Dear EGU Expert,

We hope you are enjoying an energising start to the summer! This month’s Newsletter highlights the last call to complete the nomination for the Science Policy Award, an invitation for you to share science policy events on the meetings calendar on EGU website, and a contract opportunity by Wellcome on indigenous knowledge and global climate policy. It also shares the recent GeoTalks with Annegret Larsen and Adam Izdebski from the Biodiversity Task Force, and announces the European Ocean Pact.

If you have any further questions or comments about the policy opportunities that exist for scientists in Europe, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Best wishes,

Science for Policy Team

The Science for Policy Award initiated by EGU this year recognises researchers, knowledge brokers, and policymakers who have made a significant contribution to Europe’s science-policy interface at a local, national, or international level.

We would like to remind you that the nomination process is coming to a close. You only have a few days left to nominate a colleague, your team, or yourself, and get this important work recognised and rewarded!

The deadline to submit a nomination is 15 June 2025. More information about the nomination procedure is available here.

On EGU meetings calendar, we share science policy events alongside meetings, conferences, and workshops that may be of general interest to the geoscience community.

Are you interested in sharing an upcoming science policy event or opportunity? You can add it to the calendar by using our meeting submission form. This is an unmoderated community resource available on EGU website.

Do not forget to use the tag “Science policy event”!

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation, focused on using science to solve major global health challenges by funding research, influencing policy, leading advocacy campaigns, and building global partnerships.

Wellcome’s Climate and Health programme currently has a contract opportunity open for organisations and individuals to submit a proposal to, by 2 July 2025. The project will dive into the interconnection between Indigenous Peoples and their knowledge systems, climate change, and human health and wellbeing.

The chosen supplier is expected to develop at least two policy products aimed at informing multilateral institutions at the climate science–policy interface, namely the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

More details are available in the Request for Proposal document.

Although the EGU's Biodiversity Task Force has now concluded its official activities, the lessons learned from this experience continue to provide valuable insight into the science for policy process. Two members of the Task Force, Annegret Larsen, and Adam Izdebski, recently shared some of their experiences on the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog.

Annegret is a biogeomorphologist and quaternary scientist while Adam is an environmental historian and human ecologist. In their interviews, they talk about their experiences with the Task Force. They also share their insights regarding the policy implications of their respective research fields.

When asked about their advice for scientists looking to engage with policymakers, Annegret emphasises how crucial it is to find the right primary stakeholders, and Adam underlines the role of patience and communication skills.

If you are curious about their perspectives, you can read Annegret’s interview here, and Adam’s interview here.

Earlier this month, the European Commission adopted the European Ocean Pact, a comprehensive strategy to better protect the ocean, promote a thriving blue economy and support the well-being of people living in coastal areas.

Advancing ocean research, knowledge, skills and innovation is one of the six priorities of the Ocean Pact. Key actions include an ambitious EU Ocean Observation Initiative, supported by an Ocean Research and Innovation Strategy.

To meet the Pact’s targets, the Commission will present an Ocean Act by 2027, establish a high-level Ocean Board to steer implementation, and launch an EU Ocean Pact dashboard, providing a public, transparent and centralised platform to track progress towards its objectives.

If you are interested, you can get more information on the Pact here. There will be lots of opportunities to interact with the European Commission on these subjects in the future, so make sure you stay up to date with our future announcements on this!