Roadmap for cooperation with COPERNICUS and industries
Creators: name: Durand, Dominique
name: Mangin, Antoine
Publisher: name: JERICO S3
Year: 2024

description: JERICO have used about ten years for maturing from a network of institutional or nation research facilities, dedicated mostly to the observation of the physical ocean, into a pan-European research infrastructure, delivering continuous, valuable data, datasets and information about key coastal processes of high relevance to science and society, and developing a range of services for the use of many stakeholders and users in Europe. In this report we are focussing on two types of key stakeholders: (1) Copernicus Marine Service and European space agencies (ESA and EUMetSat), and (2) coastal industries. An analysis of the state of partnerships with JERICO, including success stories has been conducted. Barriers towards improved partnership, and opportunities provided by the European and global context have been identified and will be further exploited beyond the end of the project and will be used as drivers for the design of specific JERICO services. The Copernicus Marine Service and space agencies have shown a growing need for in-situ observations to develop their own products and services. The analysis conducted in JERICO-S3 and presented in this report shows that the long-term objectives, which have driven the development of JERICO since 2011, were the right ones and that the societal and subsequent scientific challenges upon us will greatly benefit the strategy implemented in JERICO. There is strong expectation from the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) on JERICO products and services, especially with regards to the implementation of the CMEMS´s coastal strategy, but also and not least related to the emergence of the Digital Twins of the Ocean (DTO). Specific limitations towards a more efficient partnership have been identified and will be jointly tackled beyond the end of the JERICO-S3 project. Specific services that JERICO could offer to CMEMS and to ESA have been defined, as well as their implementation modalities. Coastal industries encompass many different types of actors, including small and large manufacturers, small and large users of the ocean space, exploiting its physical and/or biological resources, and providers of technical services to those exploiting the coastal ocean. It is recognised that more and better partnerships between a research infrastructure such as JERICO and SMEs developing marine technology is required for addressing the policy expectations encompassed into the European Green Deal and its subsequent components, e.g., energy transition, farm2fork strategy, sustainable blue economy, environmental protection, DTO. A new partnership framework is suggested for increasing the interest and feasibility of manufacturers to work closely with research infrastructure for fast-tracking high-impact innovation, addressing greening of activities, the digital ocean and European technological leadership. Increased partnership is also needed with the industry exploiting the coastal ocean, and its supporting providers. The global Ocean Enterprise initiative may become a powerful mechanism in this regard, and establishing a European hub is considered as an appropriate way forward. This will be investigated further, beyond the end of tJERICO-S3. The fact that more and more industries see the benefit of sharing their own data for creating value and efficiency in bringing solutions to current challenges is seen as a promising context that JERICO intends to exploit as part of its business model.