TRANSVERSE
Duration: 108 months
Project leader: CNRS
Partenaires clés : Ifremer, IRD, MNHN
BRIDGES- TRANSVERSE provides transversal support for all program activities, meeting the following objectives:
- Promote the connectivity of scientific work within BRIDGES, through the funding of interface and transversal activities to BRIDGES targeted projects (TPs), and with a concern for the pooling of means and resources.
- Respond to emerging needs and new opportunities for collaboration
- Strengthen interactions with stakeholders
- Support the activities of the Operational Secretariat on cross-cutting activities, such as implementing the communication strategy, setting up cross-TP activities and workshops, and capacity sharing.
Planned activities
From 2024 :
- Creation of a cross-functional Human Resources Department, including the recruitment of 3 engineers over the duration of the program to support cross-TP activities (2026)
- Creation of a collaborative participatory science platform(2026)
- Support for capacity building in scientific computing
- Funding for the deployment of equipment to meet cross-functional needs
- Funding for the acquisition of observational data to complement PC forecasts and achievements, including an observational mission to the Scattered Islands (2027)
- Launch of an offshore campaign project “Capacity sharing and networks” (2026)
- Contribution to partnership research projects on workshop sites (from 2026)
- Support for transversal cross-TP activities along the way: thematic meetings and summer schools, cross-TP workshops
- Support for the implementation of the global communication plan to meet the objectives and regional and international outreach of BRIDGES.