Defining an Ocean Literacy agenda for H2020 and transatlantic cooperation

Today, at the European Marine Board offices experts gathered for a two-day workshop to deliver recommendations to the European Commission DG Research & Innovation on mechanisms and initiatives to better support marine science outreach and education in the Horizon 2020 Programme. This workshop, co-organized by the European Marine Board and the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) at request of the European Commission, aims at identifing topics for ocean literacy calls in Horizon 2020 and issues relevant to ocean literacy which will require EU-North American (US and Canada) collaboration, as well as providing recommendations to the Commission on evaluation criteria for communication, education and outreach elements of Horizon 2020 marine scientific project proposals. See the photos here   The workshop report can be downloaded here.