The RICC directive is to
- Organise the operational relations between the SIOS activity programme and the partner facilities.
The RICC work programme for 2024
- Contribute to the optimisation call and provide ongoing support to successful applicants.
- Contribute to the Access Call and provide ongoing support to successful applicants.
- Work towards better coordination of logistical services for SIOS members and strengthen cross-institutional collaboration on safety training for fieldwork in Svalbard via information gathering, meetings, workshops and shared training.
- Enhance the Observation Facility Catalogue - by updating all data but also sharing data between platforms.
Associated task forces
- Safety and Logistics Task Force
Key achievements in 2023
- 2 Access Calls: 12 successful applications, working with NORCE (Dornier), UiB (ocean glider), Ny-Ålesund Zeppelin, Sverdrup, Dirigible, AWIPEV and Longyearbyen Norwegian Polar Institute.
- Supported Optimisation Call evaluation, and successful projects.
- Supported Innovation Award evaluation.
- 5 completed Access projects.
- Logistical cooperation between SIOS member institutions.
- Organised a successful workshop on Safety and Logistics (part I).
- Information campaign for the Observation Facility Catalogue.
News from RICC
RICC had 3 online meetings and 2 hybrid meetings in 2023. The hybrid meetings formed part of Polar Night Week 2023 (January) and the Working Group Days in Lillestrøm, Norway, in September 2023. Members of RICC facilitated the first SIOS workshop on Safety and Logistics at MET Norway in October 2023.