How Can Europe Improve Decision-Making to Tackle Coastal Challenges?
The European Digital Ocean Pavilion will prominently feature the theme of how Europe tackles coastal challenges with nature-based solutions during the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), open to the public from 2 to 13 June 2025. Mercator Ocean has been leading efforts to address coastal challenges through various projects designed to enhance public understanding […]
International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit 2023
Digital twins of the ocean will enhance our capacity to make informed operations, management and policy decisions that influence the processes and systems they mirror, enabling impactful communication that brings data to life. Through complex integration of data, models, analytics, and rules, digital twins resort to cutting-edge cloud services, supercomputing, artificial intelligence, made accessible through […]
Digital Ocean Forum: co-developing an impactful and inclusive European Digital Twin of the Ocean
On 14 and 15 June 2023, the European Commission hosted the Digital Ocean Forum 2023 with support from Mercator Ocean International and the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) – the two main partners leading the development of the core infrastructure of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (EU DTO). This second annual edition of the […]
Introducing the European Digital Twin of the Ocean initiative to the marine community during the European Maritime Day
The European Maritime Day (EMD) took place in Brest, France, on 24-25 May and gathered Europe’s maritime community to outline joint actions concerning maritime affairs and the sustainable blue economy. The European Commission shared its ambition for a European Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) through a stand organised by Mercator Ocean International (MOi) and […]
The Ocean and its Digital Twin for a better decision support tool
Mercator Ocean international (MOi), which has been developing numerical ocean models for the last 20 years, is now engaging into the next step: the Digital Twin of the Ocean, aiming at resolving all the temporal and geographical scales, their mutual interactions and impacts. Several calls for tenders are opening and Mercator Ocean is fully involved […]