Marine Board Vision Groups

In order to best support the policy making process and to be at the forefront of foresight initiatives in the marine research domain, the Marine Board takes the responsibility to set-up Vision Groups of a key European experts to investigate crucial scientific issues of strategic importance with the aim of developing a short Vision Document. The Vision Group deliverable is a short and clear Vision Document with explicit figures and images, published in a format to be widely distributed among groups of stakeholders (decision makers, civil society, scientists).

Ongoing Vision Groups:

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  • Marine Board Vision Group on Marine Biodiversity will prepare a vision document to highlight recent achievements across marine biodiversity research, explore the urgent remaining scientific questions and suggest new research and management activities to address them taking into account the current EU policy framework and international agreements and conventions... Read more here

Published Vision Documents:

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  • Marine Board Vision Document 2 Marine Renewable Energy - Research Challenges and Opportunities for a New Energy Era in Europe (September 2010) -  Marine Renewable Energy can offer promissing rewards to Europe in terms of energy supply and security, job creation, and the opportunity to reduce our greenhouse gas emmissions. Marine Board Vision Document 2 highlights the need for sustained research to support the development of viable technologies, and to develop appropriate environmental monitoring protocoles ... Read more here 
    Download Vision Document 2 here 

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  • Marine Board - EuroGOOS Vision Document on EMODNET (September 2008) - This Vision Document calls for the establishment of an end-to-end, integrated and inter-operable network of systems of European marine observation and data communications, management and delivery systems, supported by a comprehensive user-oriented toolkit to enable implementation of the Integrated Maritime Policy for Europe ... Read more here 
    Download Vision Document 1 here