EMD 2025 announcement poster

Call for workshops for the European Maritime Days 2025

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The Call for workshops for the EMD 2025 in Cork, Ireland,  is now open!

The European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual two-day event during which Europe’s maritime community meet to network, discuss and outline joint action on maritime affairs and sustainable blue economy.

Stakeholders – businesses, science, government, NGOs – are involved in the EMD in many ways. Thematic workshops organised by maritime stakeholders are at the core of the conference. Workshop organisers design, organise and manage their own sessions. Each workshop lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Workshop organisers design and manage their own workshop.

At the EMD 2025, up to 20 high-quality workshops will be selected (with several workshops running in parallel) under the following themes:

  • Coastal communities (challenges and opportunities)
  • Maritime security and surveillance.
  • Blue energy (marine renewable energy, alternative fuels, energy transition, decarbonisation, desalination, port adaptation etc.)
  • Enablers (marine research, innovation, technology, observation, blue skills, MSP, digitalisation, investment etc.)
  • Maritime cooperation (regional, sea-basins, Civil Society, stakeholder relations etc.)
  • Food security (blue biotechnology, aquaculture, fisheries, algae, biodiversity etc.)

All that is necessary is to fill in this form and submit your online application before 30 December 2024 at 17:00 CET.

The EMD is the place where ‘Ocean Leaders Meet’. It provides an engaging and completely interactive experience to catch up on the current state of play on a broad range of issues concerning the blue economy and the marine environment and to discuss ways of moving forward. It features a large number of inspirational speakers, thematic sessions, stakeholder workshops and pitch sessions organised by stakeholders and the European Commission. The EMD targets professionals from businesses, governments, public institutions, NGOs and academia as well as EU citizens interested in the sea.

European Maritime Day 2024 will take place in Cork, Ireland on 21 – 23 May 2025.

For more information, visit the EMD event website