During the week 14-16 October 2025, the SEADITO partners convened in Santander, Spain, hosted by our partner IHCantabria for the third in-person project meeting – a key moment to reflect on the first year of work and align next steps toward delivering robust social-ecological models for integration into the EDITO – European Digital Twin Ocean.
DAY ONE focused on updates from all regional and pan-European case studies, with presentations highlighting completed stakeholder workshops, problem definitions, and scenario aims. Human-marine environment interactions resulted as a central theme across the project cases. The day concluded with a presentation by @SINTEFocean on how SEADITO’s socio-ecological models align with broader EU DTO initiatives such as SeaTwins, DTO-BioFlow, SURIMI, EcoTwin, and SEA DOTS.
DAY TWO advanced our modelling tools and integration strategies. HCMR – Institute of Oceanography opened with a presentation on the challenge of integrating qualitative data from concept maps into fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs). Followed by a methodology session to ensure consistent FCM use across all case studies. Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) introduced Bayesian networks for evaluating environmental and economic goals, and also spoke about the SEADITO Explorer and What-If Scenarios Toolkit, featuring 3D visualisations, tale maps, extended reality tools, and interactive storytelling platforms. Towards the end of the day Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) led a workshop on the technical implementation of social-ecological models, discussing deployment strategies and integration pathways.
The last day was dedicated to the General assembly.
