The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) coordinates the European funded COST Action OceanGov (Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science), chaired by Anna-Katharina Hornidge.

It aims to bring together scientists, policy-makers and civil society representatives from 26 EU Member States to create and coordinates a research network for inter- and transdisciplinary research on ocean governance in the EU.

CEI-IUL integrates this project as a partner in the research group of "Land-Sea Interactions", with participation of the researcher Cátia Miriam Costa. Some critical questions that influence the thematic focus of this working group are: Which interdependencies and interactions are taking place at the interphase land-sea? How are they (unidirectional or by-directional)? What are the pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions? How important is the alignment between marine and terrestrial planning? To what extent the policy guidance, plans and decisions are consistent? What are the interactions in the social, ecological and economic realms? What are the fundamental differences between the various ecological, technological, and social subsystems? How are they reflected and need to be reflected within the resulting governance systems? And what does this imply for joint governance?

Governing our oceanic systems, seas, coastlines and marine resources sustainably, and through a multi-scalar and cross-sectoral approach remains one of the key environmental and development challenges of the 21st century. The proposed COST Action initiative, was created to address the urgent need for an integrated and interactive approach to managing Europe's marine and coastal spaces. It addresses the pressing question of how to redress institutional fragmentation by strengthening a regionally integrated perspective on sustainability challenges which was previously interpreted through an explicitly local or global lens.

The network aims to establish an integrative vision, and a series of approaches that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans, seas and coastlines within regional waters, and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

The network will initiate participatory dialogue with policy-making and civil society actors, providing a transdisciplinary platform - beyond academia - improving the knowledge base and strengthening science-practice networks which shape ocean and coastal governance for  sustainability in Europe and beyond.

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