EDITO Exhibition at European Ocean Days
2 – 6 March 2026 (Brussels, Belgium)
Discover the EDITO platform in an interactive exhibition that will run for the whole week: “The European Digital Twin Ocean: a pillar to Restore our Ocean and Waters.”
The ocean is facing several pressures like biodiversity loss, pollution, rapid warming, and unsustainable human activities. Scientific knowledge is needed more than ever to ensure correct implementation of EU ocean policies that strive for the protection and restoration of national and international marine ecosystems and coastal communities. The European Digital Twin Ocean is a consistent, high-resolution, multi-dimensional and near real-time virtual representation of the ocean that aims to make ocean data accessible and actionable to all, empowering researchers, decision-makers, innovators and citizens to grow our shared knowledge about the ocean and act for its future. .
The EDITO platform – the core, public infrastructure of the European Digital Twin Ocean – offers cutting-edge tools for developing digital twins, making science-based decisions, and ensuring maximum impact for research and innovation actions across the key objectives of the EU Mission Ocean & Waters: protect biodiversity, stop marine pollution, and support a sustainable blue economy. The platform integrates a wide range of data sources including observations from thousands of sensors and satellites, artificial intelligence, and advanced modelling to make ocean data readily available to all. Building on existing European assets, EDITO upgrades, combines and integrates data and services from EMODnet and the Copernicus Marine Service into a single digital framework. By building on these established European infrastructures, EDITO harmonizes high-resolution ocean observation data, forecasts, and analysis.
A powerful asset to support the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and 2030 Agenda, the European Digital Twin Ocean provides the ability to explore actions such as reducing CO₂ emissions or establishing marine protected areas and the impact of these decisions on marine ecosystems, climate, and ocean economy sectors.
