Support knowledge sharing about health, evolution and functioning of Mediterranean basin’s marine and coastal ecosystems with researchers, public policy makers and private sector to ensure the preservation of the basin’s resources, develop sustainable activities, control pressures and anticipate the responses to global change. Strengthen the open access to high-quality data both to create a common understanding of Mediterranean challenges and to support smart and innovative data applications in marinerelated economic activities. The goal calls to support in parallel the development of a Mediterranean observing system of systems to enable the collection of high-quality data on marine and coastal environments (see Priority 4).

peer-reviewed