To help you as you finalise your abstract, we would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the objectives of the conference, and what will interest the audience most.

• CommOCEAN is primarily a communications conference and all delegates are attending to improve, or learn new, communications skills and techniques.
• Most will be working in some kind of ocean science institute or organisation and already understand the broad challenges facing the ocean.
• All are keen to know about the results or impact of communications activities, so please include as much evaluation information as you can.

We welcome fascinating abstracts to make the CommOCEAN conference in 2022 a successful edition once again! We are looking for workshop conveners, presenters and exhibitors (see detailed information in the link). You can submit your abstract by 15 June 2022 via this website:

Attention: submitting an abstract does not imply that you will automatically register your participation to the conference. To register follow this link.

To keep the core of CommOCEAN conferences, the organizing committee has decided to focus the conference programme as in person event. But considering the successful 2020 online edition and the international audience, a reduced online programme will be organised (3h dedicated programme around noon CET via Zoom + web streaming of plenary sessions). Be aware of potential highly competitive selection process for the online session.

To help you as you finalise your abstract, we would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the objectives of the conference, and what will interest the audience most.

• CommOCEAN is primarily a communications conference and all delegates are attending to improve, or learn new, communications skills and techniques.
• Most will be working in some kind of ocean science institute or organisation and already understand the broad challenges facing the ocean.
• All are keen to know about the results or impact of communications activities, so please include as much evaluation information as you can.

Details of your presentation will be made available on the CommOCEAN website (https://commocean.org/) and on YouTube. You will be notified closer to the time which day and time has been allocated for your workshop or presentation

1. Workshop sessions (in person)

2. Oral Presentations (online or in person)

3. Online visual + 1 min video

1. Workshop sessions (in person):

We welcome submissions for organizing 1 hour long hands-on sessions, trainings or discussions, for up to 12 participants in person (in Sète, France). We are looking for workshop type sessions focused on a target audience of marine scientists and communicators who want to be trained in science communication skills.

We expect sessions dedicated to such topics as:

• How to build a positive message over the Ocean, to what audience?
• How to facilitate, train or incentivize scientists on science communication?
• How to build a communication strategy for your organization?
• How to pull resources for science communication?
• How to include wisely new technologies and approaches?
• How to communicate during emergencies?
• How to engage with (traditional) press & media?
• Etc.

 2. Oral Presentations (online or in person):

We are seeking abstract submissions for an oral presentation (online or in person: in Sète, France) within the following categories:

Communications Skills Building Programme
Presentations should provide those who are new to communications with new skills or examples of effective communications in practice, which they can apply to their own activity.

Advanced Communicators Programme
Presentations should provide experienced communicators with new ways of working or thinking, introduce new techniques or provide inspiration through examples of highly effective campaigns.

Marine Science Session
CommOCEAN is primarily a science communication conference, but we welcome abstract submissions from researchers about their current marine science research, especially if they are able to show the ways it is being communicated. This could be the perfect opportunity to test a presentation on a public audience. We will be particularly interested to see presentations delivered in novel ways.

3. Online visual + 1 min video:

Visuals presenting (marine) science communication activities and videos will be available to view throughout the conference in an online gallery (“Show and Tell” exhibition - https://commocean.org/online-exhibition). These visuals could be posters, videos, websites, apps, etc. We require a 1-minute video presenting your activity presented at the “Show and Tell” exhibition. The entries should be either:

• An example of a public or stakeholder facing entry, presenting an area of research or a campaign.
• An entry showing the evaluation of a communications campaign containing information about what was done, and how effective it was.

There will be an award for the best entry, as voted by the conference delegates. The visual entries and presenting videos need to be provided by 21 November 2022