EMB and the Mission Ocean

The European Marine Board will actively promote and publicly support the Mission Ocean initiative. The EMB Secretariat will undertake the following actions in active support of the Mission. The aim of these actions is to help raise awareness about and engagement in the Mission, especially amongst EMB members, and to provide research input and recommendations to the objectives and enablers of the Mission. The expected impact is an increase in the engagement of our marine research performing members with the Mission Ocean, measurable through Charter endorsements and submitted actions.

The EMB Secretariat will:
1. Endorse the Mission Charter and communicate about this publicly;
2. Encourage Member Organizations and the wider EMB network to endorse the Mission Charter and submit actions;
3. Increase visibility of, and communicate about, the Mission Ocean via the EMB social media channels and in the weekly EMB newsletters;
4. Highlight links between the Mission Ocean objectives and enablers and EMB existing and upcoming activities, for instance:
4.1 Create a dedicated page on the EMB website to highlight the support for the Mission Ocean by both EMB and its Member Organizations;
4.2 Create an inventory of EMB Member Organization activities in support of the Mission Ocean based on publicly available information on the Mission Ocean website;
4.3 Showcase the Mission Ocean in all other relevant EMB activities, such as discussions, conferences (e.g. CommOcean, EurOCEAN), Brown Bag Lunches, the EMB Artist-in residence programme, etc.);
4.4 Submit separate Mission Ocean actions for each relevant EMB activity, to be made publicly visible on the Mission Ocean website; and
4.5 Include dedicated boxes in new EMB publications to make links to Mission objectives and enablers, and highlight Mission Ocean-specific future research and policy needs.
5. Engage with Mission Ocean supporting projects (e.g. PREP4Blue CSA, Lighthouses) to discuss how EMB and its Member Organizations could input relevant research results to the Mission;
6. Engage in Mission Ocean events as both speakers (when asked) and attendees;
7. Use the EMB Early Career Ocean Professional network to raise awareness of Mission Ocean to the younger generation by inviting a speaker from the European Commission to engage in one of the online ECOP Wednesdays marine science policy event series; and
8. Use the EMB Communication Panel to raise awareness of the Mission Ocean to the public and wider stakeholders in their externally-facing outreach and communication activities.