Successful Application: Scoping Marine Workshop within the VW Profile "Exploration"From Ocean Exploration to Societal Action: Perspectives on interdisciplinary collaboration for the UN Decade of Oceans

14 March 2023, by CGG

Photo: VolkswagenStiftung

Upcoming Scoping Workshop within the VW-Profile "Exploration"

From Ocean Exploration to Societal Action: Enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration for the UN Decade of Oceans.

The global threat of the world’s oceans becomes increasingly tangible. Within the ongoing UN Ocean Decade (2021-2030), the workshop assembles 30 marine researchers from the natural and the social sciences to develop cross-disciplinary transformative research for the protection and sustainable use of the ocean in the Anthropocene. We bring together established marine experts to profile the state and future of German marine research along three key issues: a) empirical methods, b) marine science policy, and c) collaborative research. The workshop concludes with a joint position paper presenting strategies for future interdisciplinary marine collaboration.

Date: 7-9th of June 2023

Place: X-Planatorium Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany

Principal Investigator: Tanja Bogusz

Further Investigators:
Helmut Hillebrand, Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIMBF) University of Oldenburg; Moritz Holtappels, Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research (AWI) Bremerhaven; Gesche Krause, AWI Bremerhaven; Achim Schlüter, Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) Bremen;
Thorsten Schlurmann, German Marine Research Consortium and University of Hannover

Amount granted: 29,400 EUR