During the past week the SEADITO partners convened in Santander, Spain, hosted by our partner IHCantabria for our third in-person project meeting – a key moment to reflect on the first year of work and align next steps toward delivering robust social-ecological models for integration into the EDITO – European Digital Twin Ocean.
DAY ONE focused on updates from all regional and pan-European case studies, with presentations highlighting completed stakeholder workshops, problem definitions, and scenario aims. Human-marine environment interactions resulted as a central theme across the cases:
🇬🇷 Saronikos Gulf
🇩🇪 Greifswald Bay
🇳🇴 Oslofjord
🇪🇸 Barcelona Area
🇫🇮 Archipelago Sea
🇱🇻 Central Baltic Sea
🌐 Pan-European Case
We also explored data harmonisation, led by Aalborg Universitet, with a framework for connecting indirectly spatial and intangible data, including socio-economic indicators and participatory insights, into DTO-compatible formats. The goal is to ensure interoperability, metadata consistency, and readiness for integration with EDITO ModelLab and the broader EU data space.
The day concluded with a presentation by @SINTEFocean on how SEADITO’s socio-ecological models align with broader EU DTO initiatives such as SeaTwins, DTO-BioFlow, SURIMI, EcoTwin, and SEA DOTS.
DAY TWO advanced our modelling tools and integration strategies. HCMR – Institute of Oceanography opened with a presentation on the challenge of integrating qualitative data from concept maps into fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs). Followed by a methodology session to ensure consistent FCM use across all case studies.
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) – Suomen ympäristökeskus (Syke) introduced Bayesian networks for evaluating environmental and economic goals, and also spoke about the SEADITO Explorer and What-If Scenarios Toolkit, featuring 3D visualisations, tale maps, extended reality tools, and interactive storytelling platforms.
Towards the end of the day Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) led a workshop on the technical implementation of social-ecological models, discussing deployment strategies and integration pathways.
Grateful to all partners for the collaboration and momentum!
