Get Involved: Workshops

Get Involved: The SURIMI Stakeholder Forum

SURIMI aims to cultivate trust, ground-truth models, enhance user-friendly design and promote shared ownership of the SURIMI toolbox. Our focus is to develop tools in an agile, demand- driven environment with genuine involvement of a large array of actors to keep our work relevant to society and ocean management. SURIMI will host three workshops and invite stakeholders from a wide range of sectors to participate:

Policymakers, Advisory Bodies, Scientific Institutions, Model Developers, Data Providers, Advocacy Groups, Businesses, Citizens and more!

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SURIMI co-design workshop

Co-Design Workshop

Main Objectives

Introducing the SURIMI Toolbox: The workshop will showcase how stakeholders can customise fisheries models by selecting and combining components from a suite of marine ecology and socio-economic models. Existing models and new concepts will be presented, with videos available for reference before and after the workshop.

Gathering Feedback: Stakeholders will provide feedback on the usability of the toolbox and its models, helping ensure that the tools meet their specific needs. Their input on key social, economic, and ecological indicators will shape the development of the toolbox and foster a sense of co-ownership.

Setting Expectations: The workshop will clarify the purpose of the SURIMI Toolbox and manage expectations, explaining how scenario analysis works within the complexity of fisheries systems, as well as the role of uncertainties in the data and simulations.

Co-Creation Workshop

Main Objectives

Explore Policy Scenarios: Identify the types of “what-if” policy scenarios that matter most to stakeholders and discuss how the SURIMI Toolbox can help test them. A selection of these scenarios will be implemented for use in the toolbox.

Enhance Model Quality: Allow stakeholders to interact with the prototype of the SURIMI Toolbox to provide feedback on its models, helping refine and improve the final version.

Test Integration: Assess the interoperability of the SURIMI Toolbox with the European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO) platform, ensuring smooth data and model integration. The workshop will help identify and address any issues.

SURIMI co-creation workshop
Jellyfish

Co-Assessment Workshop

Main Objectives

Introducing the SURIMI Toolbox: Stakeholders will gain hands-on experience with the SURIMI toolbox, see how it integrates with the EU Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO), and access tutorial materials explaining each model component. They will also explore how to combine these models for “what-if” scenario analyses, simulating the effects of various policy decisions.

Wider Policy and Socio-Economic Applications: As the SURIMI toolbox reaches a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 5, stakeholders will discuss how it can be applied in different geographic and policy contexts. The focus will be on validating the combined models (ecological, socio-economic, policy, and assessment) with real-world data and expanding the toolbox’s usefulness for broader applications in future projects.

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