Understanding public demands and preferences are crucial for policy success. This Policy Brief summarises the findings of a large-scale survey led by the University of Malta and performed as part of the EcoScope project to understand citizens’ views and preferences for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM). The Brief was published by the European Marine Board and created as part of the EcoScope project.
Project reports
EcoScope (Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems) was a Horizon 2020 project that aimed to promote effective ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) by developing a series of decision-support tools to support its implementation. Stakeholder engagement and co-creation of the EcoScope tools was an important element of the project. This report provides a summary of the second and final stakeholder workshop.
SURIMI aims to make expert fisheries dynamics models accessible to non-experts through the SURIMI Toolbox, and by integrating these models and the Toolbox into the EU Digital Twin Ocean. To ensure that the SURIMI Toolbox is relevant to the end-users, stakeholder engagement is a core component of SURIMI. The first stakeholder workshop was held in February 2025. This report provides a summary of this first workshop.
The European Marine Board Secretariat organized a foresight workshop on the sustainability of the ocean observing and forecasting system, supported by the EU Innovation Action EuroSea, on 15-16 March 2023 at the Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels (Belgium). The workshop aimed to gather key recommendations or considerations for possible future mechanisms to sustainably fund and coordinate ocean observation, prediction and information delivery in Europe.
EcoScope (Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems) was a Horizon 2020 project that aimed to promote effective ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) by developing a series of decision-support tools to support its implementation. Stakeholder engagement and co-creation of the EcoScope tools was a key element of the project. This report provides a summary of the first stakeholder workshop.
The Horizon 2020 funded EcoScope project aims to develop a series of e-tools that will serve as an easy-to-use decision support system to implement ecosystem-based fisheries management. The aim of this report was to inform the development of the EcoScope e-tools by (1) providing a holistic picture on the international, European and sea-basin wide policy landscape that directly or indirectly influence the needs of policy makers and stakeholders in regards to EBFM; and (2) identifying key stakeholder needs related to these policy commitments.
EcoScope aims to develop a series of e-tools that can be easily used by stakeholders as a decision support system to implement an ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM). A survey was conducted as a first step to gauge the specific requirements of key stakeholders for the EcoScope tools. This deliverable presents the results of the survey.
This report captures the major foresight initiatives and documents relevant for European ocean observation and forecasting.
This Policy Brief highlights the inextricable links between oceans health and human health. It presents the main challenges in moving towards a European policy framework that supports and enables Oceans and Human Health to be addressed in a holistic manner. It highlights the research, training, data, monitoring and funding needs to enable such a policy framework to be developed. This publication was produced together with the EU-funded SOPHIE project.
Strategic Reseach Agenda for Oceans and Human Health Research in Europe, arising from the H2020 SOPHIE project