The Scientific Council met via videoconference on 15 October.

Members discussed and express their opinions on the following topics:

• The process for setting up the Eolien en Mer SIG studies,
• Elections for the Chair and Deputy Chair,
• Evaluation of responses to the Call for Proposals for the acquisition of acoustic data on bats,
• Evaluation of responses to the Call for Proposals for the development of a new method for modelling food webs,
• 2026 annual report on the monitoring of breeding gulls on the Caux cliffs,
• Interim report on the study of bat transits at sea,
• Proposal to extend terrestrial bat recordings for 2027–2030,
• Final report on the study of plankton identification using environmental DNA,
• Proposal for the continuation of the study monitoring the diet of seals using metabarcoding.