Euronews OCEAN Season 6, Episode 9 – Digital Twin of the Ocean: Europe’s game-changer for sustainable seas

The European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO) is an ambitious project aimed at creating a digital replica of the ocean environment. It combines data, models, and applications to provide a comprehensive virtual representation of marine systems. The goal is to make valuable marine knowledge collected across Europe accessible to all users, from researchers to policymakers and the general public.

In this episode of Ocean, we follow researchers in Italy and Belgium as they collect marine data in the field to feed into digital models (DTO-BioFlow project). We then attend the Digital Ocean Forum in Brussels, where the prototype infrastructure for the European Digital Twin Ocean is unveiled, showcasing potential applications of this innovative technology (EDITO-Infra project).

OCEAN is a Euronews magazine in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MARE). It features monthly 8-minute videos, where we discover fascinating projects and developments related to the ocean and coastal communities.

Broadcast since 2019, OCEAN features episodes on marine protected areas, small-scale fisheries, ocean energy, aquaculture, IUU fishing, sustainable fisheries and much more. Missed one? Check them out on the Euronews website! You will also find some nice extras about these topics.

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