Date
18/04/2016
EuroGOOS and European Marine Board have taken a leadership role to engage with experts and wide community on making the EOOS a reality. To this end, a brainstorming expert workshop took place in May 2015 with the objectives to deliver a definition of EOOS, a long-term vision, and short-term implementation steps. As recommended by the workshop, EOOS steering group has been convened and will meet for the first time on 18 April 2016. The meeting will primarily focus on the EOOS roadmap and stakeholder engagement and communication strategy.
EOOS is seen as a light and flexible coordinating framework to help manage and improve the existing observing effort, making it more efficient and effective at different geographical scales, and for different end-users.
Specifically, EOOS will:
- Align and integrate existing initiatives to ensure efficiency and value for money and to eliminate duplication of effort;
- Identify gaps in our observing capacity and foster initiatives to fill those gaps;
- Promote standardization of the end-to-end system from observation collection to data management and products;
- Drive capacity building and provide leadership for ocean observation;
- Promote the ocean observing services for multiple sectors including research, policy, management and industry; and
- Promote a common European voice and integration at the international level.
In this way, EOOS will bring a real added value to existing observing efforts, empowering those who are working to advance ocean observing in Europe, catalyzing new initiatives in a strategic way, targeting identified gaps and speaking with a wide range of stakeholders.
Location
EuroGOOS AISBL, Brussels, Belgium
