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COLLECTIVE ACTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF THE EU SEA TURTLE POPULATIONS (LIFE EUROTURTLES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Background The project focuses on areas that are pivotal for the conservation of the two sea turtle species occurring in the EU and listed as priority species in Annex II of the Habitats Directive, the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). In the EU, the loggerhead turtle has major nesting sites in Greece and Cyprus, a ...
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Towards COast to COast NETworks of marine protected areas ( from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential (COCONET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Environmental policies focus on protecting habitats valuable for their biodiversity, as well as producing energy in cleaner ways. The establishment of Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks and installing Offshore Wind Farms (OWF) are important ways to achieve these goals. The protection and management of marine biodiversity has focused on placing MPAs in areas important for biodiversity. This has p ...
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Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...ectors/groups/regions in order to design management schemes for marine governance. Finally, the project will promote the principles and objectives outlined in the MSFD across the SES.Leading research Institutes and SMEs from EU Member States, Associated States, Associated Candidate countries, non-EU Mediterranean and Black Sea countries, will join forces in a coordinated manner, in order to addres ...
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SeaDataNet II: Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management (SEADATANET II)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...behalf of science, environmental management, policy making, and economy. SeaDataNet is undertaken by the National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs), and marine information services of major research institutes, from 31 coastal states bordering the European seas, and also includes Satellite Data Centres, expert modelling centres and the international organisations IOC, ICES and EU-JRC in its netwo ...
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Strengthening of Centres for Aquaculture production and Safety surveillance in Adriatic Cross-border Countries (CAPS2)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

...f microbiology problems and ichthyopathologies. Project promoted also the development of several new diagnostic services for aquaculture farms through the strengthening of the Croatian Veterinary Institute (CVI) diagnostic tools and implemented a web GIS application for the surveillance of molluscs biological safety conditions. In addition, the collection and analysis of data on shellfish bacterio ...
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Network for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Sea Turtles in the Adriatic (NETCET)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

The main objective of the NETCET project is to develop common strategies for the conservation of cetaceans and sea turtles (C&ST) in the Adriatic through regional cooperation. Due to the migratory nature of these species cross-border collaboration and shared management responsibility between Adriatic states is crucial in order to plan effective long-term conservation strategies. The Adriatic sea h ...
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Strengthening common reaction capacity to fight sea pollution of oil, toxic and hazardous substances in Adriatic Sea (HAZADR)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2015,

The Adriatic Sea is one of the most endangered areas in the Mediterranean, facing serious environmental challenges, especially taking into consideration that it constitutes an important oil transport route to the North-Adriatic ports of Trieste, Venice, Koper and Omišalj. From an economic point of view, the Adriatic region plays an important role in tourism and recreation, but is at the same time ...
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Management of Port areas in the MEDiterranean Sea Basin (MAPMED)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The Mediterranean Sea Basin has become one of the most popular destinations for ship and sailing cruises. Within this context, the MAPMED project addresses the issue of marine pollution in tourist port areas with a view to ensuring both tourism development and protection of natural resources. ...
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Transnational ENhancement of ECOPORT8 network  (TEN_ECOPORT)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

In the recent years the ports are the hub-point of the Core Regional Transport Networks, as precursors for the TEN-T comprehensive network in the South East Europe. In this direction, a great responsibility was entrusted to the port authorities: they are the authority appointed for the Control and the real application of the Environmental Manage System, being the nodes that ensure the environmenta ...
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Options for Delivering Ecosystem-Based Marine Management (ODEMM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The overall aim of the ODEMM project is to develop a set of fully-costed ecosystem management options that would deliver the objectives of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Habitats Directive, the European Commission Blue Book and the Guidelines for the Integrated Approach to Maritime Policy. This will be achieved by: (i) providing a comprehensive knowledge base to support policy for th ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF TRANSBORDER CORRIDOR PORTS (ECOPORT8)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Feb 27, 2012,

The increase in SEE shipping traffic has raised critical issues concerning the environmental quality of coasts and sea water, above all due to the lack of shared environmental policy. ECOPORT 8 aims to improve the quality of ports, placing the prevention of pollution and preservation of natural resources in port areas and nearby coastal zones as pivotal to the maritime system. The project is to ca ...
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UP-GRADE BLACK SEA SCIENTIFIC NETWORK (UP-GRADE BS-SCENE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The recently finished FP6 RI Black Sea SCENE project has established a Black Sea Scientific Network of leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes, universities and NGO’s from the countries around the Black Sea and has developed a distributed virtual data and information infrastructure that is populated and maintained by these organisations to improve the identification, access, e ...
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A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

PESI provides standardised and authoritative taxonomic information by integrating and securing Europe's taxonomically authoritative species name registers and nomenclators (name databases) that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe.PESI defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information by integrating the infrastructural compo ...
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SYNERGIES BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY FOR A SHARED APPROACH TO EUROPEAN SEAS (4SEAS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2010,

"More than 70% of the globe is covered by water, and Europe itself is bordered by four different water basins (the Atlantic Ocean/North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea) which have been shaping and influencing the European cultural, social and economic heritage since the ancient times. Seas are the paradigm of cross-cutting approaches to knowledge and life. Oceans are a ...
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Management and sustainable development of protected transitional waters (TWReferenceNET)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

The project aims at improving and reinforcing the conservation of the natural heritage in protected transitional ecosystems and at enlarging their sustainable fruition. The strategic objectives are to ameliorate conservation of the natural heritage in the protected transitional waters of the CADSES area, by deepening knowledge, producing technological innovation, reinforcing regulation and overcom ...
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Miglioramento della Gestione delle Regioni Marine (NATURA)

ΣΥΝΤΟΜΗ ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ (όπως αναφέρεται στην πρόταση - πεδίο 19):Το προτεινόμενο έργο αφορά στην από κοινού αναβάθμιση της διαχείρισης δύο θαλάσσιων περιοχών NATURA μέσω (1) ανταλλαγών εμπειριών (συναντήσεις εργασίας, εκπαιδευτικό ταξίδι, κτλ.), (2) διεξαγωγή κοινών ερευνών σημαντικών βιολογικών παραμέτρων και (3) μεταφοράς τεχνογνωσίας, με τελικό στόχο την προστασία και αξιοποίηση κοινών περιβαλλοντικ ...
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ORION - Virtual Learning Environment in Environmental Science, with on-line re-useable Interactive Modules for remote users in Marine Pollution and ecology with self-learning language package in four languages

The major goal of ORION is the development of a powerful, state-of-the-art ICT learning tool, to be used within a Virtual Learning Environment in the Marine Environment sector.In certain remote areas of Europe, applied marine sciences play a major economic role (fisheries and aquaculture), and as such, ongoing formal education and training is needed at all levels. However, remote areas are nearly ...
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