Tuesday, 25 November 2025 | 14:30 - 16:00
Breakout Session 2 - EMODnet: A key regional marine data service for the global ocean digital data ecosystem
Co-Chairs: Alessandra Giorgetti, OGS, Italy, EMODnet Chemistry Coordinator; Jan-Bart Calewaert, Director Seascape Belgium
Rapporteurs: Margarita Lopez, Seascape Belgium; Paula Kellett, EMB
This session is aimed at stakeholders who would like to learn more about how EMODnet already contributes to the global ocean digital ecosystem and global policy treaties and frameworks, including the UN Ocean Decade. It is a platform to discuss how EMODnet can play a key role in the Challenge 8 delivering a Global Digital Ocean Atlas, how EMODnet could strengthen and expand its global partnerships, including with other regional data services worldwide, and how EMODnet can further contribute a fully interoperable global ocean digital data ecosystem, to 2035.