17th-19th September, 2025, Ostend, Belgium
EMSEA annual conference will take place in Ostend, Belgium, 17-19 September 2025. This year’s event is a special occasion as the conference is co-organized with esteemed partners who have been instrumental in advancing ocean literacy across Europe: Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), one of the hosts of EMSEA and initiator of the very first Conference on Ocean Literacy in Europe, EMODNET, leading the European Atlas of the Seas and the EU4Ocean Platform in uniting organizations to promote ocean literacy, and EUROGOOS, a key player in ocean data and literacy initiatives.
The EMSEA 2025 confernece is endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Activity.