Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association

The internet relies on submarine telecommunication cables that criss-cross our oceans, connecting countries and continents. Yet, the oceans remain among the most underexplored areas of our planet. The SUBMERSE project (SUBMarinE cables for ReSearch and Exploration) aims to utilise existing technologies to retrofit fibre optic cables as sensors for monitoring planetary processes beneath the waves, achieved by attaching fibre optic interrogators at landing stations.Running for over two years, the project has achieved notable successes in developing innovative technologies and analytical techniques. These advancements have expanded the use of telecommunication cables for fibre sensing and enabled the creation of data products, primarily in geoscience and marine science.For instance, we have developed an automated, machine-learning-based algorithm for analysing earthquake waveforms and measuring ocean surface gravity waves using seafloor Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) recordings. Furthermore, new DAS technologies have been introduced, such as the ability to monitor relative temperature changes via submarine cable fibres. The project has also demonstrated the harmonious coexistence of DAS with active telecommunications traffic on the same fibre and successfully deployed state-of-polarisation (SOP) measurements synchronised with an atomic clock in one of the most remote locations in the world.However, geopolitical events and incidents involving suspected targeting of critical submarine infrastructure have posed challenges to international data sharing. While adhering to the FAIR principles, we address the evolving complexities of sharing data that may contain sensitive information alongside valuable research content. To mitigate these risks, we have implemented robust AI software and processes to securely clear data for research purposes.This presentation will detail the activities, achievements, and challenges of the SUBMERSE project, which strives to develop a pilot research instrument and provide a blueprint for continuous monitoring of Earth's systems across and between continents.

The integration of state-of-the-art fibre optic sensing technologies with telecommunication systems has not yet been achieved. There are many challenges which need to be overcome to allow for a pan-continental research instrument, all of which requires international collaboration. Such international collaborations would allow for the creation of novel applications and research into Earth science, such as cetology and abiotic and biotic marine interactions, oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and soundscape monitoring, to name but a few.Over the past 5 years, research teams from National seismic and oceanographic infrastructures, together with National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), and partners from universities, research institutes and industry have pioneered sensing techniques to use submarine optical telecommunication fibres to monitor the Earth and its systems.Fibre sensing technology and collaborations created by developing these techniques have now reached a level where a new paradigm shift can occur. This presentation will discuss the SUBMERSE project (SUBMarinE cables for ReSearch and Exploration), which is creating and delivering a pilot research instrument which could serve as a blueprint for continuous monitoring upon many more existing submarine fibre optic cables in the future.The SUBMERSE project, which started in May 2023, is a Horizon Europe-funded, 36-month long initiative which is investigating the combined acquisition of SOP (State-of-Polarisation) and DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) data from live telecom cables, with the aim to then make that data available to researchers globally and F.A.I.R. The project team, consisting of 24 organisations, uses existing fibre-optic infrastructure deployed across multiple national research infrastructures to create a pan-European research instrument.Our presentation will discuss the latest field deployments of DAS and SOP technologies across 5 geographic locations on 3 cable systems, which are spread across the European continent and Atlantic Ocean. It will offer a first glimpse of the effects of running a DAS in the L-and C- Bands on a live DWDM telecoms system, in combination with SOP, in a submarine and terrestrial environment.The aim of the SUBMERSE project is to disseminate the data following FAIR principles through established community data centres. The main challenges we have faced relate to ensuring compliance to security restrictions and handling huge data quantities generated by DAS.  The approaches to down sampling, frequency filtering, and potentially time-and-space-gating will also be presented.  We will discuss the approaches taken for acquiring, streaming from remote sites, data staging, pre-processing and raw file retention. We will also highlight the tools and approaches that we have adopted to develop best practices for running such a multi-national, distributed, sensing instrument which must take these elements into account.Our work has shown that a pragmatic approach, with collaboration at heart, is needed to address these challenges. Without a strong commitment and collaboration between research communities and research infrastructure providers, the potential to lose valuable research data is high. This risk can be mitigated by focusing on datasets which are valuable to communities and ensuring the long-term availability of those data sets in a F.A.I.R manner.

O trabalho apresenta o processo de mobilização social da juventude Terena durante o IV Encontro da Juventude Terena para construir uma articulação entre jovens Terena de diferentes aldeias e municípios do Mato Grosso do Sul, com vistas a fortalecer e contribuir com o Movimento Indígena e o protagonismo juvenil. Através da observação participante e de diálogos com jovens Terena analisamos as formas que estão sendo desenvolvidos instrumentos de interação, diálogo e ligação da juventude indígena para que suas reinvindicações sejam ouvidas, assim como as trocas de experiências, em prol dos direitos dos povos indígenas. São manifestações ainda recentes, que oferecem novas e possíveis formas de vivenciar e interpretar a situação que se encontra, hoje, os povos indígenas do Estado.

In this article, we provide an overview of the emerging research area on Analytics and Video-Based Learning. Although there are many and diverse ways of designing learning videos, there is limited understanding of the efficacy and usefulness of each method. Therefore, we survey the state-of-the-art in the design, development and evaluation of open and video-based courses. The main objective is to highlight the importance and benefits of analytics and to support instructors with the appropriate resources for improving the use of their courses. This can be achieved by combining and analyzing learners' interactions with other available data obtained from learners, as such video analytics open new avenues for research on open and video-based courses. In addition to the guidelines for video-based analytics we have selected five indicative case-studies that provide in-depth analysis..

In 1995 occupational therapy programmes in Europe founded a network in Aalborg, Denmark, with the aim of advancing the education of occupational therapists and the body of knowledge of the discipline. The European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education (ENOTHE) is one of 43 other academic networks supported by the European Commission. The achievements, impact and obstacles in the work of ENOTHE will be discussed.