Date: 14 February 2018 from 10:00 till 16:00

Location: Brussels, DG MARE, Rue Joseph II 99

Objective of the meeting: to strengthen current collaboration and leverage future mutual areas of benefit between EMODnet and CMEMS

Expected Outcome: to further develope the partnership roadmap between EMODNet and CMEMS at the policy, coordination and operational levels

• The first part of the meeting (AM) will be devoted to presentations and updates on higher level coordination aspects (DG GROW, DG MARE, Marcator Ocean, EMODnet Secretariat).
• The second part of the meeting (PM) aims at developing more concrete activities and areas for cooperation.

These discussions will feed and further shape the partnership roadmap with principle outline of basis for coordination as well as specific joint activities planned in 2018 and 2019.

Draft Agenda

From 10:00 till 12:30 - High Level Coordination Meeting

• Updates from DG GROW and Mercator Ocean on CMEMS phase 2 (until 2020):

  • Priorities and areas of collaboration under the current EMFF (planned initiatives, system updates and changes in the catalogues)

• Updates from DG MARE and EMODnet Secretariat on EMODnet phase 3 (until 2020):

  • Priorities and areas of collaboration under the current EMFF (key activities, EMFF, Marine Knowledge User Group, Checkpoints, EOOS Conference, …)

• Long-term strategy post 2020: informal exchange of views on possible areas of convergence and on the next EMFF.

  • DG GROW

  • DG MARE

• AOB

From 13:30 till 16:00 – operational and technical collaboration

• Joint activities: Jerico Summer School (summer 2018), Joint Hackathon / Open Data Competition (spring 2019)

• INSTAC and EMODnet data issues

  • INSTAC Data Portal vs EMODnet Physics

  • INSTAC Data ingestion portal vs EMODnet data ingestion portal

  • EMODnet Chemistry Data

• EMODnet Physics: complementarities and synergies

• Single Sign-On CMEMS-EMODnet (User tracking and user knowledge)

• Insights from stress tests on Copernicus and EMODnet

• Developing joint products

• Compatibility and interoperability with other international initiatives

• Memorandum of Understanding to be updated

• AOB
• Recap actions and closing