Services and solutions for thematic and local digital twins of the ocean

Second Federation and Digital Twins of the Ocean Interoperability workshops

To achieve the ambitious goals of the European Green Deal and Mission Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030, new capabilities and innovative technologies like Digital Twins of the Ocean should be promoted and widely adopted, whether at local and national levels, to solve specific challenges, or at a European and international level.  By creating virtual, data-rich representations of marine ecosystems, digital twins of the ocean can support decision-making processes that are vital for achieving the European Green Deal’s goals of sustainable resource use, biodiversity preservation, and climate resilience - and also include the additional use of socio-economic and socio-ecological data and models. This innovative technology also aligns seamlessly with the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters by enabling precise tracking and mitigation of ecological pressures on marine habitats.

The workshop will include both one demonstration oriented solution track  and one technical services track and joint sessions for both tracks.

Introducing a federated and interoperability focused  approach, where research infrastructures and technological providers make their services available to the community via agreed data management principles (GEO, FAIR, CARE, TRUST) and Open Science technology, can add that extra contribution to the sharing of knowledge, ultimately stimulating uptake of services and the development of new tools and products. The services can include one or more steps of a digital twin pipeline from observations and sensors, to data management through data spaces and data lakes including support for semantic interoperability, data discovery and access, to digital twin engine and processing services with orchestration of workflows and support for virtual research and analysis environments  with AI/Machine learning and predictions/what-if analysis  to visualisation and interaction. 

Blue-Cloud 2026 and Iliad cordially invite you to join the combined second Federation and second Digital Twins of the Ocean Interoperability (DTO-INTEROP) workshops to present your digital twins of the ocean related technologies, services and tools to the broad marine community gathered in Brest for OCEANS2025. We will welcome presentations of best practices  and demonstrations of  implementations of these services and tools into local, thematic and regional digital twins of the ocean.  In particular we welcome presentations of approaches that will combine data and models from various domains such as biodiversity and socio-ecological ecosystems with metocean data, including federation and interoperability with EMODNet, CMEMS and EDITO,  for various thematic and local digital twins of the ocean. 

See links to the first Federation and first DTO-INTEROP workshops.

Abstract submission

A maximum of 2 pages in PDF format, providing a brief description of your service, tool or product used or suited to be used in a digital twin of the ocean, including data, technologies and interoperability approaches used along with a sketch of what you will present or demonstrate at the workshop.

Abstract deadline: 1st March 2025

Type of presentations: Demonstrations, oral presentations and posters

Workshop organizing committee

Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Rita Meneses, Dick M.A Schaap (Blue-Cloud 2026), Bente Lilja Bye, Arne-Jørgen Berre, Garabet Kazanjian, Simon Keeble, Simon van Dam, Menelaos Chatziapostolidis (Iliad)

Fill in the form (link) with the name of the project and thematic area, your twin address (one or more), and any aspects of interoperability that can be demonstrated and send your abstract to: abstracts@ocean-twin.eu prefix the email subject line with OCEANS 2025 Brest.