The list below consists of mainly external events, relevant for EU4OceanObs and involving the participation of the EU action coordinators of the GEO Blue Planet Initiative and/or G7 Future of the Seas & Oceans Initiative.

All Atlantic Data 2030 – African Data Infrastructures & Stakeholder Forum

24 May 2022

South African Webinar & Virtual Workshop

24 May 2022: WEBINAR:  14:00 – 16:30 (South African Summer Time)

25 May 2022 VIRTUAL WORKSHOP:  14:00 – 16:00 (South African Summer Time)

Under the umbrella of the All-Atlantic Cooperation for Ocean Research and Innovation (AANChOR‑CSA) Project, the Data Infrastructures and Stakeholder’s Forum forms part of the implementation of the Joint Pilot Action for AANChOR’s Work Package 5 (Common Standards for Data and Information Sharing).  This is a side-event of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance 2022 Forum, co-hosted by the United States and Brazil, in collaboration with the European Commission, over two events between May and July 2022.

The events serves to

  • To showcase marine data infrastructures and operators in Africa to ensure their participation and inclusion in the All‑Atlantic Ocean Data Space (AAODS).
  • To support the development of a natural-, social- scientific and humanistic transatlantic ocean data space with historical, current and future ocean data.
  • To define a minimum set of ocean metadata standards and formats to be used by local, regional and national initiatives in the Atlantic basin

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