Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25 Fte (9)
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
9
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 4 25% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Domains of skills in activities covered by the Register: General Management, Science, IT, International Development, Marketing & Communications, Digital Ocean
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 the Ocean&Climate Platform
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
Our 10 associates/shareholders are:
CMCC (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici) in Italy, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) in Italy, CNRS (National Scientific Centre for Scientific Research) in France, IFREMER (Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) in France, IRD (Research and Development Institute) in France, Météo-France (National meteorological and climate service) in France, NERSC (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center) in Norway, PUERTOS DEL ESTADO ( the national body for the management of the ports) in Spain, SHOM (Navy’s Hydrography and Oceanography Service) in France and the UK MET OFFICE. -
Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission / H2020 / Horizon Europe 1,267,000€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission / H2020 / Horizon Europe 1,130,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Other financial info
Summary of cash/funds received for the last financial year:
BLUE CLOUD ( 18 K€) - EDITO INFRA (552 K€) - COCLICO (86 K€) - COCO2 (59 K€) - ESM2025 (29 K€) - EUROSEA (133 K€) - EDITO MODELLAB (231 K€) - ACCIBERG (3 K€) - NECCTON (216 K€) - TRIDENT (2 K€) - BLUECLOUD 2026 (18 K€) - OCEAN ICU (29 K€) -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
SEARICA
Communication activities
Jan. 2023 Organize Copernicus Marine training workshops under the theme Knowledge-4-Action and four WEkEO training workshops.
Feb. 2023: Annual operation review for all Copernicus Marine production units.
Mar. 2023 Implementation of a release of a new version of the Copernicus Marine Service portfolio to take into account the evolutions of the
products impacted by Brexit for Ocean Colour, Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice TACs.
Mar. 2023 The feedback management tool (canny.io) will be put in operational mode on the Copernicus Marine web portal
Mar. 2023 Edit Annual Implementation Report 2022 including details for Q4, 2022 – Part 1
Apr. 2023 Edit Quarterly Implementation Report 1 (QIR1).
May 2023 Meeting of the Copernicus Marine Stakeholder forum.
May 2023 Meeting of the Copernicus Marine Champion User Advisory Group (CMEMS CUAG).
April 2023 Meeting of the Copernicus WEkEO Champion User Advisory Group (WEkEO CUAG).
May 2023 Meeting of the Copernicus Marine Science & Technology Advisory Committee (STAC).
Jun. 2023 Copernicus Marine General Assembly.
Jun. 2023 Deployment of web portal and User Support of the Coastal and Arctic Hubs.
Jul. 2023 Edit Quarterly Implementation Report 2 (QIR2).
Jul. 2023 Mid-term review of the 14 Service Evolution Science&Technology projects that support the scientific and technical evolution of the
Copernicus Marine Service.
Sept. 2023 Release of a first version of a new web section showcasing the Copernicus marine product offer in a nutshell.
Sept. 2023 Implementation of the release of a new version of the Copernicus Marine Service portfolio to take into account the
evolutions of the North-West Shelf MFC products impacted by Brexit.
Sept. 2023 Launch event for the Copernicus Arctic and Coastal Thematic Hubs.
Oct. 2023 Coordination meeting with main contractors.
Oct. 2023 Operation of a new Marine Data Store (MDS) and Marine Information System (MIS) to disseminate ocean products on cloud, to facilitate
access and to provide computing resources and virtual environments for the users.
Oct. 2023 Delivery of the Ocean State Report 7 and its summary and launch an associated communication campaign.
Oct. 2023 Edit Quarterly Implementation Report 3 (QIR3).
Oct. 2023 Workshop on reanalyses and long term multiyear products.
Oct. 2023 Meeting of the Copernicus Marine Science & Technology Advisory Committee (STAC).
Nov. 2023. Meeting of the Copernicus Marine Champion User Advisory Group (CUAG).
Nov 2023 Meeting of the Copernicus WEkEO Champion User Advisory Group (CUAG).
Nov. 2023 Design Review to define the evolutions to be implemented in November 2024.
Dec. 2023 Release of an updated version of Copernicus Marine Service Evolution R&D roadmap.
Nov. 2023 Implementation of the main 2023 release of a new version of the Copernicus Marine Service portfolio.
Nov. 2023 Meeting of the Copernicus Marine Stakeholder forum.
Dec. 2023 Publication of the second Service Evolution Science&Technology call.
Dec. 2023 Delivery of the Copernicus Data Uptake public report.
Dec 2023 Delivery of the report that synthesizes user feedback gathered throughout 2023.
Report of the activity on the WEkEO service “discovery layer” to the EU Commission during the regular (quarterly) WEkEO supervisory
board meetingsOther activities
None declared
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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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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)