Towards a user-focused, interdisciplinary, and
responsive European ocean observing and forecasting system

EuroSea works to improve the European ocean observing and forecasting system in a global context.
We bring together key European actors of ocean observing and forecasting with users of oceanographic products and services. The EuroSea innovation demonstrators are focused on operational services, ocean health, and climate.
EuroSea is a European Union Innovation Action funded through the European Commission research funding programme Horizon 2020 under a call supporting the G7 Future of Seas and Oceans Flagship Initiative.

EuroSea Innovation Action Demonstrators

Operational services

Coastal resilience and operational services demonstrator advances the collection, quality control, interpretation and use of sea level data, and will lead to new sea level and climate services.

Ocean health

Ocean health demonstrator works with users in aquaculture, fisheries, tourism, and environmental agencies to co-create products that help identify and foresee extreme marine events (e.g. low pH or oxygen levels and marine heat waves), supporting adaptive management decisions.

Climate indicators

Ocean climate indicators demonstrator assesses the ocean role in climate through new ocean climate indicators. The economic value of the ocean carbon sink will be evaluated using a combined observing, integration, and dissemination approach.

Expected impacts

The EuroSea consortium has set out to optimize, advance and innovate many aspects of the ocean observing value chain, from technologies to products and services, from governance to capacities and best practice sharing. Communications will be an important enabler in this work. We are developing an impact monitoring protocol which will allow us assessing the impact for the whole project duration.

Sustainable blue economy
Public-private partnerships with industries: ports, coastal communities, shipping, energy, fisheries and aquaculture, and technology manufacturers
Capacity building
Growing capacities for strategic partnerships, business uptake, economical and technological development, and effective communication
G7 Future of the Oceans Initiative
Supporting coordination of ocean observing at global and regional levels, linking to governmental priorities and strengthening national capacities
Science-based policies
Harnessing the European ocean observing know how and bringing tangible results to inform environmental policies and the UN Ocean Decade
Climate and weather forecasting
Delivering ocean climate and ocean health monitoring tools and improving European weather and extreme events forecasting for science-based decisions
Biological and biogeochemical measurements
Developing global networks for ocean biology observations and data standards for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity and ecosystems
Technology readiness levels
Accelerating technology readiness levels of instruments, sensors and platforms, and integrating in situ measurements in models for effective and sustained monitoring
Data integration and sharing
Improving data integration and sharing in all European ocean basins and helping to set data collection requirements for fit-for-purpose observations
Knowledge transfer
Generating and sharing best practices in knowledge transfer for sustained ocean observing governance, capacity building, and technology development

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