The Gender and Diversity Board raises gender, early career, and other diversity awareness within the consortium. The Gender and Diversity Board is developing a Gender and Diversity Action Plan and advising the Steering Committee and Executive Board on its implementation.

The Gender and Diversity Board members are:

• Michele Barbier (Institute for Science and Ethics) – chair
• Sheila Heymans (European Marine Board, EMB)
• Dina Eparkhina (European Global Ocean Observing System, EuroGOOS)
• Rene Garello (IEEE France section)
• Raffaella Casotti (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn)
• Kieran Reilly (Irish Marine Institute)

The EuroSea Gender and Diversity Board has conducted a survey to evaluate the status of inclusion and diversity in the EuroSea consortium. Also, dedicated sessions were organized at the 2021 Annual Meeting to discuss these issues with the partners. A guest lecture was given by Britta Theges (Institute for Interdisciplinary Gender Research and Diversity, Kiel University of Applied Sciences). She presented a fascinating set of stories of women in oceanography, from being a symbol of bad luck, to breaking the science frontiers and barriers of preconceptions in the harsh backgrounds of ocean science. See this lecture below and on the EuroSea YouTube channel.