On 31 March 2026, the EOV Network has hosted an online workshop to facilitate knowledge exchange and alignment of activities of the three sister projects. Over forty participants took part in the workshop. The EOV Network workshop was explicitly designed as a practice‑to‑policy bridge, bringing together BioEcoOcean, BioGeoSea and ObsSea4Clim to:

• Map what is already being done across projects and how this contributes to EU ambitions – “existing actions”
• Identify joint, feasible actions within the current project lifetimes
• Articulate a “wishlist” of policy and governance support required to unlock integration and operationalisation in practice.

The workshop featured an extensive discussion on policy recommendations targeting the EU Ocean Pact and Ocean Eye initiative. The discussion was organized in three rounds of breakout groups to address actions already underway in the sister projects; concrete joint activities to enhance collaboration and impact, and the translation of the barriers identified into policy-relevant recommendations.

The results of the workshop were further discussed at the Clustering Event Nr 2. Full overview of the points discussed and outcomes of the events is available in our Deliverable D6.3.