General description

SOCIB is offering access to its glider fleet based in the Balearic Islands. This is a unique opportunity for scientists and engineers to use high-quality autonomous underwater vehicles operating in coastal, shelf and open sea areas for carrying out research, monitoring and/or testing activities.

The SOCIB Glider Facility offers External Users Access to ocean gliders for research and technology development, in complement to its routine and strategic program of glider endurance lines in the Mediterranean sea. For process-oriented studies (e.g. complementing a R/V cruise), a minimum of 7 days usage is required. Longer monitoring proposals of typically 30 days or more are encouraged.

External Users Access

Competitive Open Access

Competitive Open Access calls allow potential users of the glider fleet, as part of their R&D&I projects, priority and advantageous access to SOCIB's glider fleet. SOCIB organizes two ordinary calls per year for Glider Competitive Open Access.

More details are provided in the guideline document for glider competitive access.

To apply to these calls, an application form (using the Application Template that you can download from this link) must be sent to the SOCIB Glider Competitive Access office, using the email address: glider.access@socib.es. Each proposal must contain a comprehensive description of the work to be carried out. For the elaboration of this proposal, the technical team of the SOCIB-Glider Facility can provide support to applicants. The technical and logistical aspects of each proposal will be evaluated by the SOCIB Glider Team and if feasible, the proposal will be assessed by an External Access Committee during the month after the call closure.

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JERICO-S3 Transnational Access

In the frame of the JERICO-S3 EU project (2020-2024), the Transnational Access activity aims to provide coordinated ‘free of charge’ transnational access to researchers or research teams from academia and industry to SOCIB Glider Infrastructure among others. Detailed information about calls and applications is available at www.jerico-ri.eu/ta.

Calls

Previous calls

Missions

Competitive access

The table below summarizes the projects submitted to the SOCIB calls in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 (last update May 2023):

* Second mission canceled due to Covid-19 restrictions

The table below summarizes the projects submitted to the JERICO-S3 calls in 2022 and 2020 (last update May 2023):