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Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean
| Funder | European Commission |
|---|---|
| Recipient Organization | Vlaams Instituut Voor de Zee |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start Date | Sep 01, 2023 |
| End Date | Feb 28, 2027 |
| Duration | 1,276 days |
| Number of Grantees | 32 |
| Roles | Participant; Associated Partner; Third Party; Coordinator |
| Data Source | European Commission |
| Grant ID | 101112823 |
Grant Description
The ocean and its biodiversity are essential to life on this planet.
Comprehensive data on biodiversity, and related human and environmental pressures are crucial to understand its current state and how this may change.
Protecting and restoring biodiversity is one of three objectives of the Horizon Europe Mission to restore our oceans and waters by 2030, enabling the EU to reach its Green Deal and Biodiversity 2030 targets.
Identified as one of the Mission ""enablers"", the EU will build on “a digital knowledge system” to include a Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) allowing simulation of ‘what if’ scenarios, advancing ocean knowledge, informing evidence-based policy and offering a range of societal applications.
To effectively replicate the ocean’s ecology, the DTO requires sustained flows of data on biodiversity and associated pressures.
Despite myriad actors collecting biodiversity data, and the development of novel cost-effective monitoring technologies, much of these data are inaccessible or unusable for a variety of reasons, hampering the development of the DTO biological component and limiting its efficacy.
DTO-BioFlow will activate access to (""sleeping"") marine biodiversity data and enable the sustainable integration of existing and new Artificial Intelligence processed and automated data flows from various sources to EMODnet and into the EDITO infrastructure serving the EU DTO.
Combining sustained data flows, models and new algorithms, DTO-BioFlow will develop and integrate the biological component of the DTO, including new digital tools and services.
Policy-relevant use cases, will demonstrate the benefit for marine ecosystems of continuous data streams flowing through EMODnet and usable by the EU DTO infrastructures and ultimate end-users.
Mobilising the marine biodiversity community towards increasing the availability of biodiversity monitoring data into 2030, DTO-BioFlow and its outputs will support the Mission’s actions to protect and restore biodiversity.
All Grantees
Seascape Belgium; Aarhus Universitet; Stichting Naturalis Biodiversity Center; Vsb - Technical University of Ostrava; E-Science European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research; Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno; European Molecular Biology Laboratory; Eigen Vermogen Van Het Instituut Voor Natuur- En Bosonderzoek; United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization; Sintef Ocean As; Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Trust-It Services Srl; The University Court of the University of St Andrews; Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Gmbh; Sintef As; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; European Marine Biological Resource Centre European Research Infrastructure Consortium; International Council for the Exploration of the Sea; Commpla Srl; Danmarks Tekniske Universitet; Universite Du Littoral; Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigacao Marinha E Ambiental; Mariene Informatie Service Maris Bv; Fondazione Coispa Ets; Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom; Helmholtz-Zentrum Fur Ozeanforschung Kiel (Geomar); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS; Vlaams Instituut Voor de Zee; Mercator Ocean; Goeteborgs Universitet; Csc-Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy; Sorbonne Universite
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