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 receives prestigious Henderlein Prize
We are delighted to announce that Alice Vadrot has been awarded the 2025 Franco-German Henrik Enderlein Prize. The €10,000 research prize recognises outstanding social scientists under the age of 40
Ocean Seminar Fourth Session on 18th June – Ocean Data Science Initiatives and the Making of Ocean Worlds
With UNOC3 coming to an end, we invite you to our fourth and final Ocean Seminar this semester as a sort of cap to the big Ocean Conference! In this
Ocean Governance at a critical juncture ahead of the Third UN Ocean Conference 2025 – our participation at UNOC 2025
The Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) is scheduled to take place in Nice, France, from June 9 to 13, 2025. UNOC3 aims to accelerate global action to conserve and sustainably use the ocean. TwinPolitics participates with field work, presentations and a special side event!
Panel on Digital Twins – Side Event on the EU-DTO at UNOC 2025
Making the Digital Twin of the Ocean fit for Global Marine Governance: Ethics, Politics, and Transformative Power? 12 June at 6 p.m. in the Auditorium at the Institut de la
Ocean Data Survey
This survey is interested in the use of ocean data, technology and knowledge by actors involved in ocean-related negotiations and policy-making. How and by whom is the data used? What
Ocean Seminar Third Session on 28th May – Steering Representations—Towards a Critical Understanding of Digital Twins in environmental governance
Let's get critical! In the third installment of our TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series on Wednesday, 28th May 2025, from 17:00 to 18:30 (CET) we are looking through a critical lense.
