Past Events

The European Marine Board’s Policy Brief N^o6 ‘Navigating the Future V: Recommendations for the Ocean Decade’ will be launched at European Parliament on 19th November, 2019 as part of the 'Key environmental challenges & the role of the Sustainable Development Goals' event. The Policy Brief provides recommendations developed by European experts, as part of Navigating the Future V, to ensure that ocean science supports and guides the implementation of the SDGs, which is the focus of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainability (2021-2030). There is a need for a solutions-oriented, transdisciplinary marine research agenda to address the societal outcomes of the Ocean Decade. An increased use of ocean resources is required to achieve the SDGs and this must be done within the context of protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services to ensure their long-term sustainability. This event is co-organized by the European Bureau for Conservation and Development.

What would the perfect network of biodiversity observatories in Europe look like, what would it be able to achieve, how would it make the lives of Europeans better, and how would it make policy-makers’ work easier? Dr. Matthew Frost, MBA Deputy Director and President of the European Network of Marine Stations (MARS) sparked the conversation on this topic at EMB's 3^rd Brown Bag Lunch Session on Wednesday 2 October at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

EurOCEAN conferences are major European marine science policy conferences providing a forum for the marine and maritime research community and wider stakeholders to interface with European and Member State policymakers and strategic planners, to consider, discuss and respond to new marine science and technology developments, challenges and opportunities. The next edition will take place on 11-12 June 2019, in Paris (France), hosted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.