Date
10/10/2023 - 11/10/2023
The EurOCEAN 2023 conference will take place on 10-11 October 2023 as an in-person event in Vigo, Spain. The organization led by the European Marine Board, EuroOCEAN 2023 is co-organized with several other organizations, including EuroGOOS, as well as the European Commission.
European Mission Ocean and Waters has set up ambitious objectives to be achieved by 2030 to restore our ocean and waters, and to realize the science we need for this purpose. We are now approaching the middle of the decade, and entering a new phase that goes from mobilization via the Mission Charter and the Ocean Decade Actions, to rally our efforts and work together to see the impact of our collective action, and investigate how we will meet these objectives for 2030. We have One Decade to accomplish One Mission. We need One Voice to achieve the One Ocean we want.
EurOCEAN conferences are major European marine science-policy conferences organized every 4-5 years. They provide a forum for the marine and maritime research community and wider stakeholders to interface with European and Member State policymakers and strategic planners. The aim of the EurOCEAN 2023 science-policy conference is to highlight the synergies between the EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030, other EU research and innovation, and management initiatives, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. EurOCEAN 2023 will attract marine policy makers, marine scientists, science stakeholders and communicators, maritime industry representatives and European and national decision makers and programme managers, i.e. those that set, manage and implement the marine science agenda.
Conference topics
- Enabling ecosystem-based management for fisheries and conservation
- Addressing pharmaceutical pollution from inland to sea
- Transforming ports at the interface between land, society and the Blue Economy
- Ensuring ocean knowledge in the age of the Digital Ocean
- Changing humanity’s relationship with the ocean: art as agent of change
- Building coastal resilience
- What’s next: rallying actions for our Ocean and Waters
Register here by Friday 15 September 2023.
The draft conference programme is available here.
Other events and visits will happen around those dates outside the main conference organization. The list of back-to-back events is available here. Please be aware that these side events require additional registration.
The EurOCEAN 2023 conference will have active involvement in all the sessions of Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP), as they will be responsible for dealing with the consequences of our actions in 2030. The 1st EMB Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) Network Forum will be held on 8-9 October 2023 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The reflections and recommendations from this event on future engagement of ECOPs in the science-policy sphere will be presented at the EurOCEAN 2023 conference.
Location
Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos Mar de Vigo
