The Open Sea Lab 2019 will address challenges in three main categories:
For each of these main categories, several challenges have been defined, which serve as inpiration for the hackathon:
Sustainable Blue Economy
How might we:
- Use vessel data to monitor the environmental footprint of maritime traffic?
- Stimulate novel sustainable blue tourism opportunities?
- Develop tools to select and /or assess aquaculture sites, now and in the future?
Marine Environmental Management & Protection
How might we:
- Develop a dynamic tool to create on-the-fly species distribution maps for important marine species?
- Quantify the impact of our maritime activities on the seabed for better environmental management?
- Develop tools to assess the impact of invasive species on marine ecosystems?
Ocean Literacy and Blue Society
How might we:
- Create tools, products or services to better inform our citizens about the relationship between our activities and the marine environment?
- Develop new ways to make digital resources, such as those available via the European Atlas of the Seas, more accessible for the broad public using mobile applications?
- Empower citizens with tools to help them become ocean stewards and contribute to better ocean governance?
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