Future Forum Ocean
The Future Forum Ocean (FFO) is a joint body of the marine research community in Germany with the aim of discussing and developing forward-looking overarching scientific and research strategy issues in this field as a forum.
Against the background of the disciplinary range of tasks and functions of the actors in German marine research, the FFO works on overarching and future issues. These should have a high social relevance in relation to the ocean and the coastal sea, as well as address basic and applied research priorities in Germany and Europe.
The science-driven work of the FFO makes it easier to jointly and visibly represent the interests of marine research in Germany to national decision-makers, the European Union and the public. The FFO actively contributes the resulting perspectives to the prioritisation and design of funding programmes and helps to coordinate German contributions to international activities.
The FFO is supported by the breadth of German marine research and staffed by elected, independent experts with temporary mandates to develop creative ideas and contribute interdisciplinary expertise.
The members of the FFO have been appointed by over twenty organisations, including universities, authorities, research institutes and museums, as representatives of the German marine research community. They represent the outstanding expertise and broad diversity of German marine research, both scientifically and personally.
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How does the Future Forum work?
The Future Forum Ocean aims at a broad range of strategic activities related to ocean and coastal research.
The members of the Future Forum Ocean propose thematic focal points, which are prioritised in consultation with all members. From these, interdisciplinary working groups develop concrete products.
The Future Forum Ocean deals with the following tasks in the form of discussions, comments, strategy papers or memoranda:
- Integrative future topics of marine research
- Basic and applied issues of interdisciplinary marine research with a focus on strategic and funding policy perspectives in marine research.
- Strategic orientation and structure of German marine research
- Intensification of cooperation within German marine research including the development of joint research activities
- Intensification of cooperation within European and international marine research
WORKING FIELDS
Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research
German Ocean Science Opportunities (GOSO)
Attractiveness and prospects of academic careers in the marine sciences (ECR_Ocean)
Research infrastructure for observing the sea: needs and visions (MareObs4all)
Perspectives of the MARE:N programme
Completed
German research fleet
Members
Alumni 2020-2022
- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann MARUM Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften und Fachbereich Geowissenschaften an der Uni Bremen
- Prof. Dr. Julia Gottschalk Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Hillebrand Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg und Helmholtz Institut für Funktionelle Marine Biodiversität
- Prof. Dr. Jochem Marotzke Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
- Dr. Hanieh Saeedi Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
- Prof. Dr. Torsten Schlurmann Forschungszentrum Küste, Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
- Prof. Dr. Karen Wiltshire Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Zielinski Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
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