This meeting will explore recent technological developments in the EMODnet and Copernicus Marine data offering and will provide details on the key role of these two EU marine data services in the European Digital Twin of the Ocean, with a presentation on the infrastructure project (EDITO, https://dive.edito.eu/) and EDITO-Model Lab, including ways that research, academia and wider stakeholders can get involved, including upcoming funding opportunities to exploit the EMODnet and Copernicus Marine Service common data lake and EDITO resources for big data analyses, ocean prediction, and more.
Both EMODnet and Copernicus Marine are operational marine data services of the European Commission, with EMODnet as the most diverse pan-European service for in situ data offering hundreds of parameters across the seven thematics of bathymetry, biology, chemistry, geology, human activities, physics and seabed habitats in one single Portal, and the Copernicus Marine Service offering a rich and unique ocean data catalogue across blue, white and green parameters, available to download and visualise via its Marine Data Store (MDS), and including model hindcasts, nowcast and forecasts, ocean monitoring indicators, unparalleled satellite and targeted in situ data. The features of both services will be explored and discussed at this meeting.

EMODnet and Copernicus Marine Service are working together to deliver a shared, high performance, cloud based, data science platform as a key contribution to the European Digital Twin Ocean, that offers users a new toolbox to preform big data analyses with data and data products from EMODnet and Copernicus Marine Service, and model applications such as prediction, forecasting and scenarios. This platform, called EDITO, follows the paradigm of ‘bringing the compute to the data’, recognizing that it is more efficient to run analytics and code as close to Big Data as possible. EDITO II starts in 2025 and represents a scaling up of the existing EDITO infrastructure, as part of EDITO II there is funding available for innovative ideas that make use of the features of the EDITO platform, and this funding mechanism will be explained.

Join us for an informative, interactive discussion, where we welcome the scientific community across all domains to learn more about the European Union’s assets for Marine Knowledge, and for you to give us your feedback, advice and new ideas for the future developments of EMODnet, Copernicus Marine Service and EDITO.