Inauguration of the Marine Board offices at the InnoOcean site (from left to right): Jan Mees (VLIZ, Marine Board vice-Chair), Kathrine Angell-Hansen (DG MARE), Rudy Herman (EWI - Flemish Government), John Marks (ESF), Niamh Connolly (Marine Board), Koen Verlaeckt (Flemish Department of Foreign Affairs), Lars Horn (Marine Board Chair), Jean-François Minster (Total S.A.) Photo: Misjel Decleer
The Official Inauguration of the Marine Board Secretariat’s new facilities at the InnovOcean site in Ostend (14 May 2008) marked an important step towards strengthening links and improving interactions with other key marine research networks and institutions and relevant policy groups, some of which are located at the InnovOcean site or have representation in Brussels.
The InnovOcean site is becoming an expanding node of synergies housing the Flemish Institute for the Sea (VLIZ), UNESCO’s IOC Project Office for IODE, and the Coordination Centre for Integrated Zone Management of the Province of West Flanders.
The inauguration preceded the 1st Marine Board Forum, organised in the new facilities at the InnovOcean site.
View of the InnovOcean site, Ostend Belgium. InnovOcean occupies ancient fishermen ware houses and faces the historical centre of Ostend and the port.
ESF provides the scientific, administrative and technical secretariat for COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).