EMA - ECORD Managing Agency

Set up under the authority of the ECORD Council, EMA manages the participation of ECORD members in IODP. The Director of the EMA is the official contact point for ECORD in all relationships with the central management of IODP, IODP-MI, and the Lead Agencies (NSF and MEXT).

:: EMA Office
EMA is administered by the INSU-CNRS, a French national institute that has a central role in the co-ordination of national and international programmes and large infrastructure projects in solid earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences. The EMA office is staffed with a Director assisted by an Executive Secretary and a Scientific Officer. The EMA central office is located in the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG-Paris) and the EMA website and publications office is hosted in the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG-CNRS) in Nancy.

Catherine Mével Director,
ECORD-Net Coordinator,
ERICON AB and DS3F WP Leader
IWG+ Co-Chair		 E-mail
Tel: +33 144 27 51 93
Fax: +33 144 27 99 69
Mohammed Benchikh Executive Secretary,
EC-funded programmes (ECORD-Net, ERICON AB, DS3F)		 E-mail
Tel: +33 144 27 77 43
Fax: +33 144 27 99 69
Patricia Maruéjol Scientific Officer:
Outreach and ECORD web coordination		 E-mail
Tel: +33 383 59 42 18
Fax: +33 383 51 17 98
:: EMA Tasks and Interactions: with ECORD with IODP Communication


:: with ECORD:
EMA, via CNRS-INSU, pools the funds from all the European participants and may accept funds from all the non-European members of ECORD. EMA prepares and signs the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ECORD members and issued requests for a timely contribution of annual funds.

EMA administers the financial contributions from ECORD members made in support of IODP:

EMA provides the ECORD Council with an ECORD programme plan for approval and a budget for each upcoming fiscal year, consistent with the IODP program and budget.

In co-ordination with ESSAC, EMA is responsible for maintaining the scientific and administrative memory of ECORD'S role in IODP.
The EMA director is invited to attend the ECORD Council meetings.
with IODP:
On behalf of ECORD members, EMA signs contracts and the Member Memorandum (referred also as the IODP Memorandum) with MEXT (Japan), NSF (USA) and other IODP funding agencies, on implementation of IODP.
 EMA provides a single ECORD contribution to IODP co-mingled funds to cover the Science Operations Costs (SOCS) of IODP.
EMA represents ECORD in all the relevant IODP committees, panels and task forces.
On the basis of an operational plan from IODP-MI for MSP operation, EMA negotiates a budget in a given year. EMA ensures that the Science Operations Costs (SOCs) are provided from IODP co-mingled funds to the ESO for MSP operations.
:: Communication:
In collaboration with ESO and ESSAC, EMA coordinates ECORD communication such as outreach/public information, and to a lesser extent educational activities related to IODP in Europe:
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