Overview
Lobbying Costs
900,000€ - 999,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
MERCATOR OCEAN INTERNATIONAL (MOi)
EU Transparency Register
582545543216-74 First registered on 17 Jun 2021
Goals / Remit
Mercator Ocean International (MOi) is a non-profit organisation committed to building a science-based Digital Ocean for supporting the conservation and the sustainable use of our oceans and seas and marine resources (UN SDG14). MOi maintains an operational digital description of marine environment worldwide and helps organisations implement community and institutional programmes, projects, and initiative. Its Expert Services are used in the resolution of major environmental, climatic, and societal challenges of the planet. It continuously builds interactions between scientists, policymakers, public and institutional decision-makers, and the civil society.Mercator Ocean International has gained the reputation as a European and global leader in ocean prediction. It has also structured a committed network of ocean experts in Europe, proposing a unique marine data and information service, establishing integrated capacities for a digital depiction of the ocean.
Main EU files targeted
Mercator Ocean International contributes to the EU Green Deal, the Space Policy, the Integrated Maritime Policy (Blue Growth, Marine Data and Knowledge inter alia), the International Ocean Governance/IOG Forum, the All-Atlantic Ocean research Forum, the Mission "Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030", Destination Earth (Digital Strategy), International Partnerships and Foreign Policy, Actions and roadmap to tackle plastic pollution and marine litter.
Address
Head Office
2 AVENUE DE L'AERODROME DE MONTAUDRAN
TOULOUSE 31400
FRANCEEU Office
2 AVENUE DE L'AERODROME DE MONTAUDRAN
TOULOUSE 31400
FRANCEWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 4 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Domains of skills in activities covered by the Register: General Management, Science, IS, International Development, Marketing & Communications
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Mercator Ocean International is a Participating Organisation of GEO (Group on Earth Observation).
Mercator Ocean International is a member of EuroGOOS
Mercator Ocean International is a member of Aerospace Valley
Mercator Ocean International is a member of Cluster Maritime Français
Mercator Ocean International is a member of Pôle Mer Méditérannée
Mercator Ocean International is a partner of Ocean Energy Europe
Mercator OCean International is a member of the Ocean&Climate Platform
Mercator Ocean International is a partner of EARSC
Mercator Ocean International contributes to major international scientific initiatives (OceanPredict, UN DECADE OF OCEAN SCIENCE, the World Climate Research programme, WMO, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, NEMO)
Mercator Ocean International is a partner of major Ocean Data acquisition networks: the Global Ocean Observing System, The Global Climate Observing System, ESA, EUMETSAT, EuroARGO...Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
900,000€ - 999,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission / H2020 880,000€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission / H2020 450,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
900,000€ - 999,999€
Other financial info
Summary of cash/funds received for:
BLUE CLOUD (55 K€) - IMMERSE (279 K€) - ESIWACE2 (17,7K€) - EDITO INFRA (79 K€)
COCLICO (23 K€) - COCO2 (93K€) - ESM2025 (139 K€) - ECFAS (188 K€) - EUROSEA (155 K€) - ESM 2025 (48 K€)
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
SEARICA
Communication activities
In June 2021, in the frame of the All-Atlantic 2021 Conference, MOi organised 3 side events related to the G7 Future of the Seas and Oceans Initiative and GEO Blue Planet about global ocean data sharing and infrastructure, monitoring and managing marine litter and Sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean. For ensuring Copernicus Marine Service visibility, MOi has jointly developed with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the NGO Sulitest.org the very first educational module dedicated to the Ocean and SDG14 “Life below Water. The module was launched in July 2021 during the UN HLPF Event with Bernhard Friess, Maritime Policy and Blue Economy Director, EC Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. In Fall 2021, MOi has jointly developed with EUMETSAT, ECMWF and EEA a new massive open online course (MOOC) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Earth monitoring for the Copernicus Programme (EC DG DEFIS). MOI has published the summary of the fifth Ocean State Report, available in a concise, illustrated, and easily accessible format, that is intended to act as a reference for the scientific community, policy-makers in charge of coastal and marine activities, and the general public to better understand the importance and impacts of a changing ocean. On 27 September, Mercator Ocean International (MOi) held an open community dialogue meeting to discuss MOi’s candidature to host the first Collaborative Centre for Ocean Prediction in support of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade)aligned with the EU Green Deal. Over 60 participants attended the meeting from 18 countries representing 28 programmes, projects, and organisations working on various aspects of ocean prediction. This dialogue has continued with EC DG Research and Innovation's Healthy Ocean and Seas Unit. On Oct2021, MOi published its “Journal Issue 57: The Copernicus Marine Service, Copernicus 1 Achievements from 2015 to 2021” marking the end of the first phase of Copernicus. It was presented at the Copernicus Marine and WEkEO Services kick-off event on 12 October 2021, ensuring the continuity of Marine Earth Observations and monitoring powered by the European Union. The event, hosted by the EC DG DEFIS was opened by its Director-General, Timo Pesonen who shared key messages on the Marine’s Service results and the European Commissions’ ambitions for Copernicus and its Services in Copernicus 2 (2021 – 2027). MOi reinforced its commitment to GEO during the GEOWEEK 2021 (November) by presenting the work of the European Coordination Office of GEO’s Blue Planet Initiative, that it has been hosting since 2020, as part of the EU4OceanObs Foreign Policy Instrument Action of the European Commission. The #OceanChallenge4Africa online hackathon has been launched in February 2022 (to be held on April 8-10) and aims to gather participants to tackle ocean challenges in the coastal and marine regions of Africa. Teams will be invited to create innovative and impact-driven ocean solutions using Copernicus marine earth-observation data, to contribute to the sustainable use of ocean and coastal resources in Africa. In the frame of the French Presidency of the EU Council, at the One Ocean Summit organised by France in Brest, from the 9th to 11th of February 2022, six European States showed commitment to developing EUropean oceanographic excellence by transforming Mercator Ocean into an intergovernmental body by 2024. This was solidified in the “Declaration of Brest” presented during the “Commitment to a world digital ocean and the transformation of Mercator Ocean into an international organisation” event. Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries brought his support during the event as Copernicus Marine Service and EMODnet are two pillars of the next EU Digital Twin Ocean, announced by the President of the EC Ursula von der Leyen on February 11th and a key objective of the EU Mission "Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030".
Other activities
-Mercator Ocean International is fully committed to the Green and Digital transition of the EU.
-Mercator Ocean International (MOi) has been implementing the EU Copernicus Marine Service since 2014.
-MOi has been implementing WEkEO with EUMETSAT, ECMWF and EEA, the EU Copernicus DIAS reference service for environmental data, virtual processing environments and skilled user support.
-MOi has been piloting since November 2020 the “EU4OceanObs” project funded through the Partnership Instrument managed by the European Commission service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), meant to develop an international strategy for Ocean Observation with the Group on Earth Observation (GEO), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and its G7 Coordination centre.
Meetings
Meetings
7 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 14 Sep 2022 Location video-call Subject Marine observation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Sep 2022 Location video-call Subject Marine observation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jun 2022 Location video-call Subject European Green Deal and ocean data and observation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jun 2022 Location Online Subject European Green Deal and ocean data and observation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Elena Montani (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Jan 2022 Location Brussels Subject Presentation and discussion on European Digital Twin Ocean on EMODnet and Copernicus Marine DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Charlina Vitcheva (Director-General)
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Date 10 Dec 2021 Location Brussels Subject Oceans mission DG Research and Innovation Attending - Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
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Date 07 Jun 2021 Location Brussels - Zoom Subject Presentation and discussion on Copernicus Marine service DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Charlina Vitcheva (Director-General)