Mission Oceans-02 and 03: offering expertise in marine microbiome analysis and socio-ecological assessment of fisheries and MPAs

The Marine Research Centre of the University of Vigo offers the following expertise for contributing as a partner to the calls HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-01 and HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-02:

• experience with Galician fisheries systems and communities, where we have years of experience in studying climate risks, vulnerability and resilience of fishing practices and fishers wellbeing.

• experience with conceptual frameworks on adaptatoin and resilience for marine systems, including fisheries and Marine protected Areas.

• experience with social survey analysis, stakeholder participation and co-creation, inclusion of LEK and Local Knowledge on management tools, and applying the gender perspective in fisheries research;

• we have some tools already designed and tested for MPA social-ecological vulnerability, conservation and restoration climate effectiveness; socio-ecological risk assessments; fishwrie ssustainability indices, including experience in Galicia (NW Atlantic) and elsewhere.

• omics and functional analysis of marine organisms

• host–microbiome interactions

• stress and resilience indicators

• AI applied to omics and functional inference