Work Packages

WP1 Project Management

Lead: Trinity College Dublin

O1.1: To monitor project progress and ensure compliance with legal, contractual, reporting and financial requirements, including the submission of timely high-quality deliverables; O1.2: To establish and maintain good communication with the EC, within the consortium, and with the high-level Advisory Board (AB); O1.3: To develop and implement an effective risk management strategy; O1.4: To develop and monitor plans for data management and the ethical conduct of research.

WP2 Developing socio-ecological models

Lead: Trinity College Dublin

O2.1: Conduct mechanistic ecological simulation for the ocean regions considered in the use cases; O2.2: Development of data-centric novel casual socio-ecological (quantitative and qualitative) models and tools for marine coastal ecosystems; O2.2: Development of parallel AI based tools for marine coastal ecosystems; O2.3: Develop simple assessment methods for comparison.

WP3 Stakeholder and multi-actor engagement

Lead:  Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Objectives: O3.1: Develop methodologies for stakeholder multi-actor engagement for decision support, policy management and scenario analysis; O3.2: Conduct 3 workshops (in M7, M18, M30) for each of the use cases; O3.3: Develop participatory stakeholder engagement-based SE models with dynamic feedback.

O4.1: Assimilating interoperable open reliable spatio-temporal socio-economic-marine ecological data; O4.2: Integration of the developed socio-ecological models to DTOs for emulating complex SE systems

O5.1: Develop socio-ecological performance indicators for policy assessment; O5.2: Develop decision support tool for scenario analysis to assess environmental, policy, and management impact on coastal and marine ecosystems

O6.1: To amplify the influence of ECOTWIN's findings by strategically leveraging communication, dissemination, and exploitation efforts across the project’s lifetime. The emphasis is on fostering solid community engagements, ensuring optimal usage of the project's outputs, and directly or indirectly influencing policy decisions for improved marine and freshwater ecosystems.