Social-ecological ocean management applications with Digital Ocean Twins

General Information

SEADOTs has the objective of advancing holistic, just and sustainable ocean management by bringing a predictive component for social-ecological aspects into comprehensive Digital Ocean Twins (DOTs). These DOTs will combine digital twins of the ocean (DTO) with human activities in the ocean and combine socio-ecological and socio-economic data with ocean data, ecosystem data, and a variety of models. By creating and demonstrating applications in the Norwegian North Sea, the Southern North Sea and the Baltic Sea that address current challenges and developments and can simulate the intricate interactions between human activities and marine ecosystems, SEADOTs aims to facilitate and inform political decision making, marine spatial planning and adaptive management. SEADOTs ambition is to help safeguard ocean ecosystems, promote sustainable resource use, and enhance social and economic well-being. The project will leverage developments from ongoing Mission and Green Deal projects where partners are involved in, including the European Digital Twin projects Iliad and EDITO, OLAMUR and CLIMAREST and demonstrate Ocean Management Applications with DOTs on the EU Digital Twin Ocean (DTO) infrastructure as well as distributed platforms for socio-ecological, socio-economic and political endpoints. For that purpose will SEADOTs work with data acquisition and beyond the state of the art and the objective to provide spatially-explicit social-ecological data and data interoperability with geospatial ocean data also after the project period in suitable repositories, through stakeholder capacity building and through collaboration with the co-funded projects of this call. The SEADOTs consortium is built across scientific and technical excellence and is accompanied by an Advisory Board that spans marine spatial planning, political aspects, gaming and social science as well as Ocean Best Practices.
Hereon is involved in the development of Use Case 1: “Southern North Sea: Socioeconomics and environmental effects from coexisting industries - offshore wind, and lower-trophic aquaculture”. HEREON leads Work Package 4, which focuses on the design and validation of DEMONSTRATORS. This involves creating practical examples and what-if-scenarios that showcase the integration of models and DTOs in real-world scenarios. HEREON-KSD is involved in advancing scientific models, validation, DTO technologies and conducting impact assessments. The aim is to understand both the socioeconomic impacts and the environmental consequences of coexisting industries, considering factors such as environmental impacts and economic benefits. HEREON contributes s to the sustainable development of marine resources, supporting both ecological balance and economic growth.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01-08
Project Type	Research and Innovation Action (RIA)
Contract Number	Grant Agreement 101156488
Co-ordinator	SINTEF OCEAN AS (NO)

Funding for the Project (€)	Funding for Hereon (€)
3,299,870	482,501

Contact Person at Hereon

Dr. Joanna Staneva, Institute of Coastal Systems - Analysis and Modeling, Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation, KSD, Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1804 E-mail contact

Participants

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (DE), Haskoli Islands (IS), International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (DK), Netcompany-Intrasoft SA (LU), Open Geospatial Consortium Europe (BE), Privredno Drustvo Zentrix Lab Drustvo Sa Ogranicenom Odgovornoscu Pancevo (RS), SINTEF OCEAN AS (NO), Stockholms Universitet (SE)

Last Update: 24. September 2024