Tuesday, 25 November 2025 | 14:30 - 16:00
Breakout Session 4 - EMODnet user needs and requirements
Co-Chairs: Kate Larkin, Head of the EMODnet Secretariat; Alessandro Pitito, COGEA-Bip Group, EMODnet Human Activities Coordinator
Rapporteurs: Nathalie Tonné and Merel De Cock, EMODnet Secretariat; Ana Rodriguez, EMB
This session will provide an overview of the multiple mechanisms and channels for collecting EMODnet user needs and requirements, from progress monitoring to workshops and from the online helpdesk and survey to the sea-basin checkpoints. The session will a) look to the future to see how a pan-EMODnet user requirements mechanism could be strengthened and b) collect concrete recommendations from the wide EMODnet user community on priorities for service evolution, including for the coast and land-sea interface, the deep sea and the polar regions.