EUropean test bed for the maritime Common Information Sharing Environment in the 2020 perspective. The general aims of this project include the improvement of the harmonization of the cross-sectorial maritime situation; the assurance for the Member States / Nations to directly control the management of shared information through CISE cross-sector node/nodes; the optimization of available information avoiding, at the same time, the waste of resources due to duplication of existing systems in use and the capability to provide cooperating countries with an open platform to share data, information and services.