Marine Board of the European Science Foundation

The Marine Board-ESF (established 1995) provides a forum for the strategic co-ordination of the activities and policies of national marine research funding agencies and national marine research facilities, towards enhanced synergy. With its current membership of 31 marine research organisations from 20 European countries, the Marine Board addresses four main objectives: creating a forum for its member organisations; identifying scientific strategic issues through foresight activities; providing a voice for European marine science; and promoting synergy among national programmes and research facilities. Emphasis is on increasing the uptake and impact of research output into the policy interface; this is achieved through hosting regular science policy workshops, publication of position papers targeted at policy makers, issuing statements in response to EU initiatives, and through an annual forum. It annually hosts approximately 15 workshops of interdisciplinary nature, and also holds an annual Forum. Since 2001, the Marine Board has published 10 position papers. The Marine Board was instrumental in (i) organizing EurOCEAN 2004 Conference (2004, Galway) and in drafting the Galway Declaration; (ii) convening the organizing committee for EurOCEAN 2007 conference (2007, Aberdeen) and drafting the resulting Declaration; (iii) preparing the Portuguese EU Presidency conference (2007, Lisbon) on the options to create a network of existing marine and maritime networks; (iv) maintaining the Aberdeen momentum, creating the Aberdeen+ Group.

 

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