On 16 October 2025, the kick off meeting was held for the new EMB working group on 'Biomolecular approaches to the observation and management of marine life' at the Ryan Institute of the University of Galway, hosted by the Chair of the working group, Prof. Louise Allcock.
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The 9th EMB Forum Proceedings were published today and provide a summary of the discussions that took place in Brussels and online on 2 April 2025, along with key messages. In light of the new European Water Resilience Strategy and Ocean Pact, and the ongoing objectives of the EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters (Mission Ocean), and the challenges of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade), it was timely to focus on the land-sea interface.
A new Policy Brief, created under the EcoScope project and published by the European Marine Board, shows strong public support for sustainable fishing practices, particularly those that protect marine life, even though most citizens are unfamiliar with the concept of Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM).
EMB Secretariat Members Sheila Heymans, Ana Rodriguez and Fernanda Bayo attend the last EcoScope General Assembly in Athens.
The European Marine Board (EMB) Secretariat will be participating in the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) and the One Ocean Science Congress (OOSC). Both events take place in Nice, France, and will bring together scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders to advance evidence-based governance and sustainable management of the Ocean.
A group of internationally renowned marine scientists under the European Marine Board has published the Future Science Brief on ‘Deep Sea Research and Management Needs’. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of knowledge and offers recommendations for how both the exploration and management of the deep sea can be made more sustainable. The scientists issue a clear warning: without a thorough understanding of ecosystem processes and biodiversity, informed decisions on the sustainable use and protection of the deep sea are not possible. They are now calling for targeted research to close these knowledge gaps and ensure long-term preservation of the deep sea.
ChihChung Chang and Yara Costa have been selected as the two new artists for the 2025 - 2026 edition of the EMBracing the Ocean programme!
We are delighted to introduce our two new EMB Young Ambassadors! We can now announce that Anne Gaspers, a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway which is part of the Norwegian Marine University Consortium, and a researcher at SINTEF Ocean, and Jorge Juan Santos Bruna, a PhD candidate at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), Spain, have been selected! You can find out more about them here. We look forward to working with them.
EMB Policy Brief No. 13 ‘Navigating the Future VI: The Ocean's role in addressing global crises’ presents main research and policy recommendations needed to help us address the global crises we face through Ocean science, summarising the main messages and recommendations from the EMB Position Paper No. 28 “Navigating the Future VI: Placing the Ocean within the wider Earth system”.
EMB has been actively advocating on the importance of marine knowledge for the European Ocean Pact by helping to shape the position of the SEArica Intergroup of the European Parliament, responding to the Call for Evidence by the European Commission, and engaging in direct discussions with the Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis.