Governance & Funding

The work about governance and legal structure has defined the organisation of partners for the long term operation of the Euro-Argo infrastructure. A detailed description of the Euro-Argo ERIC statutes and the technical and scientific document with the role of the different institutions is available. This work will continue during 2011 in the frame of WP7 and partners have to iterate with their ministries about ERIC statutes.

The financial work has to define and consolidate the national financial commitments to the Argo infrastructure (seeking long term commitments) and in parallel to define and set up other funding sources (in particular through GMES) to meet the overall objective of Europe to operate an array of 800 floats with a deployment of about 250 floats per year.