{"id":429111,"date":"2025-06-09T16:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/09\/ue-gemello-digitale-oceani\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:52:08","slug":"eu-unveiles-first-version-of-digital-twin-ocean-what-will-virtual-twin-ocean-be-used-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/09\/eu-unveiles-first-version-of-digital-twin-ocean-what-will-virtual-twin-ocean-be-used-for\/","title":{"rendered":"EU unveiles first version of Digital Twin Ocean. What will virtual twin ocean be used for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Three years ago, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> announced in Brest the goal of building a digital twin of the oceans. Today (9 June), the President of the European Commission presented a first demo version<\/strong> at the United Nations Conference on Oceans in Nice. “An extraordinary tool that helps us to better understand the ocean, from pollution to navigation, from risks to our coasts to biodiversity,” the EU leader exulted. It is an open-source\u00a0tool, available to anyone.<\/p>\n

Thousands of sensors scattered across the world’s waters, combined with satellite data provided by the Copernicus Earth Observation Service, will feed into this\u00a0coherent, high-resolution, multidimensional, and near-real-time<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0virtual replication of the ocean. The Digital Twin Ocean<\/a> (DTO) will combine these ocean observations with innovative artificial intelligence techniques, enabling a deeper understanding of ongoing processes and the potential to hypothesise future scenarios through advanced machine learning methods.\u00a0In presenting the EU Pact for the Oceans a few days ago, the European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans,\u00a0Costas Kadis<\/strong>,\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0a new strategy for ocean research and innovation that will be based precisely on the use of DTO.<\/span>\u00a0And which, at the same time, will fuel further developments.<\/p>\n

In essence, a digital twin is a virtual representation of an object or system designed to reflect the source object accurately. It covers its life cycle, is updated with real-time data, and uses simulation, machine learning, and reasoning to help make informed decisions\u2014a revolutionary tool for policymakers and beyond. Citizens, companies, non-governmental organisations, and all users will be able to interactively access comprehensive information to assess the impact of potential interventions under different climate scenarios<\/strong>\u00a0on the health of biodiversity, primary production, and conditions for the development of marine species.<\/p>\n

The DTO was developed through two EU-funded projects, EDITO-Infra and EDITO Model Lab, coordinated by Mercator Ocean International, an organisation based in Toulouse, France.\u00a0Almost a year ago<\/a>, on 13 July 2024,\u00a0the EU had already given a first taste\u00a0when the then Commissioner for Innovation and Research, Iliana Ivanova, presented the DTO’s pre-operational platform at the Digital Ocean Forum.<\/span>\u00a0The Bulgarian Commissioner had called it a “game-changer in ocean management<\/strong>.” For example, this includes monitoring the impact of marine litter, seabed and coastal erosion, and the potential of offshore wind energy. Just to name a few.<\/p>\n

Over the past two decades, digital twins have gained traction and are now widely utilised in various fields. For energy production systems<\/strong>\u2014e.g. jet engines, turbines, drilling rigs\u2014both during design and maintenance. They are used by several car manufacturers to improve vehicle performance and increase production efficiency. Moreover, digital twins can display 3D and 4D spatial data in real-time and incorporate augmented reality systems, which are particularly useful for civil engineers and those involved in urban planning activities. Since 31 March, there has even been Replica Italia, the ‘first digital twin of the Italian population’, the Peninsula’s digital twin that reproduces its entire demographic, social and behavioural structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The presentation at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice. It will be powered by thousands of underwater sensors and satellite data, combined through advanced machine learning methods. Von der Leyen: “An extraordinary tool that helps us better understand the ocean”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":429076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[31445,31444,31418],"class_list":["post-429111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","tag-gemello-digital-and","tag-digital-twin-of-the-ocean-en","tag-pact-on-the-oceans-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429146,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429111\/revisions\/429146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}