Global knowledge network for ocean science
ICES/PISCES member countries, coastal communities
Support, leverage ICES/PICES members' activities for the Ocean Decade
SMARTNET will establish a global knowledge network (GKN) for ocean science by strengthening and expanding the collaboration of ICES/PICES and partner organizations.
It will support and leverage ICES/PICES member countries’ activities related to the Ocean Decade, by emphasizing areas of mutual research interest including climate change, fisheries and ecosystem-based management, social, ecological and environmental dynamics of marine systems, coastal communities and human dimensions, and communication and capacity development.
It also incorporates strategies to facilitate the Ocean Decade’s cross-cutting inclusivity themes relating to gender equality, early career engagement, and involvement of indigenous communities and developing nations in the planning and implementation of joint activit