities

Transnational Access

Metadata & Data

Papers & Reports

Knowledge Base

Media

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