EXPLORER is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Staff Exchange (MSCA-SE) project funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101235654.
It promotes international and inter-sectoral mobility among researchers, enabling the exchange of knowledge, skills, and best practices across academia and industry.
The project’s ambitious goal is to develop, validate and apply pioneering photonic technologies, portable, robust and user-friendly, to investigate extreme and remote natural environments directly in situ. These environments are characterized by challenging conditions such as high or low temperatures, inaccessibility, and ecological fragility.
Four target environments (E1-E4)
Field activities will focus on four representative natural settings, chosen for their scientific and environmental relevance:
- E1. Hot springs in volcanic regions
- E2. Glaciers and snowy areas
- E3. Deep lake beds
- E4. Remote or polluted rivers
Each environment will serve as a natural testbed for cutting-edge photonic tools, supporting both scientific discovery and technological innovation.
Through this integrated approach, EXPLORER aims to strengthen research excellence, foster sustainable innovation, and build lasting international cooperation networks.
Mobility within EXPLORER
Mobility is at the heart of EXPLORER.
Through short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges, consortium members will collaborate to:
- Gain intersectoral and interdisciplinary competences, bridging scientific and technological disciplines.
- Improve individual and collective skills, enhancing research, technical and transferable competences.
- Test and validate new technologies under real environmental conditions.
- Reach new insights on extreme environments, fostering discoveries made possible through in situ observation.