Funders Forum EU Ocean Days 2026
Mon, Mar 02
|Royal Library of Belgium
A senior-level, invitation-only dialogue focused on aligning priorities, risk perspectives, and roles across philanthropy, public institutions, science, and finance. By building shared understanding before capital moves, it supports more coordinated, durable, and scalable approaches to ocean-related
TIME & LOCATION
Mar 02, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts 28, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
ABOUT THE EVENT
Tentative Agenda (tbc.)
Opening and framing (short framing speeches): Regional priorities and opportunity spaces: Baltic / North Sea and Med / Atlantic
What are the key environmental, economic, and resilience priorities in each region? (HAV, Kestutis (DG MARE)
Where are current funding and investment efforts concentrated? (Blue Invest, EU Commission, Foundation)
What will the focus for investment coordinated across types of capitals be as we move into 2027? (Indy Johar, EU Commission, Private Capital and Foundation) What are the key opportunities for different types of capital across matched funding, missing-middle funding, stacked funding, and portfolio funding? E.g. Co-investment syndication models, portfolio guarantees etc?
