DTO-Bio Flow
Framework :
HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01
Start date:
2023-09-01
Ref :
101112823
End date:
2027-02-28
The Horizon Europe DTO-Bioflow project aims to unlock "sleeping" biodiversity data for use in the EU Digital Twin Ocean system. The project will create a digital replica of marine biological processes by combining data streams, models, and new digital tools and services, supporting the European Mission to restore our oceans and waters by 2030 and the European Biodiversity Strategy.
Horizon Europe, Biodiversity, DTO-BioFlow
Oceans and their biodiversity are essential to life on this planet. Comprehensive data on biodiversity and related human and environmental pressures are crucial to understanding their current state and potential changes. Protecting and restoring biodiversity is one of the three objectives of the European Mission, aimed at restoring our oceans and waters by 2030, thus achieving the Green Deal and Biodiversity 2030 targets. The European Mission will rely on a "digital knowledge system" that includes a "Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO)" to simulate "what if" scenarios, increasing ocean knowledge, informing evidence-based policy, and offering a range of useful applications for society. To effectively replicate ocean ecology, the DTO requires sustained data flows on biodiversity and associated pressures. Despite the myriad of actors collecting biodiversity data and the development of new, affordable monitoring technologies, much of this data remains inaccessible or unusable for a variety of reasons, hindering the development of the biological component of DTO and limiting its effectiveness.
DTO-Bioflow will enable access to marine biodiversity data and enable the sustainable integration of new and existing data flows, processed and automated by artificial intelligence, so that they are accessible through EMODnet and the EDITO infrastructure serving EU-DTO.
By combining sustained data flows, models, and new algorithms, DTO-BioFlow will develop and integrate the biological component of DTO, including new digital tools and services. Policy-relevant use cases will demonstrate the benefits of continuous data flows through EMODnet for marine ecosystems, usable by EU-DTO infrastructures and end-users. By mobilizing the marine biodiversity community to increase the availability of biodiversity monitoring data by 2030, DTO-BioFlow and its results will support European Mission actions to protect and restore biodiversity.
