OCEANIDS: User-driven applications and tools for Climate-Inf

OCEANIDS aims at building user-driven applications and tools, which act as an enabling technological layer for regional authorities & stakeholders to achieve a more resilient and inclusive systemic pathway to a Blue Economy in coastal regions.
The project will allow a more integrated seascape management of coastal regions by bringing spatial and non-spatial data & services under a single-access window platform for Climate-Informed Maritime Spatial Planning (CI-MSP). The project delivers a Decision Support tool (the OCEANIDS Decision Support Platform - O-DSP), with an over-arching target to collect, harmonise and curate existing climate data services, making data accessible, reusable and interoperable for developing local adaptation strategies. OCEANIDS facilitates access to knowledge, data & digital services critical for better understanding and managing climate risks, enhancing adaptive capacities and supporting transformative innovations.
In addition, OCEANIDS sees inclusivity as an enabling, and required, factor towards a Blue Economy. The project strongly focuses on behavioural change, both on an individual and on a systemic level, enabling participating regions and communities to better understand and use potential social tipping points and systemic leverage points to accelerate transformative changes towards climate resilience. To achieve this, it promotes inclusive and deliberative governance through meaningful engagement and dialogue between citizens and stakeholders. This will be achieved using case-specific tools (i.e. ephemeral social networks) leveraging local citizens assemblies for bottom-up deliberation, cultivating a culture of civic engagement, thus empowering individuals to take action in their communities. Finally, the project will contribute to mobilising sustainable finance and resources towards adaptation at scale and closing the climate protection gap.