The Digital Twins Technologies group at CSC is organising a hybrid Digital Twin seminar around the theme climate, biodiversity and Earth Systems. Currently, in Europe there are many research activities on developing digital twins to support decision-making on climate change, extreme weather and biodiversity loss. The goal of this seminar is to bring together researchers already contributing to the development of these digital twins, as well as, researchers not yet familiar with digital twins but interested to learn how their models or observations could feed into digital twin development.
Digital Twins are virtual representations of real-life objects, systems or processes. A digital twin uses data from sensors and other sources to simulate, monitor, analyze, and predict the behavior or activity of its counterpart. Moreover, it may connect the physical and digital worlds, to promote informed decision-making and to improve processes and predictions.
For in-person participants there is the opportunity to present their work in oral or poster presentations.
Agenda
09:00 - 09:30 Registration with coffee and sandwiches
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome words by the Organising Committee
09:35 - 10:00 Overview of Digital Twins developed at CSC by Jenni Kontkanen, Digital Twins Technologies, CSC - IT Center for Science
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote: Roadmap for building a virtual research architecture suppporing digital twins for water management by Elizabeth Carter, University of Oulu
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Session 1
Blueprint conceptualization for a river basin’s digital twin, Debasish Pal, University of Oulu
Digital Forest Twins: How Data-Driven Management Boosts Growth and Carbon Capture, Evgeny Lopatin, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)
The Climate Adaptation Digital Twin: Towards operational high-resolution climate simulations, Theresa Kiszler, CSC - IT Center for Science
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 13:15 Keynote: Aerosols in Digital Twins of Climate by Harri Kokkola, Finnish Meteorological Institute
13.15 - 14:15 Session 2
WSFS-Vemala: towards a digital twin of Finland’s river basins, Marie Korppoo, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Forest Digital Twin Component, Renne Tergujeff, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
Earth Observation based Digital Twin for Resilient Agriculture under Multiple Stressors, Gohar Ghazaryan, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
14:15 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 16:00 Demos and poster session
Practicalities
Fees: This event is free of charge. Lunch is at one's own expense.
Registration: In-person participation and abstract submission is open until 25.10.2025 at 23.59 EET. Online participation is open until 4.11.2025 at 23:59 EET.
Contact the organizers: You can contact the organizers in case of questions or other matters by e-mail at dtt-contact(at)postit.csc.fi
Posters: The preferred size for posters is DIN A1 (594 x 841 millimeters) in portrait mode.
Talks: The planned length of the oral presentations is 10 to 15 minutes with 5 minutes discussion. The planned total slot length is 20 minutes.