EFARO secretariat
legal and mailing address:
PO Box 68
1970 AB IJmuiden
Netherlands
+31 (0)317 487 218
The EFARO board is yearly elected from its membership, during the General Assembly.
The current board consists of:
Dr. Piotr Margonski
President (NMFRI, Poland)
Dr. Bard Wathne Tveiten
Vice-president (SINTEF, Norway)
Dr. David Righton
Atlantic representative (CEFAS, United Kingdom)
Dr. Sasa Raicevich
Mediterranean representative (ISPRA, Italy)
Dr. Noel Holmgren
Baltic representative (SLU, Sweden)
Dr. Giovanna Marino
Aquaculture representative (ISPRA, Italy)
Luc van Hoof
Executive secretary
Sarah Smith
Science officer and treasurer
Follow up on earlier Webinar and WG on NbS, on April 19th 2024 Webinar on Criteria for NbS
Online, EFARO Members only.
EFARO will organize a WG AQUA Webinar to kick-off the new WG AQUA. Date: May 10th, 2024.
Online, EFARO Members only.
Date: May 28-29th, 2024.
Brussels, EFARO Members only.
Currently there is a wide ranging discussion on the inclusion of social data in fisheries and aquaculture management, both affecting data collection programmes and the analysis of policy impact.
Date: December 8th, 2023
Online, open event.
Date: June 30th, 2023.
Online, EFARO Members only.
The Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund launched a blue bioeconomy research agenda as a result of a foresight implemented in 2022. The foresight was part of Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund’s mission of strengthening Europe’s position in the blue bioeconomy, working with facilitators from EFARO.
A publication on current scientific knowledge gaps.
A research gap and policy brief.
In 2022 EFARO published a scientific paper on Marine Nature-Based Solutions in order to facilitate a critical debate about the prospects
and pitfalls related to the operationalisation of marine NbS in an EU context, providing an analysis of core definitions, potential categories of marine NbS and a suite of case studies. Here
you will find an extended summary of this paper.
Currently there is a wide ranging discussion on the inclusion of social data in fisheries and aquaculture management, both affecting data collection programmes and the analysis of policy impact.
Date: Upcoming in 2023
Online, open event.
Date: June 30th, 2023.
Online, EFARO Members only.
The Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund launched a blue bioeconomy research agenda as a result of a foresight implemented in 2022. The foresight was part of Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund’s mission of strengthening Europe’s position in the blue bioeconomy, working with facilitators from EFARO.
A publication on current scientific knowledge gaps.
A research gap and policy brief.
In 2022 EFARO published a scientific paper on Marine Nature-Based Solutions in order to facilitate a critical debate about the prospects
and pitfalls related to the operationalisation of marine NbS in an EU context, providing an analysis of core definitions, potential categories of marine NbS and a suite of case studies. Here
you will find an extended summary of this paper.
For further information, please contact efaro@wur.nl.
See here.
15 May 2019
Brussels, Belgium
Missed the EFARO Seminar on the 15th of May?
Click here for an impression of the day and the main conclusions.