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Blue-Cloud Second Federation and Digital Twins of the Ocean Interoperability Joint Workshops
Blue-Cloud Event
16 June 2025 10:00–18:00
Brest, France
Services and solutions for thematic and local digital twins of the ocean
Iliad and Blue Cloud 2026 Joint Workshop @ OCEAN 2025
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.
Agenda
Main Session
| Time | Session title |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration and welcome coffee |
09.30 - 11:00 |
Opening Session (Room 3-4) |
| 09:30 - 09.35 |
Welcome to Brest René Garello, Professor Emeritus IMT Atlantique |
| 09:35 - 09.40 |
Introduction to the Workshop and the Session Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Blue-Cloud Project Coordinator, Trust-IT Services Bente Bye, Iliad |
| 09:40 - 09.50 |
Keynote: Digital Twins and the European Ocean Pact. What's next? Zoi Konstantinou, DG Mare |
| 9:50 - 10:00 |
Policy Context: Setting the scene Garabet Kazanjian, Assistant Professor at American University of Armenia |
| 10:00 - 10:10 |
Summary from the First Federation and Digital Twins of the Ocean Interoperability Workshop, 2024 Dick Schaap, Blue-Cloud Technical Coordinator, MARIS Arne J. Berre, SINTEF Digital |
| 10:10 - 10:20 |
EDITO: Meet the backbone infrastructure of the European Digital Twin Ocean Cyrielle Delvenne, VLIZ |
| 10:20 - 10:30 |
Towards a Marine EOSC thematic Node in support of EDITO Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Blue-Cloud Project Coordinator, Trust-IT Services |
| 10:30 - 10:40 |
Iliad Digital twins of the ocean and Interoperability Arne J. Berre, SINTEF Digital |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Q&A Session |
11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Display |
Morning Parallel Sessions
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Tech Session 1: DTO Technologies and Interoperability (Room 3-4) | Demo Session 1: Towards a Marine thematic EOSC in support of EDITO (Room 5) |
| 10 minutes presentations |
Marco Amaro Oliveira, INSEC TEC
Marco Amaro Oliveira, INSEC TEC
Fernando Cassola, INSEC TEC
A graph theory approach for Digital Twin Ocean Biswajit Basu, EcoTwin
Bastien Fouque, SHOM
Digital Atlas of Fisheries for Ghanaian Fishermen Peter Teye Busumprah, OceanLoveNews
Ireland’s Digital Transformation: Building a Digital Twin of the Ocean Anthonin Lizé, ORE Data Services |
Marine Environmental Indicators Virtual Lab to assess the environmental status of marine areas Francesco Palermo,CMCC
Antonios Parasyris, FORTH
Lise Schroeder, Aarlborg University
iMAGINE - BlueCloud image AI/ML service Dick Schaap, Blue-Cloud Technical Coordinator, MARIS
Developing regional digital twins for marine restoration in the CLIMAREST project Daniel Schroeder, SINTEF
Dick Schaap, Blue-Cloud Technical Coordinator, MARIS
Integration of coastal ocean observations along Europe João Vitorino, Instituto Hidrografico (remote) |
| Q&A Session | ||
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break | |
Afternoon Parallel Sessions
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Tech Session 2: Socio-Economic and Biodiversity data and models for the EU DTO - EDITO (Room 3-4) | Demo Session 2: Short Demos (Room 5) |
| 10 minutes presentations |
EcoTwin - Advancing Interoperable Digital Twins for Marine Socio-Ecological Systems Simon Keeble, Bluelobster
SEADOTs – Social-ecological assessments and ocean management with Digital Ocean Twins Charalampos Ipektsidis, Netcompany-Intrasoft
SEADITO - Providing Social-Ecological data and models to the EU Digital Twin Ocean Daniel Schroeder, SINTEF
DTO-BioFlow and BioDT - Providing Biodiversity data and models to the EU Digital Twin Ocean and EOSC Laura Slaughter, SINTEF
Model Monitoring in the Digital Twin of the Oslofjord Laura Slaughter, SINTEF
Towards a Digital Twin for Oil Spill Incidents in the Thracian Sea Georgios Sylaios, Democritus University of Thrace |
Optical Microplastic Sensor based on Artificial Intelligence Models Gonzalo García, Leitat Elena Torralba Calleja, Leitat
Deriving surface currents, using a multi-source approach and variational inverse method. Abel Dechenne, University of Liege (remote)
Iliad DTO Pilot for the Western Black Sea Basin, in Support of the Marine Fisheries Marius Budileanu, University of Bucharest
Dor Edelist, The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies
Coastal Crete: The Ship routing/Harbor Safety Digital Twin of the Ocean Antonios Parasyris, FORTH |
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Q&A Sessions Workshop discussions - Answer from project presenters: What are the future synergies and next steps for the projects with respect to interoperability with each other and the EU DTO and EDITO ? Arne J. Berre, SINTEF Digital & Bente Bye, Co-Founder of Space4CC |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break and Posters Display | |
Panel Conclusion & Next Steps
16:30 - 18:00 |
Policy Panel Conclusion, Discussion, and Next Steps (Room 3-4) |
| 16:30 - 17:45 |
Panel Discussion Moderator: Garabet Kazanjian, Assistant Professor at American University of Armenia
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| 17:45 - 18:00 | Conclusions – Summaries from Tech, Demos, and Panels |
| 19:00 | Welcome Reception at Oceanopolis |
Contribute to the programme: submit your abstract
Blue-Cloud 2026 and Iliad cordially invite you 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.
Abstract submission is now closed.