Mark your calendars for the 4th edition of the EMODnet Open Sea Lab (OSL) Hackathon, happening online from 25 to 27 March 2025. The hackathon builds on the last 3 successful editions, with one key difference: In addition to using EMODnet services, participants will be given unparalleled access to the EMODnet and Copernicus Marine Service offer via the European Digital Twin Ocean infrastructure (EDITO).
- Meetings
9th European Marine Board (EMB) Forum
- Date: 2 April 2025
- Location: Brussels, Belgium & Online
On Wednesday 2 April 2025, EMB will host its 9th Forum on ‘Addressing coastal and water resilience on the land-sea interface’.
EMB’s open Fora provide an opportunity to bring together the marine science and policy communities to jointly discuss important issues.
The 9th EMB Forum will discuss ‘Addressing coastal and water resilience on the land-sea interface’. This one day event will consider aspects such as policy and governance for the land-sea interface, pollution crossing the land-sea interface, and coastal adaptation and livability on the land-sea interface.
- Training Course
EMBRC: FAIR Data for Marine Scientists
- Date: 1 - 3 April 2025
- Location: Ostend, Belgium (+2.5 days hybrid option)
This is a 3-day course for onsite participants, of which the first 2.5-days are also open to online participants. In the final half day, the onsite students will bring all they have learned together in an interactive Make-My-Data-FAIR session. We will also have a “Data Clinic” in which the onsite students can ask their particular questions of the various experts of the VLIZ Data Centre on data FAIRness, data management, data archiving, etc.
All materials will be provided online / open access for future trainers to be able to use “back home”.
- Conferences
European Maritime Day 2025
- Date: 21 - 23 May 2025
- Location: Cork, Ireland
Looking ahead to 2025, we are preparing the next EMD and are thrilled to introduce you to the city of Cork in Ireland where the conference will be held as an in-person event (with some live streaming) for 1000+ participants. Have a look at the beautiful video and enjoy the beautiful maritime landscape which will give you a taste of what the next EMD will look like.
- Conferences
EPIMAR2025 – Third International Symposium on Epigenetics in Marine and Aquatic Research
- Date: 27 - 30 May 2025
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
The Third International Symposium on Epigenetics in Marine and Aquatic Research (EPIMAR2025), will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from May 27 to 30, 2025
It will promote the gathering and exchange of information among researchers interested in marine epigenetics, covering a variety of cutting-edge aspects, and thus contribute to consolidating the “Epimar community”.
- Conferences
One Ocean Science Congress
- Date: 4 – 6 June 2025
- Location: Nice, France
The Congress will feature a mix of plenary sessions, including opening and keynote speeches, alongside parallel oral and poster presentations. To enhance interactions between science and society, action and policy, and to engage civil society more broadly, ‘townhalls’ such as panels and roundtables will also be arranged.
This event is part of The UN Ocean Conference 2025.
The abstract submission deadline is Thursday, 14 November 2024, 13:00 CET
- Conferences
2025 UN Ocean Conference
- Date: 9 – 13 June 2025
- Location: Nice, France
The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025.
The overarching theme of the Conference is “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean”. The Conference aims to support further and urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and identify further ways and means to support the implementation of SDG 14. It will build on existing instruments to form successful partnerships towards the swift conclusion and effective implementation of ongoing processes that contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean.
- Conferences
MARE Conference 2025 – People & the Sea
- Date: 24 - 27 June 2025
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This year’s conference focuses on the balance between tensions, trade-offs, and the potential transformations required for the future of sustainable marine resource management and governance, thriving coastal livelihoods and healthy, biodiverse oceans. The conference takes place right in the middle of the Ocean decade (2020-2030) and MARE seizes the opportunity to reflect on where they currently stand using the ‘People and the Sea’ lens.
- Training Course
The GOOD-OARS Summer School 2025
- Date: 4-11 November 2025
- Location: CEMACS in Penang, Malaysia
The summer school will welcome up to 40 Early Career Researchers, PhD students, and highly motivated MSc students who aim to work on or with ocean acidification and deoxygenation. The school will be hosted by the Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies of Universiti Sains Malaysia (CEMACS) and is established under the Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD) and Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability (OARS) programmes of the UN Ocean Decade. It aims to train the next generation of ocean oxygen and acidification scientists and researchers in the foundations of both fields, with instruction and lectures from world experts in a friendly setting for discussion.
You can read more about the school on its website. The school will run from 4-11 November 2025 at CEMACS in Penang, Malaysia. Applications are open until 10 January 2025. Applicants should expect to hear back on or before 7 February 2025.
- Conferences
7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity
- Date: 17 - 20 November 2026
- Location: Bruges, Belgium
The 7th edition of the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity will be organized in Bruges between November 17th and 20th 2026. Find out more about the venue here.
The WCMB 2026 will fly the UN Ocean Decade flag, as it has been endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Event. The overall theme of the Conference is “The marine biodiversity insights we need, for the ocean we want”. As the Conference will take place a little over halfway through the UN Ocean Decade, it will provide an excellent opportunity to take stock of ongoing actions and initiatives, but also evaluate what still needs to be tackled by the end of the Decade.