The International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems (DANUBIUS-RI) will be a distributed research infrastructure that brings together world leading expertise  and provides access to a range of river-sea systems, facilities and expertise, to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ for knowledge exchange, access to harmonized data, a platform for interdisciplinary research, education and training and hence provide answers to questions regarding sustainable management and environmental protection of the RS continuum. The component of the infrastructure of DANUBIUS-RI are: the  Hub located in Murighiol Romania, 4 nodes: UK (Observation Node), Germany (Analysis Node), Italy (Modelling Node) and The Netherlands (Impact Node) and 12 supersites located in River Rhine, River Rhone/Meuse delta, Guadalquivir estuary, Tay catchment, Upper Danube Austria, Thames estuary, Nestos, Po Delta, Szigetkoz, Elbe-North Sea Supersite, Ebro Llobregat, Danube Delta), a Technology Transfer Office located in Ireland,  Data Centre located in Romania. Click to enlarge the map.

In addition to those 20 components, DANUBIUS-RI can also count on Accredited Service Providers (ASPs) – i.e. research institutions or other organisations contributing to DANUBIUS-RI with scientific expertise (staff), equipment or data.
Accredited Service Providers, i.e. research institutions with excellent expertise but with no leadership in a Node, Supersite or Supporting facility. ASPs are associated to activities and services within the Nodes.