The EurOCEAN 2023 conference will take place on 10-11 October 2023 as an in-person event at the Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos Mar de Vigo, Vigo, Galicia, Spain.

“One Ocean, One Mission, One Decade – One Voice”

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

Join us!

The draft conference programme is now 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.

The European Marine Board Members (representing over 10,000 scientists and technical staff in Europe) will meet on 12-13 October in Vigo to reflect on the outcomes from the EurOCEAN 2023 conference.

Co-organizers and support

The European Marine Board (EMB), together with the Technology Centre of the Sea (CETMAR), the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) through the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) and the Institute of Marine Research (IIM-CSIC) and the European Commission are co-organizing the EurOCEAN 2023 conference to take place on 10-11 October 2023 in Vigo, Spain. The conference has been added to the calendar of events of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU (July-December 2023).

The conference will also be co-organized with the Joint Programming Initiative on Oceans (JPI Oceans), the European Marine Research Network (EuroMarine), the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) and the European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology (EurOcean). This event is also supported by the European Union Innovation Actions EuroSea and EcoScope, he European Fisheries Control Agency (ECFA), the Centre for Marine Research of the University of Vigo (CIM-UVigo), the Campus do Mar, the Regional Government of Galicia (Xunta de Galicia), the Governing Board of CETMAR, the Marine Institute, the Council of the City of Vigo (Concello de Vigo), the Port of Vigo, and industry associations CONXEMAR and ANFACO.

More information

Please visit the website of the event here.

If you have any questions, please contact the EMB Secretariat at .