MERCATOR OCEAN JOURNAL 
SEPTEMBER 2021 
kA. STATUS OF THE END OF COPERNICUS 1 4.3 Translation of the Copernicus Marine website static 
content into the EU languages 
In 2020 as well as Q1 of 2021, we have launched various 
projects and iInitiatives to continue implementing our 
communication strategy. These projects are at varying 
stages and will all be deploved in 2021. Among these include: 
4.1 Educational Explainers 
We are working on a section of our website that allows us 
to explain various oceanic phenomena, and concepts in the 
world of operational oceanography to the general public 
and policy-makers. This template within our website will 
be used to continue to grow our repertoire of explainers. 
The initial topics selected include: ocean warming, extreme 
events, operational oceanography, in situ, numerical 
models, and satellites. 
4.2 Ocean Climate Bulletin 
Our Ocean Monitoring Indicators (OMIs) catalogue is widely 
appreciated not only in the scientific community by policy- 
makers and the general public as they provide trends on 
the health of the ocean. In response to user demand, we 
are working on better highlighting about 10 key OMlIs that 
include data that is more recent than in the existing 
catalogue. Moreover, they will be presented with 
pedagogical materials, videos and interactive graphs 
-under the first [2015-2021] Copernicus phase, 
translation has begun for five major EU languages: 
French, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese, 
„under the next [2021-2027] Copernicus phase, 
the site'’s static content will be translated into the 
remaining official EU languages. 
4.4 Communications and press 
There will be continued improvement of our editorial 
zontent developed for our website, the Copernicus 
Ibserver, and to be published and covered by specialist 
and mainstream news sources. For example, we will have 
acampaignonthe Copernicus Marine Service achievements 
in the first [2015-2021] Copernicus phase. We will also 
publish several spots in magazines to show the Copernicus 
Marine contributions to monitoring the ocean state, 
pollution, and coastal regions, for example. 
5. FUTURE PROSPECTS ON COPERNICUS 2 
In the last years, we have prepared ourselves well to ramp up 
to achieve our goals for the next [2021-2027] Copernicus phase. 
Having nurtured our internal and external resources, we are 
better positioned to scale up our activities. Our strategy includes 
a focus on the three main facets of communication: Digita. 
‘website, tools and social media); editorial & press relations; 
and ocean literacy & outreach. The most growth-focus will be 
on the editorial and press relations, as the latter is a relatively 
nascent activity for our team and the potential for impact is the 
highest. There will also be increased focus on developing 
Jedicated digital tools for different audiences to explore their 
ocean Interests. Communications and tool partnerships have 
also been Identified as important elements to cultivate. 
eure 8: Important facets of communication used by the Copernicus Marine Service.