SIMSEA Meta-Network Meeting: Strengthening Collaboration Across Marginal Seas

The SIMSEA Meta-Network Meeting, organized jointly by SIMSEA and Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with the Future Earth Meta-Network Initiative and supported by Future Earth Coasts, will take place in Zhuhai on 17–18 October 2025, with the main theme “Developing a Meta-Network (Network of Networks) for enhancing the progress of SDGs in marginal seas and coastal areas”. The meeting program is available here.

The SIMSEA Meta-Network Meeting will feature progress reports and plans on working group activities highlighting their priorities and challenges, thematic working group dialogues, planning sessions for integrative pathways and collaboration, and interactive synthesis workshops to define actionable priorities and implementation strategies.

The meeting will be held in a hybrid format. If you would like to attend online, please register here. You will be contacted with a link for online participation.

Stay tuned for news on the meeting outcomes. We hope this gathering will strengthen regional collaboration through Meta-Network development, advance comprehensive multi-scale monitoring frameworks, and catalyze interdisciplinary joint efforts for realizing sustainable and resilient socio-ecological systems across East and Southeast Asia.

Date Posted: 09 October 2025