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RSSWestern Mediterranean countries strengthen co-operation to promote Blue Economy in the region
The Ministers of Western Mediterranean countries, adopted on November 30, 2017, at Castel dell’ Ovo in Naples, Italy a Ministerial Declaration [EN] [FR] - plus Annex [EN] [FR] - on the Initiative for the sustainable development of the blue economy in the Western Mediterranean, at a meeting chaired...
Final version of second data adequacy report for Mediterranean
final reportprevious draft with annexessediment mass balance monitoring data, the targeted product could not be realized, data are only available in the literature and after the last EUROSION project, terminated in 2004, no INSPIRE catalogue and database was constructed from the data collected.the...
How good are Mediterranean marine data? first draft of second data adequacy report
From the combined availability and appropriateness indicators analysis, the emerging gaps for the monitoring system at the basin scales, in view of the 7 prescribed Challenges are:sediment mass balance monitoring data, the targeted product could not be realized, data are only available in the...
How good are marine data in the Mediterranean? - first data adequacy report
EMODnet MedSea CheckPoint aims to document the quality assessment of the existing monitoringsystem at the sea basin level, by developing fitness-for-use indicators to show the appropriateness and availability of monitoring data for the production of Challenge targeted products. There are seven...
Study supporting a possible network of maritime training academies and institutes in the Mediterranean Sea basin
The study aims to provide policy makers with an assessment of the feasibility, added value and available options for promoting cooperation between institutions providing education and training for marine and maritime professions. An overall 355 educational and training institutes have been mapped...
Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Conference on Blue Economy, 17 November 2015
Over 100 participants from 33 countries, including about a dozen Ministers/State Secretaries, as wellas Commissioners Johannes Hahn and Karmenu Vella gathered in Brussels for the first Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Conference on Blue Economy.Ministers stressed the need to improve...
Call for Proposals for IMP-related actions in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean (Winners announced)
to pilot partnerships between public and private stakeholders (public-private partnerships) in one or more of the following areas: sustainable coastal and maritime tourism, marine research and business integration, access to finance and funding for maritime business;to promote networking between...
Mediterranean checkpoint - Data Adequacy report
data adequacy report[version April 2015]EMODnet MedSea CheckPoint aims to document the quality assessment of the existing monitoring system at the sea basin level, by developing fitness-for-use indicators to show the appropriateness and availability of monitoring data for the production of Challenge...
Simulated oil spill in the Mediterranean
The questionThe drillship “Magna Belgica” in the wider area of ‘Caliph prospect’ off the coast of Libya encountered a technical failure. A fire and crude oil leak began immediately. The spill was contained within a duration of 5 hours with total of 50 tons crude oil loss at sea surface.After initial...
7th Meeting of the Working Group on IMP in the Mediterranean (Brussels, 21-22 October 2014)
On 21st and 22nd October 2014, representatives from Mediterranean countries, regional organisations and the European Commission met in Brussels (Borschette Centre, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels) to review the progress made on Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) in the Mediterranean Sea and jointly...