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RSSMeeting summary: 7th meeting for developing a SRIA for the Black Sea/ 15 JAN 2019, Brussels
The 7th meeting discussed the latest document on the SRIA pillars (with many thanks to you all for your contributions and to the METU team for their excellent consolidation work).2018.11.27_bs_sria_pillars_v0.docxThe agenda of the meeting can be seen here:draft_agenda_-_black_sea_-_15.1.2019...
Meeting Summary: 6th Experts' meeting towards SRIA for the Black Sea/ Bucharest, 5.10.2018
This was our first meeting after the launch of the Burgas Vision Paper: A Blue Growth Initiative for Research and Innovation in the Black Sea on 31 May 2018 in Burgas, Bulgaria. It was planned as a hands-on meeting, where the experts could work on the different pillars agreed in the Vision Paper and...
Romania’s first national workshop on the blue economy
The event is part of a series of workshops organised in the Black Sea coastal countries and the Republic of Moldova under the “Facility for Blue Growth” project. This EU-funded project provides administrative assistance to public and private maritime stakeholders wishing to boost sustainable blue...
Meeting Summary: 4th Experts' meeting towards SRIA for the Black Sea, 27.3.2018, Istanbul/ Next meeting >> 30 May 2018
The meeting brought together 37 participants (list attached), incl. senior officials from the Foreign ministries of Turkey, Russia and Romania. Besides BSEC, representatives of the Black Sea Commission and the CPMR took part in the discussions. The meeting was another step in the process towards...
Blue economy, a key for sustainable development, jobs creation and investments in Mediterranean
SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE 1st UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN STAKEHOLDER CONFERENCE ON THE BLUE ECONOMY (EN) SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE 1st UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN STAKEHOLDER CONFERENCE ON THE BLUE ECONOMY (FR)Stakeholders discussed in 12 workshops about innovative financing of maritime investment, ocean...
Western 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...
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...
Call for expression of interest for individual experts and organizations to participate in the INSPIRE marine pilot
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC (MSFD) gives a formal reporting requirement on assessment, good environmental status, environmental targets, monitoring programmes and programme of measures that should be applied to marine (sub)-regions. MSFD article 19 includes a requirement that...