Smart Regions asks Giacomo Cuttone, the Scientific Coordinator of Sicily's IDMAR multidisciplinary laboratory how data collected from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea is shared around Europe.
How much data is sent by Europe's largest underwater telescope and where does it go? IDMAR is an EU-funded project that sends spherical underwater nodes deep into the Mediterranean Sea to transmit valuable information to researchers in real time.
Giacomo Cuttone, the scientific coordinator of the IDMAR multidisciplinary laboratory can tell us more.
'A huge amount of data'
"What we have set up is a wired infrastructure, a laboratory that provides data 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We receive more or less the equivalent of one hundred films that can be downloaded by a person in their home per day. So imagine a huge, huge amount of data.
Science 'not concerned' with geopolitics
"We distribute them and store them in two large computer centres, one in Bologna, Italy, and one in Lyon, France. This allows something that is one fundamental point for investing in science which is open data and open science.
"Data and science are open. They're not concerned by countries, wars or divisions because science is the only place where we always find a great union."