Between 5-19 October 2022, the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) are organizing a virtual global meeting with a number of workshops. Goals include guiding the development of best practices and operating practices, promoting their documentation, and sharing them widely using the Ocean Best Practices System. The OBPS repository is hosted by the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of UNESCO.

The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), Marine Technology Society (MTS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and industry partners launched a new Ocean Decade action - a forum for compact and meaningful dialogue with new and established companies, academia, and government. Through a successful and thriving mix of the public and private technologies and players, Dialogues with Industry will aim to dismantle barriers and highlight opportunities towards achieving a mature, vibrant ocean observing enterprise.

​​​This two-day free online workshop on 13-14 September 2022 provides introduction, demonstrations, and exercises in producing ICES Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) assessment outputs and working within the GitHub environment. The workshop is mainly aimed at people working with stock assessment models who need guidance to run the models through TAF.

The All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance 2022 Forum is taking place 30-31 May 2022 in Brasilia, Brazil, and online, co-hosted by the United States and Brazil, in collaboration with the European Commission. over two events between May and July 2022.

Outcomes from this Scientific Event will be highlighted at the Ministerial Event in Washington, D.C. the week of 12-14 July 2022 (streamed live), which will also feature Ministerial interventions and the signing of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research & Innovation Alliance Declaration. Registrations will open soon!

Outcomes from the Scientific Event that took place in May/June 2022 will be highlighted at the Ministerial Event in Washington, D.C. the week of July 12-14 2022 (streamed live), which will also feature Ministerial interventions and the signing of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research & Innovation Alliance Declaration.

The EMODnet community will be actively participating in the UN Ocean Conference, taking place from 27 June to 1 July 2022.

EMODnet is co-organizing an official side event on 29 June 18:00-20:00 GMT+1 on marine data interoperability in collaboration with Fugro, Mercator Ocean International, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), IOC-UNESCO, International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the UN Ocean Decade Data Coordination Group. Find more information about this side event and how to register on the side-event webpage. 

EMODnet is also involved in a number of other activities from Atlantic research to ocean literacy.

Stay tuned and keep an eye on the EMODnet website for more information on our presence at the UN Ocean Conference 2022.

The Ocean Observing Co-Design Programme will host an online Ocean Decade Co-Design Workshop on 7-9 June 2022 to kick-start the development of transformative co-design processes and to shape plans for advancing co-design projects. Teams will work on the development of co-design ‘exemplar’ projects, for example around providing the ocean information needed to national governments for carbon budgets, users of marine heatwave information, and improving the forecasting of hurricanes and tropical storms.

Blue-Cloud is taking part in the EU Green Week with a Partner Event on 1 June 2022 at 15:00 CEST. Blue-Cloud will present three practical use cases from the international marine research community that were awarded at the "Decode the Ocean" Hackathon in February 2022. These applications are currently exploiting the Blue-Cloud platform to expand and improve digital solutions for a range of crucial challenges for a sustainable blue economy. EMODnet is a core marine data infrastructure contributing its technical expertise to Blue-Cloud and its data and data product services to digital applications for the blue economy, EU Green Deal and more.

The All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance 2022 Forum will be co-hosted by the United States and Brazil, in collaboration with the European Commission, over two events between May and July 2022. From 31 May - 2 June, Brasilia will host the Scientific Event in an online form. This event will focus on scientific meetings and side events amongst the All-Atlantic community and will be an opportunity for researchers, policy makers, funders, industry, academia, and youth to share the important work they have been doing in the Atlantic, collaborate to co-create innovative solutions to today’s challenges, and work towards more cooperative and sustainable research throughout the Atlantic. Find out how to be engaged in the Scientific Event and register today!

EMODnet is co-organising a stakeholder workshop on 19 May 2022 titled “Ocean Observation, Marine Data and Services for the EU Green Deal” in collaboration with the H2020 Blue-Cloud and EuroSea projects and the wider research community.

This year, EMD2022 will also host the first European Ocean Literacy Summit on 20 May, bringing together partners and wider practitioners from the marine and maritime community to showcase and celebrate achievements of the first two years of the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy with three key communities.

On 12 May 2022, EU marine data services EMODnet and Copernicus Marine Service are organising a joint webinar to discuss the evolution of these key marine data services in the context of an all Atlantic and global ocean data space. The webinar is supported by the European Commission and in collaboration with the AANCHOR All-Atlantic Cooperation for Ocean Research and Innovation. The event is open and inclusive, intended for all interested stakeholders across the Atlantic Ocean Basin and beyond. A full programme will be available in April 2022.

The #OceanChallenge4Africa online hackathon aims to tackle ocean challenges in the coastal and marine regions of Africa and to pool African energies to grasp opportunities offered by the ocean. It is organized by Mercator Ocean International, IOC Africa and Garage48; and supported by the EU’s Copernicus Marine Service and Segal Family Foundation. It is further held in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme GEMS Ocean, GEO Blue Planet and the African Group on Earth Observations (AfriGEO). The deadline for idea submission and team formation is 22 March 2022.

The European Ocean Observing System (EOOS) Technology Forum will have a workshop on 22-24 March 2022 as a virtual event. The EOOS Technology forum holds a workshop every two years and it is designed to help create and strengthen links between technology users, developers and providers in ocean observing across the public and private sectors in Europe. This second workshop will use the Ocean Decade as a framework to explore the technological advances through the lens of two main societal requirements:

• “A clean ocean where sources of pollution are identified and removed”
• “A healthy and resilient ocean where marine ecosystems are mapped and protected”

The EMODnet Secretariat and wider experts will be speaking on panels throughout the event.

Ocean-based industries and conservation organisations are working towards 2030 targets to reduce harmful practices and restore ocean health. The summit will assess whether the targets are ambitious enough, and what policymakers, industry, and investors should do to achieve them.

The Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022 ("Come Together and Connect") will focus on the importance of strong pilina for the ocean science community. Pilina means connection, relationship, and association and is an important value in Hawaiian culture that encourages inclusivity and collaborations to achieve results that cannot be accomplished with one person alone. EMODnet will be actively contributing to a number of sessions including the scientific session: "OD11 The uptake of data by citizen scientists, aggregators and end-users: successes, challenges and gaps in the dataflow".

Following the Copernicus Horizon 2035 symposium, the kick-off phase 2 event of the Copernicus Marine Service will be an opportunity to officially mark the continuation of the service. This event will gather Copernicus Marine communities such as partners and downstream users and showcase the road map for the upcoming seven years. EMODnet will be represented at the event by the many EMODnet experts engaged in operational in situ data flow and data product development. The EMODnet Secretariat will also be speaking at the open session on 17 February 2022 in the afternoon.

The One Planet Summit for the Ocean is organised in the context of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with the support of the United Nations. The full programme includes diverse topics related to the ocean and society, and a meeting of the Heads of State and Government, leaders of multilateral institutions, business leaders and civil society policymakers.

The 6th edition of the EU Datathon, the annual EU open data competition, includes four challenges. 

The finals will take place on 20 October 2022.