Brief Description of the Scientific Area: Climate change, economic and population dynamics in coastal regions require continuous social, economic, and technical adaptation measures, with the ongoing involvement of relevant stakeholders. Ideally, a knowledge and innovation ecosystem will emerge, drawn from universities, non-university institutions, specialized authorities, associations of all kinds, clubs, businesses, and civil society, in order to be able to tackle future challenges with broad consensus. The overarching goals of such an ecosystem include (1) securing the coasts in the sense of public services, (2) maintaining and achieving a good ecological status of the environment and our residential areas, and (3) maintaining and increasing the attractiveness of the coasts as living and economic areas. A scientific area that functions as a knowledge and innovation ecosystem for “coastal engineering and coastal research” with these objectives currently does not exist in Lower Saxony or in Germany due to a lack of networking between diverse individual activities and unbundled specialist expertise. Nevertheless, the prerequisites for cooperation in Lower Saxony’s research landscape in coastal research and coastal engineering are already partially in place through collaborative research projects and bilateral collaborations, so that the challenges of climate change can be met efficiently through structural networking and bundling of research, teaching, and transfer. We will utilize valuable knowledge, experience, and data archives from the past and, in an interdisciplinary team using modern methods, develop solutions for the future. We will develop new coastal protection strategies that incorporate nature-based solutions. To do this, we must be able to understand and predict the temporal and spatial developments of coastal landscapes and their controlling factors, as well as the dynamics of sediments, surface water, and groundwater. We can learn from the pre-dike coastal landscape, which will occur modeled along profiles from the dune coasts of the islands, across the mudflats, the salt marshes, the dyked coasts with marshes and moors, and the mainland to the Geest. To this end, we organize intensive, networked research collaboration with monthly hybrid sessions, joint field/laboratory activities, and annual working meetings. The challenges of the regional and international labor market lie in the training of a sufficient number of university graduates, whose hallmark, unlike previous disciplinary degree programs, must increasingly be geared toward tackling future challenges in coastal regions across interdisciplinary boundaries. The Science Area is responding to this need with the conceptual development of an English-language master’s program focused on engineering and natural sciences (working title: “Sustainable Coastal Engineering and Science”). The Science Area is developing a curriculum, piloting initial joint teaching activities, and preparing the program. The Science Area utilizes and transfers scientific findings through guidelines and political and economic advice for social and economic benefit. The involvement of Lower Saxony’s state-owned enterprises and the National Park Administration provides direct contact for this transfer.