1. Towards Sustainability Partnership for a European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting (ECOMF) 16 April 2013, MyOcean Annual Review, Cork, Ireland MyOcean Annual Review – CORK – APRIL 16/17, 2013

2. Content Pierre Bahurel’s talk given by Mike Bell Overview of strategy, approach and time-frame (1) Securing the production and service (2) Securing the partnership with the national level Conclusions

3. Implementing the Copernicus Marine Service (operational phase)  A reliable production & service  A deep and efficient user uptake A two-fold strategy of the marine community Marine Core Service Implementation Group (IG report, April 2007)

4. Progress achieved through (last 12 months) Working meetings of an ECOMF group (~20 people), initiated by the MyOcean2 Board : 7 meetings since MyOcean2 kick-off Discussions with EuroGOOS: Nicosia workshop, EuroGOOS assembly in Hamburg Discussions with EC, as frequently as possible for them Discussions with stakeholders: ECMWF, Eumetsat, EEA, … Communication in various symposium and workshops (e.g. user workshop last week, or GMES User Forum last month)

5. Timeframe The FP7 MyOcean2 project ends at the end of September 2014 With Copernicus, EC has now a very good chance to have the administrative & funding framework ready for 2014. Beneficiaries of the following phase are not yet decided by EC. Our goal is to propose ECOMF partnership and have it ready to take over the post-MyOcean2 phase and ensure full service continuity. 2011, kick-off 2012, design 2013, implement. 2014, ready ECOMF

6. Strategic partnership for a « European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting » (ECOMF) Strengthen the operational core MoU ECOMF signed in 2012 by the 14 main current operators of the MyOcean2 service Ensure win-win relations with Member States services Nicosia Declaration adopted in 2012 by EuroGOOS and the marine community ECOMF, a two-fold strategy defined in MyOcean2 with EuroGOOS

7. ECOMF Strategic Partnership, Nicosia, 10/10/2012 ECOMF strategic partnership for a sustained Marine Service MoU ECOMF signed in 2012 by the 14 main current operators of the MyOcean2 service  Create a common entity to secure European operations & service Nicosia Declaration adopted in 2012 by EuroGOOS and the marine community  Implement the strategic partnership with national centres

8. (1) Securing the production & service

9. Sea Level Ocean Color SST, Ice, Wind In Situ Arctic Ocean Baltic Sea Atlantic NWS Atlantic IBI Mediterranean Sea Global Ocean Black Sea 4 Thematic Assembly Centres 7 Monitoring and Forecasting Centres Observations Models Service Desk Securing the operational production & service chain

10. Securing the operational production & service chain Signed on 10 Feb 2012, by Coord & Global: Mercator Ocean Arctic: NERSC Baltic: DMI, SMHI, BSH Atl. NWS: Met Office Atl. IBI: Puertos del Estado Med Sea: INGV, HCMR Black Sea: MHI Sea Level: CLS Ocean Color: CNR SST, Ice, Wind: met.no In Situ: Ifremer

11. ECOMF entity Plans for a European Economic Interest Grouping Scope and organization based on MyOcean & MyOcean2 experience ; service continuity. Ongoing effort – on the legal implementation (members) – on the interface with EC (contract)

12. ECOMF documents in preparation Concept Business model Implementation options Work programme Estimates of costs

13. (2) Securing the partnership with the national level

14. ECOMF Strategic Partnership, Nicosia, 10/10/2012 ECOMF Strategic Partnership Strategic partnership between the European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting and National Ocean Centres NICOSIA, 10 OCTOBER 2012

15. ECOMF Strategic Partnership, Nicosia, 10/10/2012 The Nicosia Declaration A major agreement for the future European GMES Marine Service Agreed on the 10 th October 2012 Worked out by:  MyOcean2 board  National Agencies & Institutes of Member States, members of EuroGOOS. Defines an ECOMF Strategic Partnership (ESP) between the “national” institutions that deliver data and predictions to their national or local authorities and ECOMF.

16. What is the ECOMF Strategic Partnership An alliance between: – The future European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting – The national institutions that deliver operational oceanography services. Implemented in collaboration with – EuroGOOS and its members – ROOSes and their members The Partnership started with the Nicosia Declaration in October 2012.

17. ECOMF Strategic Partnership members The National institutions – which provide operational oceanography services over their marine domain – which deliver their services to national and/or regional key users EuroGOOS AISBL – responsible for coordinated, strategic development and promotion of operational oceanographic services at European and regional levels ROOSes – responsible for coordinating the development of operational oceanographic systems at regional level (MONGOOS, BOOS, NOOS, etc) ECOMF Members

18. The Nicosia Declaration Agreed between 27 institutions – BSH, Germany – CNR, Italy – DMI, Denmark – FCOO, Denmark – MITU, Estonia – FMI, Finland – HCMR, Greece – IMGW, Poland – INGV, Italy – IH, Portugal – IOI-UM, Malta – MSI TUT, Estonia – Mercator Ocean, France Met.no, Norway Met Office, UK MHI, Ukraine MUMM, Belgium NERSC, Norway OC-UCY, Cyprus SMHI, Sweden Puertos de Estado, Spain IMS-METU, Turkey IMB, Slovenia SOCIB, Spain IOLR, Israel IMR, Ireland IO-BAS, Bulgaria

19. Conclusion A 2-fold strategy, based on a European entity ECOMF and a partnership with national centres, defined with EuroGOOS to sustain the Marine Service infrastructure. Discussion with the main stakeholders: EuroGOOS, but also ECMWF, EEA, Eumetsat, ESA A strong effort devoted by core partners to progress in the legal implementation phase, and also regularly adapt plans to EC strategy when this one evolves Year 2013 is critical. A collective approach at the marine community level is key. Collaboration with EuroGOOS is exemplary.