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RSSLive Discussion: Promoting apprenticeships to SMEs
During the event, participants will discuss policy and different instruments used to involve SMEs in apprenticeship programmes across Europe.Some of the topics that the discussion aims to explore include:effective ways to promote apprenticeships to SMEs at national and regional levels;challenges and...
Call for tenders to set up 'Facility for blue growth in the Black Sea' (winner announced)
Update!After a thorough evaluation presses the winner of this competitive tender was selected. On 10 October, a contact was signed with Kantor Management Consultants in consortium with Application Européenne de Technologies et de Services (AETS) and subcontracts Stratégies Mer et Littoral and...
EU research on Deep Sea Mining up to 2016
MIDASBlue MiningBlue NodulesEcological aspects of deep-sea miningViable Alternative Mine Operating SystemBudget€12 M€15 M€8 M€13.2 M€12.6 MEU contribution€9 M€10 M€8 MPartners32191417Countries69119StartNovember 2013February 2014February 2016February 2013Duration36 months48 months42 months
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...
Study to investigate the state of knowledge of deep-sea mining
This report gives an overview on the current and latest state of knowledge of deep-sea mining. it examines the geological potential, relevant technologies, economic viability, environmental implications and legal regime. It includes an inventory of ongoing exploration and exploitation projects.It is...
G7 issue paper on seabed mining
Issue NoteFASS Meeting, 25 March 2015 Deep Sea MiningObjectiveThe international seabed contains substantive mineral resources such as polymetallic nodules, polymetallic sulphides and ferromanganese crusts. Amongst others these comprise various precious metals and high technology raw materials. With...
Study on maritime clusters in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
DG MARE has commissioned a study to provide policy makers at the EU and sea-basin levels an updated analysis of the current status and potential development of maritime clusters in the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas.In order to realise this aim, the study:Provides insights into the state of the...
Knowledge Innovation Communities and Blue Growth
Knowledge Innovation Communities aim to ensure that the three sides of the knowledge triangle – education, research, industry - work together on a common challenge to create the innovation that Europe needs to create jobs and growth. Three already exist on climate, information technology and...