Lead organization: Denmark's Technical University (DTU)
Duration: 2025–2028
ICES contacts:
Carlos Pinto, Data Systems Analyst
Álfrún Sigurdardóttir, Communications and Publications Team Lead
Lise Cronne-Grigorov, Professional Projects Officer
The aim of the Smart4SAM project is to develop an end-to-end management framework for quality assurance of age and maturity data, as well as their integration into stock assessments building on the online platform
SmartDots.
Smart4SAM will expand the SmartDots software with functionalities to create reference collection, adapt and test stock assessment models to data integrate uncertainty derived from these collections. It will also use artificial intelligence to support biological data interpretation and integration into SmartDots.
Smart4SAM will focus on vulnerable stocks and commercially and ecologically important species, while the tools, protocols and guidelines developed during the project are generic and will be readily transferable across species and regions. SmartDots is an open access platform promoting exchange of knowledge, methodologies, and data utilization, benefiting scientists and fisheries managers within and beyond the European borders.
The project Smart4SAM has received funding from the European Union under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF), Grant Agreement No. 101241407.
