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To recover and build resilience in the Baltic Sea, regional actors emphasize adaptive science and coordinated governance. A joint statement, destined for the Our Baltic Ministerial Conference, calls for stronger collaboration to efficiently allocate resources and avoid duplicated efforts. Key priorities include investing in long-term science, coordination, and science-policy integration. Strengthening research capacity through collaboration between ICES, HELCOM, national institutes, universities, and projects is also crucial. The statement also promotes utilizing advanced tools like the Digital Twin of the Ocean and integrated ecosystem assessments to translate knowledge into operational action and improve ecosystem management.
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- Coordination enhancement:Â encouraging a stronger collaboration among regional actor to efficiently allocate resources and avoid duplicating efforts.
- Science adaptation: focusing on adapting scientific research to rapidly changing environmental conditions, economic realities, and policy landscapes, with an emphasis on integrating long-term science and policy actions.
- Deployment of advanced tools:Â promoting the use of new tools such as the Digital Twin of the Ocean and integrated ecosystem assessments to improve ecosystem management.
Participants concluded with a joint statement, which will be presented at the Our Baltic Ministerial Conference on 30 September in Stockholm, Sweden. It stresses that adaptive science, combined with coordinated governance across sectors, is needed to translate knowledge into operational action for the recovery and resilience of the Baltic Sea. Priorities include:
- ensuring long-term resources and investment in science, coordination and science–policy integration
- building research capacity through stronger collaboration among ICES, the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), national institutes, universities and projects
- operationalising new tools such as the Digital Twin of the Ocean, integrated ecosystem assessments and the ICES Framework for Ecosystem-Informed Science and Advice (FEISA)
