Joining Forces Towards Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans

First JPI Oceans Conference

7 May 2015Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium

for Science and the ArtsRue Ducale 1, Brussels

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The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) is a coordinating and integrating platform, open to all EU Member States and Associated Countries.

While bringing together the interested Member States and Associated Countries JPI Oceans

aims to add value by:

• avoiding fragmentation and unnecessary duplication

• planning common and flexible initiatives

• facilitating cooperation and foresight

• establishing efficient mechanisms for interaction and knowledge transfer between the sci-

entific community, industry & services, and policy makers at high level in order to solve the

grand challenges more effectively.

The first JPI Oceans Conference

The first JPI Oceans conference is open to the marine and maritime science community, policy

makers, NGOs and industry representatives and network organisations.

The conference will present:

• The JPI Oceans Vision and Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda - Priorities for marine

and maritime research in Europe and perspectives for future joint activities.

• The JPI Oceans joint actions including the actions on ecological aspects of deep sea mining

and micro-plastics, the multi-use of infrastructure for monitoring in the North Sea and inter-

calibration for the EU Water Framework Directive.

• The outcomes of CSA Oceans, the EU FP7 Support Action aimed to facilitate the implemen-

tation of JPI Oceans in its startup phase.

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Programme

Registration and coffee

Welcome and introduction

• Caron Montgomery, Chair of JPI Oceans' Management Board - Head of Marine and Fisheries

Science, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK

Opening session

• Elke Sleurs, State Secretary for Science Policy, Belgium (tbc)

• Dilek Ayhan, State Secretary Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Norway

• Robert-Jan Smits, Director General, European Commission DG Research & Innovation

Going beyond the national level: Cooperation priorities of European countries in marine & maritime researchSession chair: Lourdes Armesto, Vice Chair of JPI Oceans' Management Board - Head, Technical Envi-

ronmental and Natural Resources Department, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain

• From Vision to Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

Kathrine Angell-Hansen, CSA Oceans Coordinator - Director JPI Oceans secretariat

• JPI Oceans Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda & Implementation Plan

Caron Montgomery, Chair of JPI Oceans' Management Board - Head of Marine and Fisheries

Science, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK

Coffee break

Implementing the European Research Area in marine & maritime researchSession chair: Gilles Lericolais, Executive Committee JPI Oceans - Director of European and Interna-

tional Affairs, Ifremer, France

• Flash presentations Pilot Actions:

1. Multi-use of infrastructures for monitoring in the North Sea

Jasper Dalhuisen, Ministry of Economic Affairs

2. Ecological aspects of micro-plastics in the marine environment

Joachim Harms, Project Management Jülich

3. Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining

Joachim Harms, Project Management Jülich

4. Intercalibration for the EU Water Framework Directive

David Cox, Programme Manager, Federal Science Policy, Belgium

• Flash presentations joint actions & new tools

Jacky Wood, Deputy-Director JPI Oceans secretariat

• Questions and answers

09:00-09:30

09:30-09:40

09:40-10:10

10:10-11:15

11:15-11:45

11:45-13:00

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Lunch

Panel session: Horizon scanning - Setting Joint Priorities for Future Marine & Mari-time ResearchSession Chair: Peter Herzig, Chair of JPI Oceans' Strategic Advisory Board - Executive Director, GEO-

MAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

• Jean-François Minster, Strategic Advisory Board JPI Oceans - Scientific Director, Total

• Christina Abilgaard, Management Board JPI Oceans - Department Director, Research Council of

Norway

• Niall McDonough, Strategic Advisory Board JPI Oceans - Executive Secretary, European Marine

Board

• Sigi Gruber, Head of the Unit for Marine Resources, European Commission DG Research and

Innovation

Coffee break

Panel session: Blue growth and jobsSession Chair: Emilio Fortunato Campana, JPI Oceans' Management Board - Director, Marine Technol-

ogy Research Institute, CNR, Italy

• François Duthoit, Chair, Waterborne Blue Growth Working Group

• John Murray, Chief Executive, Society of Maritime Industries

• Courtney Hough, Secretary, European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATiP)

• Eleni Marianou, Secretary General, Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR)

Closing remarks

• Caron Montgomery, Chair JPI Oceans Management Board - Head of Marine and Fisheries Sci-

ence, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK

• Manuel Barange, Vice Chair Strategic Advisory Board JPI Oceans - Deputy Chief Executive and

Director of Science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), UK (tbc)

• Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (tbc)

Reception

13:00-14:00

14:00-15:00

15:00-15:30

15:00-16:00

16:00-16:30

16:30-18:00

The CSA Oceans project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Pro-

gramme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement

no SCS2-GA-2012-314194-CSA Oceans