Summer School: Interdisciplinary Ocean Transformation

EuroMarine’s mission is to support the identification and initial development of important emerging scientific topics or issues and associated methodologies in marine sciences, as well as to foster new services relevant to the marine scientific community. EuroMarine in cooperation with their OYSTER WG have decided to provide funding to carry out the Training Workshop for ECRs “Interdisciplinary Ocean Transformation”.
Challenges in management and conservation of the seas increasingly call for interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Early career researchers (ECRs) are the next generation of marine scientists, and therefore have an important role to play in solving complex ocean challenges. Thus, it is important that marine scientists are equipped with interdisciplinary skills and cross-institutional networks in the early stages of their career. However, training in interdisciplinary methods and network building are rarely provided in a formal setting.
The Training Workshop for ECRs on Interdisciplinary Ocean Transformation will support ECRs to develop interdisciplinary skills over five days using a combination of short lectures and hands-on activities. The overarching goal of the proposed workshop is to provide interdisciplinary frameworks and facilitate cross-institutional collaborations and to provide ECRs with opportunities to practice these new skills. ECRs will use this training to develop new and innovative science proposals in the context of the Sustainable Development Goal 14 and the EU Mission to Restore Ocean and Waters. The participants of the Workshop will learn to enhance the impact of their research beyond their disciplinary expertise by addressing complex ocean challenges through collaborative projects.
The activities of the Workshop are explicitly designed to teach participants skills to create, fund and manage innovative and interdisciplinary solutions to ocean challenges. Through the proposed activities, participants learn to design interdisciplinary science that includes gender and diversity dimensions, promotes FAIR and open science, and effectively communicates project results to stakeholders.
The programme includes interactive activities with professionals who have a direct impact in management and societal education beyond fundamental marine sciences. An expert in science communication will teach the participants how to make their research more relevant to broader audiences. A research coordinator from an international management organization will teach which kind of research is needed to have an impact with managers and policymakers. Through interactive and participatory activities, we will create a “network of networks” among members of different network organizations.
This training workshop has been jointly funded by OYSTER and EuroMarine and has received co-funding from ICES.
To attend this Summer School, applications must be submitted before the 28th of February 2023. For more information, please follow this link: https://euromarinenetwork.eu/activities/InterDis/.