The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) joins on behalf of the EU’s project Mission Atlantic the international event Ocean Business 2025 on ocean-observing technologies, held at the headquarters of the National Oceanographic Center (NOC), in the city of Southampton (United Kingdom).
PLOCAN participates in the event as partner representing the Mission Atlantic project where it mainly contributes from a technological and operational perspective through its autonomous marine vehicles fleet, in order to efficiently and sustainably increase in-situ observation capabilities of Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) of interest required to systematically develop and apply Integrated Ecological Assessments (IEA) at Atlantic Basin scale, which are the core goal of the project to improve the understanding of the Atlantic Ocean’s ecosystems and the change factors that affect marine biodiversity and ocean resources.
An unprecedented record attendance, more than six thousand visitors, and exhibitors, four hundred and fifty, representing leading companies and institutions with a scientific-technical base linked to the development, marketing and use of ocean-observing instruments and systems, has enabled to undertake a new edition of an event whose main objective is to show the latest advances in the sector through a permanent exhibition area, a wide and varied conference program, seminars, commercial presentations and technical demonstration sessions over three days.
Attending the event allows to first-hand identify and learn about the latest technological advances related to ocean-observing systems and solutions, while also identifying possible new synergies and partnership framworks for future cooperation with international companies and institutions specifically linked to the development and use of this type of technologies in the context of the Blue Economy.
The Mission Atlantic project has been granted (€11.5 M) by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No. 862428, and has a consortium of 34 partner organizations in ocean sciences, policy and industry from 14 countries on four continents (Europe, Africa, North and South America) led by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
