A preparatory workshop for the MARINE MONITORING SERVICE will take place in Brussels on January 25th in the frame of the next GMES USER FORUM.

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION : JANUARY 18th

 

The very first Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission took place in Brussels on 5/6 December. The MyOcean project was honoured to have been selected by the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation to be part of this outstanding event.

On November 24th and 25th 2011, the 2nd national GMES User Symposium will continue the GMES-dialogue in Germany,. The Federal Government of Germany duly follows the recommendations issued from the 1st national GMES User Forum, which took place last year in Berlin.
 

The German MyOcean partner BSH (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie) organizes the 1st symposium  "The Future of Operational Oceanography" from 25th to 27th October 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.

The IBI area was at the forefront of an event organized on Friday 14th October 2011 by Puertos del Estado, the Spanish national Port authorities and MyOcean partner, in Santiago de Compostela.

"Stimulating the creation of partnerships for a sustainable development of GMES downstream services", the next DORIS_net brokerage event in Brussels on November 8/9th.

In anticipation of the GMES Marine Service, MyOcean is working towards deploying a strong and reliable capacity for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting in Europe. The MyOcean objective to offer a sole, homogeneous and interoperable system for the provision of ocean observation and forecast is making good progress through regular improvement phases.

The latest improvement phase took place on July 5th 2011 at 8 am (UTC).
 

The conference "GMES and Climate Change" organised by the European Commission will take place at the Finnish Meteorological Institute of Helsinki on 16 and 17 June. This conference is the opportunity to discuss the extent of existing information for climate change monitoring and debate on the present and future users needs. MyOcean - the GMES Marine Service- will be present to support the definition of the GMES Climate Service.

In the mid-term of the current 7th Research Framework Programme, the European Commission, supported by the Hungarian EU Presidency, organised an international Conference on Space Research to provide the opportunity for Community financed research consortia to present their achievements from first years of space research under FP7.

Pierre Bahurel, project coordinator presented the MyOcean project achievements.
 

As part of its user-driven approach, MyOcean has organised its first User Workshop that aims to connect MyOcean Users and MyOcean experts, to collect users’ feedback and next requirements and also to present the long term MyOcean User strategy.

The event took place in Stockholm on April 7th and 8th 2011.