COSEA | Collaboration for Effective Sea Action
from 30/05/2024
With the COSEA App, Citizen Scientists can observe marine environments, document coastal habitats or species, and report on pollution, infrastructure and the blue economy. Their contributions on the map and activity in the app will help scientists better understand the impacts and drivers of marine factors to protect and foster a healthy relationship between humans and seas.
As an open, participatory, and community-driven project, COSEA invites actors, stakeholders, environment groups, associations, youth projects, and others to co-use the COSEA App for observations, data collection, and community-building. In the COSEA App, participants can add photos and data, so-called spots, on the map. By submitting their observations and documentation, they can build up an environment notebook in ther user profile and map area. It is also possible to interact, comment, and exchange with others in the user community, or simply respond to the contribution of a friend in the app with a heart or like.
During the course of the project, the SPOTTERON Citizen Science App Platform will be building innovative tools for users, enabling independent and self-governed usage of COSEA for marine and coastal activities. The common goal is to extend a deep care for seas and their resilience in changing times and provide a platform for participants to learn more about marine protection, social impacts and sustainable use of natural resources.
Call for Collaborations
The COSEA App is designed as an open platform for project collaboration. This means that initiatives, organizations, science projects or even small groups of ocean activists can join up and co-use the app toolkit to co-create COSEA together. With every partner, we will work together to optimize the available data categories in the app, as well as include logos and information. Furthermore, we can set up regional, country-based or even local access to the app toolkit's data, which allows independent co-use for partners joining up in COSEA.
As the app is currently in the first prototype phase, collaboration access presently is limited to early access slots. We have currently maximum 3 open slots in the work plan, for which your initiative, project, or organization can apply right here in the form below. Early access means you can co-design with us what data options are available in the app, and we will work together to further improve COSEA as an open platform. Furthermore, we will provide you with full data access for your region/country, and you can co-use a modern and feature-rich app package without any resulting costs.
Apply here: https://www.cosea.app/collaboration-early-access
Aim
COSEA emerged from a collaboration between the following two Horizon Europe projects:
EFFECTIVE
The EFFECTIVE project's mission is to protect and restore the EU’s Mediterranean Blue Natural Capital. By combining cutting-edge science, technological nature-based solutions, digitalization, and social implications, we will create a comprehensive knowledge base and practical guidance for ecosystem-based management.
https://effective-euproject.eu
TRANSEATION
The TRANSEATION project's main objective is to demonstrate the effectiveness of marine and coastal hybrid blue-grey infrastructures and validate a new level of ecosystem-based management. TRANSEATION is combining nature-based solutions, social implications, and digitalization for the protection and restoration of marine ecosystem health and services.
https://transeation-europeanproject.eu
About funding
Funding bodies: European Union (Horizon Europe research and innovation program)
About branding
Profile image design by: SPOTTERON Citizen Science App Platform | www.spotteron.net
Logo design by: SPOTTERON Citizen Science App Platform | www.spotteron.net
Created April 8, 2025, 6:06 p.m.
Updated May 23, 2025, 12:05 a.m.
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