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On 27-30 June 2023, EMODnet Physics Coordinating organization, ETT, Italy was a co-organizer of the Ocean Data Week, an event held during The Ocean Race Finale in Genoa, Italy. The event brought together experts from EMODnet Secretariat, Physics, Chemistry and Data Ingestion together with wider stakeholders from the European Commission DG MARE, RTD, IOC-UNESCO, research, civil society and the private sector to exchange on topics spanning European Ocean Observation, the Marine Knowledge Value Chain, the role of Marine Data in EU Policy and Climate Change and Smart Sustainable Cities. EMODnet showcased the importance of diverse data sources highlighting the partnership with The Ocean Race, which saw EMODnet Physics making surface ocean physics data collected from sensors on the racing yacht hulls publicly available in near real-time via the EMODnet Physics dashboard, in collaboration with Copernicus Marine Service.

Wish to know more about EMODnet and its results? Download the EMODnet Annual Report 2022 to learn about the main achievements, key facts and figures, partnerships on European and global level, highlights of the European Atlas of the Seas, the EMODnet-for-business events, and much more!

From June 7th to 8th, the Biology consortium met in Crete, Greece, and online to wrap up Phase IV and kick off Phase V of the project. Those that were able to travel were extremely well received by our colleagues at HCMR in Crete.

Download the new aggregated and validated datasets from EMODnet Chemistry. They contain quality controlled information on contaminants in seawater, biota and sediment, and on the trophic level of seawater in all European basins. The regional data collections are produced according to specific procedures based on a quality control loop described in the guidelines entitled EMODnet Chemistry Regional sea eutrophication data collection and Quality Control loop. The collections are available on the EMODnet portal in the EMODnet Chemistry Data and Products section and in the Products Catalogue.

On World Ocean Day (8th June) 2023, the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) announced the launch of pre-registration and Call for Satellite Events for the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference. The three-day Conference will be hosted by the Government of Spain in Barcelona from 10-12 April 2024, and will be part of an entire Ocean Decade Week (8-12 April 2024).

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project (Seabed 2030) has lately revamped their website. Seabed 2030 is a flagship programme of the Ocean Decade which aims to drive the global initiative to contribute to Ocean mapping, in support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 14 ‘To conserve and sustainably use the Ocean, seas and marine resources for sustainable development’. The Decade Programme targets to achieve a digital map of the entire Ocean floor by 2030. Explore the newly refreshed website to learn more about Seabed 2030!

The Digital Ocean Forum 2023 "Unlocking the Potential of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean” took place on the 14-15th of June in Brussels, bringing together marine scientists and wider ocean experts including data scientists and numerical modellers, policymakers, and citizens interested in the co-design and co-creation of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (EU DTO). EMODnet’s Central Portal Coordinating institute the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) presented EMODnet’s key role in EDITO-Infra, a project in collaboration with Mercator Ocean International to upgrade existing EMODnet and Copernicus Marine Service infrastructures to create a common data lake that will serve the future EU Digital Twin Ocean (DTO). A large number of European funded projects conducting ocean related research and innovation were also invited to participate.

Join us on 26-27 September 2023 for a two-day online workshop "EMODnet for Coastal tourism". The workshop will take place over two half-days (mornings) and is designed to explore how the coastal tourism industry can benefit from EMODnet. Participants will discover the potential of EMODnet services for the coastal tourism sector and will be able to engage in cross-regional dialogue with participants from all European sea basins.

On 29-30 November 2023, the full EMODnet partnership of > 120 organisations and wider stakeholders will gather in Brussels, Belgium for the third edition of the “EMDOnet Open Conference 2023: Powering the European Marine Data Ecosystem”. Save-the-date for this interactive event. Registration opening soon!

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