With a 2030 target, the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters” aims to protect and restore the health of our ocean and waters through research and innovation, citizen engagement and blue investments. The Mission’s new approach will address the ocean and waters as one and play a key role in achieving climate neutrality and restoring nature.
Cross-cutting enabling actions will support this objective, in particular broad public mobilisation and engagement and a digital ocean and water knowledge system, known as Digital Twin Ocean.
The Mission supports regional engagement and cooperation through area-based “lighthouses” in major sea/river basins: Atlantic-Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, Baltic-North Sea, and Danube-Black Sea. Mission lighthouses are sites to pilot, demonstrate, develop and deploy the Mission activities across EU seas and river basins.
Our main objective is to bring together the existing state-of-the-art practices in MU-LTA related key sectors, to develop and demonstrate a sustainable solution for commercial MU-LTA in both low and high salinity, high eutrophic and high energetic offshore waters. The relevant data, information, products and standards for establishing, operating and evaluating such a solution will be monitored, simulated, stored and customized as an “OLAMUR digital MU-LTA farm service”. This will provide a solid basis for MU-LTA upscaling in the next phase of the Ocean Mission (2025 -2026).
Emily Cowan Leads WP7 on Governance:
Co-create holistic multi-level governance solutions for innovations in offshore seaweed and shellfish farming within windmill farms by comparatively assessing the governance structures in the 3 pilot sites, at all relevant levels from local to global, and involving all relevant stakeholders from science, policy, industry and society.
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