Bridging scientific knowledge & policy needs

The uses the subsurface will only increase and diversify with the continued green energy transition, and therefore the management of the subsurface is a pressing issue.

As the coordinator of the GeoConnect³d project, I have helped to develop and test a new methodological approach to prepare and disclose geological information online in a more useful and understandable way for policy support and subsurface management. This innovative bottom-up approach the two concepts of structural framework and geomanifestations to increase the geological understanding of an area, with the goal to provide a coherent geological context for evaluating subsurface applications and resolving subsurface management issues. The resulting GIS-based framework is the first of its kind and represents an unprecedented effort of geoscientific data gathering and harmonisation throughout Europe.

All results are publicly available on the project's website.

Read more about the contribution of geomanifestations in policy support.

Project funded by the European Commission (2018-2021).