EU Digital Twin Ocean: Contribution to the EU DTO core infrastructure through applications for sustainable ocean management

The funder wants at least two new digital-twin-ocean applications built directly on the EU's EDITO infrastructure, addressing either the implementation of ocean-related EU policy, such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Maritime Spatial Planning Directive or Common Fisheries Policy, or sustainable marine and maritime business use cases such as aquaculture, fisheries or tourism. Each application must be demonstrated across at least three of the EU's four sea basins for a total of six use cases, with the Atlantic and Arctic, Baltic and North Sea, Mediterranean, and Danube River and Black Sea basins between them each covered by at least one use case. Proposals are expected to build on the earlier EDITO-Infra and EDITO-Model Lab projects and to involve end-users and relevant authorities in co-designing each application across data, modelling and visualisation work.