Pomerania Region in northern Poland is home to 2,2 million citizens, with its center of socio-economic gravity concentrated among the seaside metropolitan area (Tri-City). It is in this area, where one of the largest and most important academic and research hubs in Poland is located, consisting of many higher education and research institutions, including those from top 20 of Polish universities. It is also a workplace for more than 7000 researchers, conducting scientific explorations in almost every field of science. Pomorska Noc Naukowców (en. Pomeranian Researchers' Night - PRN) first organized on 29th September 2023, is success of the grassroots initiative of the Pomeranian scientific community. This annual event organized on last Friday of September is first of such scale within the region, and only third one in whole country. Main goal of PRN is to establish a greater impact on the social development of the region by popularizing science, bringing scientists closer to the public, showing how their work affects our everyday life, finally: encouraging children and youth to choose a scientific career in the future. Within the project “NightMission" we shall develop PRN in years 2024 and 2025 by bounding it with Researchers at Schools initiative. The common denominator of activities addressed to the public will be “European challenges”, presented through the prism of the everyday work of scientists in the region. The main goal of NightMission is to achieve enhanced engagement of Pomerania region citizens with European scale excellent research and research teams, within highly inclusive space of Researchers Night and during Researchers at Schools Initiative. Project will be implemented via meetings, classes, workshops and information campaigns, and shall consolidate two main messages: "science is shaping our everyday lives all the time" and "research is the answer to the challenges of the modern world".

With an overall aim to support the coherent implementation of the EU (European Union) Biodiversity Strategy (EUBS) 2030, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) post-2020 framework, as well as the EU Green Deal, MSP4BIO develops and demonstrates the ways in which knowledge-based MSP becomes a vehicle and a tool for the protection and recovery of ecosystems. Specifically, MSP4BIO will develop an integrated flexible socio-ecological management to cope with a rapidly changing environment for coastal, offshore, and deep-sea ecosystems and validate its concrete applicability in 6 test sites in 5 European Sea Basins. The management relies on improved systemic biodiversity prioritization criteria for MPAs and EBSAs, based on the best available scientific knowledge on biodiversity attributes, and linking spatial ecological features (including migratory ones) with socio-economic considerations. MSP4BIO uses a participatory approach to co-develop ecosystem services trade-off scenarios to prioritize the areas and assess the suitability of spatial and strategic management measures from the ecological and socio-economic perspectives. The approach integrates the criteria and objectives of relevant maritime and biodiversity policies as well as the EUBS 2030 to ensure coherent policy implementation. As such, the project will develop and improve approaches, methods, and tools to feed scientific knowledge, making it of direct use to planners and MPA managers, while producing site-specific results informing site-specific, and broader policy processes and decisions. The project builds on and integrate existing knowledge and results from multiple origins, and ensures effective collaboration with relevant projects and initiatives to fill present gaps on marine biodiversity, speeding up the scientific brake while paving pave the way for effective biodiversity management.

As a project, BlueActionBANOS (BAB) mission is firmly aligned with the EU’s "Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030" initiative and the European Green Deal and aims to deliver measurable contributions toward biodiversity conservation, pollution reduction, and the transition to a climate-neutral blue economy. The overarching objective of BlueActionBANOS (BAB) is to facilitate the successful transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the Mission Ocean, where solutions piloted in the early stages are scaled up and deployed across a broader spectrum within the Baltic and North Sea Lighthouse Area. To that end, BAB aims to mobilise and provide practical and easily accessible support to a diverse set of established or emerging communities of actors to implement innovative and impactful actions and measures to restore our ocean, seas and waters. BAB will achieve this by providing targeted financial assistance, technical guidance, and strategic knowledge-sharing, equipping communities with the tools and resources they need to address complex environmental challenges and drive sustainable transformation at local, regional, and national levels.