Laurent Mortier, the scientific coordinator of AMRIT, was invited by DG MARE to present the project at a meeting attended by three other DGs. He was accompanied by Joanna Post, Director of the GOOS office and Inga Lips, director of the secretariat of our partner EuroGOOS.
The AMRIT project is of remarkable interest to the European Commission, which sees it as a project that will encourage the emergence of a genuine ocean observation system for European seas. DG MARE is particularly interested in AMRIT, which is developing an information system that meets DGMARE's priorities for ocean observation. This is why several meetings have already been held with Rémy Denos, Deputy Head of Unit DG MARE Unit A1, to bring the project closer to DG MARE's initiatives.
Thanks to the meeting held in Brussels on 9 July, the project was presented in greater detail to DGMARE, DG RDT, DG ENV and DG DEFIS, which oversees the Copernicus programme. To show how AMRIT fits into the global and European observation landscape, Laurent Mortier was accompanied by Joanna Post, director of the GOOS office and Inga Lips, director of the secretariat of EuroGOOS which is strongly engaged inbuilding the EOOS framework.
After this initial meeting, the project needs to look in more detail at how it fits in with the needs and initiatives of these DGs and, with its future results, contribute where appropriate to a more integrated approach by the European Commission to the development of EOOS.