EuroGOOS Logo
FOCCUS
FOCCUS

Funded by

European Union Horizon 2020 Programme

Duration

January 2024 – December 2026

Coordinators

Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Gmbh (Hereon)

Overview

The main ambition of FOCCUS (January 2024-December 2026) is to improve and advance the coastal dimension of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) by enhancing existing capability, developing innovative coastal products. Designing and demonstrating the integration of Copernicus and Member State coastal services will allow a seamless and fit-for-use monitoring and forecasting of the ocean from global to regional and coastal scales. Co-production of coastal services will reinforce the quality, efficiency and exploitation of Copernicus research and specific applications will demonstrate FOCCUS’s progress beyond the state of the art for challenges such as the protection of the coastal zone, the development of a sustainable blue economy, and the building of coastal zone resilience to climate change, anthropogenic pressures and natural hazards.

Our Role

EuroGOOS will lead the inventory of MS coastal systems: an inventory of existing operational coastal models operated for MS will be developed to assess their level of maturity, applications, dependence with insitu observations and forcing fields, needs with respect to Copernicus Marine, and will be involved in the stakeholder engagement.