The One Ocean Science Congress (OOSC) and the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, will take place from 3 to 13 June 2025 in Nice, France. The conference will bring together governments, scientific institutions, civil society, and industry to advance progress on Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water.
The Mission Ocean and Waters community will be present throughout the events, highlighting key projects and inviting stakeholders to endorse the Mission Charter, a joint commitment to the restoration of our ocean and waters by 2030.
Key Mission Ocean and Waters events at OOSC and UNOC3
Tuesday 3 June
- 09:00–10:00 | Opening Session, OOSC | Keynote by John Bell, Deputy Mission Manager and Director of Healthy Planet, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
- 10:55–12:05 | Green Zone - The Whale, UNOC3 | The Mission Ocean project OTTERS participates in “Session 1: Citizen science, ocean digitalization and capacity development projects” with the panel “How Citizen Science Empowers Water Stewardship: Stories from the EU Mission Ocean OTTERS project” - INSPIRE Area
- 12:45–13:45 | Room 4, OOSC | Empowering the Blue Economy: Education, research and innovation for a sustainable ocean future
- 16:40-16:50 | Room 4, OOSC | The Mission Ocean project Edito-Model Lab participates in “Marine protection and human well-being” with the panel “European Digital Twin Ocean Application on Habitat Suitability Mapping for the Restoration and Conservation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems”
- 17:30–18:30 | Room 1, OOSC | On a Mission to restore the Ocean and Waters – Towards the deployment at scale of innovative solutions for Ocean restoration and resilience of coastal communities
Wednesday 4 June
- 09:00–10:00 | Room 4, OOSC | Funding Research at Multi-Levels – Supporting the objectives of the Ocean Decade
- 12:45–13:45 | Room 2, OOSC | Marine Knowledge at Our Fingertips – Designing digital twins of the ocean
Thursday 5 June
- 16:00–17:00 | The Whale, UNOC3 | How to monitor the Ocean? with MODELS & Training EDITO Model Lab - from model development to what if scenarios on the digital twin of the ocean at the European Digital Ocean Pavilion – INSPIRE Area
- 16:10–16:20 | Room 7, OOSC | The Mission Ocean project INSPIRE participates in Plastic pollution: Impacts, fate, and innovations with the session Flowing from land to sea: developing innovative strategies for detection, prevention and collection of land-based plastic waste in European rivers
- 17:00–17:10 | Room 1, OOSC | The Coordination and Support Action BlueMissionAA participates in Restoration of marine ecosystems with the session “Integrating PESTEL and Theory of Change for scalable Marine Ecosystem Restoration and Governance”
Friday 6 June
- 10:00–11:00 | Green Zone - The Whale, UNOC3 | Mediterranean in Action – BlueMissionMed event, participating Mission Ocean projects SEACURE, RHE-MEDiation, REMEDIES, SeaClear2.0, INSPIRE, BlueLights, and Tidal Arts.
- 10:30–12:00 | Room 2, OOSC | Edito-Model Lab participates in “Digital twins of the ocean to explore scenarios, their outcomes and impacts, and support decision”
- Green Zone - The Whale, UNOC3 | The Mission Ocean projects BluemissionAA, CLIMAREST, and A-AAGORA will have presentations at the European Digital Ocean Pavilion
Monday 9 June
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15:00–18:50 | Green Zone, UNOC3 - Webstreamed | EU takes action - The EU & policies at the European Digital Ocean Pavilion - INSPIRE Area
- 16:00–16:25 | Framing EU action: The EU Ocean Pact - Pavel Misiga speaks in the panel "The EU Ocean Pact and Research & Innovation"
- 17:50–18:35 | Taking action with the European Digital Twin Ocean - This session includes the launch of the Mission Ocean project EDITO-2
Tuesday 10 June
- 08:45–10:00 | Room 1, UNOC3 | Advancing SDG14.4 through AI and automatic catch registration – Hosted by Norway & SINTEF
- 14:00–15:55 | Green Zone, UNOC3 | Union for the Mediterranean – Charting the Path towards a Sustainable Blue Economy: The Mediterranean Leading the Way
- 17:30 | Room1, Blue Zone, UNOC3 | Scaling up solutions for a plastic-free Mediterranean
Wednesday 11 June
- Morning | Blue Zone, UNOC3 | BlueMissionMed launched the Report on the BluePanda, a depollution roadmap
- 12:15–13:30 | Room 1, Blue Zone, UNOC3 | Conference: Africa–Mediterranean–Europe Cooperation (AMEC) – co-hosted by BlueMissionMed
- 13:00–15:00 | RV Meteor, Blue Zone, UNOC3 | Marine Protected Areas Community Network workshop - Mission Ocean projects BioProtect, Blue Connect, BLUE4ALL, PHAROS and PROTECT BALTIC
- 14:00–15:00 | Virtual Side event, UNOC3 | BlueMissionAA: Aligning Ocean Research with Societal and Planetary needs
- 15:45–17:00 | Room 1, Blue Zone, UNOC3 | BlueMissionMed: Sharing Effective Lessons and Case Studies in the Mediterranean: From Regional to Global
- 17:00–18:30 | Hotel Mama Shelter, UNOC3 | The Mission Ocean project C-FAARER organises the event Ocean Reels & Real Talk
Thursday 12 June
- 14:00–16:00 | Virtual Side event, UNOC3 | Mission Ocean projects Mr.Goodfish3.0 and VeriFish organise the session Can We Still Eat Seafood? Adopting Responsible Consumption and Production of Seafood, Freshwater and Aquaculture Products to Protect Marine Biodiversity
Friday 13 June
- 11:00–12:30 | Virtual Side event, UNOC3 | Mission Ocean project INSPIRE organises the session Tackling riverine and estuarine plastic pollution for a cleaner ocean
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15:00–16:45 | Room 1, The Whale, UNOC3 | Youth takes action & EDITO-Model Lab Hackathon launch at the European Digital Ocean Pavilion – INSPIRE Area.
Additional highlights
- The Coordination and Support Action BlueMissionMed will be featured at the exhibition pavilion Beyond Borders: Ocean Futures, Learning and Protecting Together (La Balaine), taking place from 2–13 June. Their partners are contributing to multiple events found on their website.
- The Mission Ocean project Edito-Model Lab is participating with a poster titled “Digital Twins for Enhancing Coastal Resilience Through Nature-Based Solutions.”
- The Mission Ocean project Mr.Goodfish3.0 is showcasing a poster titled “Co-creating Sustainable Seafood Solutions”. Additionally, the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI)—a partner in Mr.Goodfish3.0—will hold an in-person Blue Zone event 10 June 2025 (15:45-17:00 - Room 2, Blue Zone) supported by the Cyprus UN Delegation, to present EONIOS (the first resident swarm of autonomous underwater vehicles with docking stations in nature-based reefs).
- The Mission Ocean project NETTAGPlus is showcasing two posters: “Towards a Cleaner Fishing Practice and Reducing the Environmental Impact of Lost Fishing Gear” and “Empowering Fishers to Tackle Marine Pollution: NETTAG+ Solutions.”
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