Regional (sea-basins) components of the EU Digital Twin Ocean

Expected Outcome:Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:Additional regional and local assets (data, models, digital twins) are made available on the DTO core infrastructure, EDITO;New digital twin applications, emphasising on regional and local conditions and addressing regional considerations, including stakeholders needs, availability of data, etc.;Enhanced digital twin regional capabilities, creating in the EU DTO core infrastructure, EDITO, the conditions to directly support policy implementation, including marine environmental policy, and Blue Economy applications which build on the regional characteristics of the sea-basin;Development of regional what-if-scenarios libraries, including confidence thresholds and related analysis, quantifying the necessary conditions to increase confidence levels, etc.;Support to monitoring and sustainable management of regional seas with new tailor-made services for regional seas. Scope:Proposals should establish regional components within the EDITO core infrastructure of the EU Digital Twin of the Ocean (EU DTO). These regional components should foster the development of local digital twins’ applications: customized digital tools designed to address the unique priorities of specific local stakeholder communities.For each sea-basin (one project per lighthouse), the objective is to:Identify, aggregate and integrate existing regional data (through EMODnet), tools, modelling and local digital twin assets that are not yet widely public (including inland waters assets that are relevant for the integrated source-to-sea approach with emphasis on land-sea connections[1]) and take the necessary action to make them available through EDITO, following all necessary interoperability and standardisation protocols. Under-represented data types (biologging, acoustic telemetry, etc.) are of particular interest;Develop regional digital twin services (tailored applications and services that address reg