Digital Ocean Forum 2024
The Digital Ocean Forum 2024 is a high-level event, taking place under the auspice of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU, on 13 June 2024 at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels.
The European Digital Twin of the Ocean will unlock the door to knowledge and its translation into actions: it is a digital co-creation place at the crossroad of different disciplines. Its purpose is to provide Ocean communities, citizens, coastal actors, scientists, and policymakers worldwide, with actionable knowledge and to support them in their daily decisions and planning, to ensure a healthy and sustainable Ocean.
The Digital Ocean Forum 2024 was the occasion to unveil the prototype of the EU DTO and to showcase what the EU DTO, as a Commission public service, can do for the sustainable development of our blue economies and the management of our ocean resources, as well as how it contributes to the implementation of the Green Deal and the UN Decade of Science for Sustainable Development. It brought together experts, stakeholders, policymakers and interested citizens in the co-design and co-creation of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean.
Blue-Cloud 2026 at the event
Blue-Cloud2026 was selected to contribute to the European Digital Twin of the Ocean, and participated on the 12th of June to the Digital Ocean Forum Scientific & Technical Workshop, and on the 13th of June to the main event as an example of platform releasing applications of interest for integration potential with EDITO. Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, senior project manager at Trust-IT Services & Blue-Cloud 2026 project coordinator, gave a live demo during the High-Level Event , of how Blue-Cloud Zoo and Phytoplankton EOV demonstrator was used by a team of researchers during the Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2022 to develop an application for the real time assessment of marine megafauna in Marine Protected Areas in the North Atlantic.
The demo was titled "Unravelling marine food webs towards marine biodiversity conservation, an EDITOBlue Cloud cooperation" and a video was realised , available below.
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