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ECORD member countries and funding agencies
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
The European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling is a consortium of 15 European countries, Canada and Israel that was formed in 2003 to join the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) as a single member. ECORD is now part of the International Ocean Discovery Program, which addresses crucial questions in Earth, Ocean, Environmental and Life sciences based on drill cores, borehole imaging, observatory data, and related geophysical imaging obtained from beneath the ocean floor using specialized ocean-going drilling and research vessels and platforms. As a contributing member of IODP, ECORD is entitled to berths on every IODP expedition.