Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital Twins for Sustainable Ocean Futures
Digital twin technology holds significant promise in developing solutions to mitigate the damage caused by climate change and facilitating the transition to greener alternatives. The European Commission is leveraging this technology to create a digital twin of the ocean (DTO), a highly accurate digital model aimed at facilitating studies, improving decision-making, and providing essential ocean data. The ERC-funded TwinPolitics project seeks to address concerns surrounding the socio-technical aspects of DTOs and their use in national and international contexts. The project aims to investigate current challenges related to development, access, security, legal considerations, and necessary regulations. Additionally, it will develop a methodological approach to address these challenges and ensure the effective use of DTOs.
Exploring how Digital Twins Shape Multilateral Environmental Negotiations
Alice Vadrot and her research group will combine methods from ethnography and computational social science and apply them to digital ocean twins in the EU, China and the USA. In order to identify which features of digital twins promote inclusion, diversity and equity, ethnographic data will be collected at different policy levels and from a variety of research sites.
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Alice Vadrot at the Digital Ocean Forum 2024
Alice Vadrot attended the Digital Ocean Forum (DOF) 2024, which took place on 13th June 2024 at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels.
The Future of Global Environmental Negotiations: Assessing the Role of Science and Technology
On the 6th of June 2024, the research group of Alice Vadrot celebrated six years of research within the ERC Starting Grant Project MARIPOLDATA (www.maripoldata.eu)
Warum die EU einen digitalen Zwilling des Ozeans baut
Die EU setzt derzeit gemeinsam mit der Mercator Stiftung ein ehrgeiziges Projekt um. Wissenschaftler*innen bauen eine digitale Kopie des Ozeans, die 2024 fertig sein soll.
Join our team: 4 vacant doctoral positions
Emerging digital twin technology holds promise in future solutions on governance and the mitigation of urgent environmental challenges. The doctoral students will collaborate and engage with different social science methods to study the role of digital twins in global environmental agreement-making.
