EMODnet and the National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS) of China continue partnership collaboration after successful completion of the pilot projects EMOD-PACE and CEMDnet – Watch the VIDEO!

After 34 months of intense collaboration, the EU-China collaborative ocean-data pilot projects EMOD-PACE (EMODnet Partnership for China and Europe) and CEMDnet (China-EU Marine Data Network Partnership) came to their end on 31 December 2022. The projects successfully connected EMODnet with the Chinese National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS)  to provide interoperable access to shared data resources and generate new products and insights through various technical and scientific assessments, among others in relation to ocean circulation modeling, ecosystem resilience, habitat mapping and coastal adaptation. Colleagues from both projects gathered online for an open final workshop and meeting to celebrate the achievements of the very productive collaboration and showcase and promote the impressive results to other interested experts, users and stakeholders. These include among others the deployment of technical data interoperability solutions, the extensive assessment of different approaches for validation and modelling, and the development of over 100 informative data products available as map layers.

We invite you to watch the final project video  to gain insights and reflections on the achievement of the EMOD-PACE project. Visit the Central Portal to read more on both projects and its outcomes, and the EMODnet map viewer to visualize its many data products.

While the EU-China pilot projects EMOD-PACE and CEMDnet have ended, the collaboration between EMODnet and the Chinese National Marine Data and Information Service will be maintained and even strengthened as agreed via a Memorandum of Understanding between EMODnet and NMDIS. All the outputs produced by the pilot projects, including hundreds of data layers, will remain available via the EMODnet central portal. As a legacy of the efforts, EMODnet and NMDIS have agreed to ensure the continuation of data access and visualisation services, continue the dissemination of outputs and to explore further collaboration with other European, Chinese and South-East Asian ocean data networks and services using the established practices as a blueprint for the future work involving other partners.