Coastal coordination of user needs and methodologies

The “Roadmap for the evolution of Copernicus marine and land services to better serve coastal users” by Mercator Ocean International and European Environment Agency defines the future evolution of Copernicus products to fulfil the needs of users in coastal areas. The Roadmap is composed of a short-term strategy and a long-term strategy that define principles to guide the future evolution of Copernicus products. The goal of this action is to support the long-term strategy, by capitalizing discussions at National level fostering interaction between different National discussion groups of different EU Countries. Cooperation with Copernicus Entrusted Entities (EE) will be strategic (in particular CMEMS, CLMS, C3S and CES with services for coastal areas) to let them be updated on the progressive results of the action. This will be achieved through:

• Investigation of already existing uses of Copernicus data and products for the coastal areas of interest;
• Sharing user needs discussed at National level in order to highlight users’ needs common to more countries or identify local needs;
• Identify gaps of service;
• Exchange methodologies developed at National level to analyse and prioritize user needs and define a common methodology to be used for the analysis in the final report of this action;
• Transfer results of this action to the EE running CEMS, CLMS, C3S and CES;
• Share information on innovative tools providing Copernicus derived products useful for users in coastal areas, helping the effectiveness of demonstration and pilot actions and raising the awareness of new services. 

Each partner will identify and participate in the meetings of one or more existing communities of Copernicus coastal users in its country or will organize a series of workshops with the aim of discussing coastal user needs, methodologies to analyse and prioritize such needs and to show latest Copernicus related services or prototypes of services delivering products for users in coastal areas. In particular, the action will take advantage of meetings organised in the framework of actions  2021-2-33 and 2021-2-42 that will be coordinated with this action. The link with actions 2021-2-33 and 2021-2-42 will also improve the capability of this action to collect information on innovative tools useful for coastal users.