Projects

MARIBE is a Horizon 2020 funded project which explored cooperation opportunities for companies that combined different Blue Growth and Blue Economy sectors.  The project aims to unlock the potential of multi-use of space and multi-use platforms in the Blue economy...

The MARINA project will engage citizens, researchers, policy makers, industrial and societal actors in order to share knowledge, include the citizens’ vision and societal needs, create a synergy between research and innovation and the environmental safeguard. The Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) process will achieve these objectives...

MARINA Platform is a European project dedicated to bringing offshore renewable energy applications closer to the market by creating new infrastructures for both offshore wind and ocean energy converters. It addresses the need for creating a cost-efficient technology development basis...

Today, coastal infrastructure, such as seawalls, quays and groynes, present on the Channel coast are not designed to  incorporate habitat for marine species or conserve and protect coastal and transitional ecosystems. Instead they serve only human activities: transportation, fishing, coastal development...

The new EU-funded project on Improved transdisciplinary science for effective ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning (MSP) and conservation in European Seas (MarinePlan) has recently started. The 14-17 November 2022 marks the official launch and kick-off meeting for the MarinePlan project in...

Integrating activities planned under MaRINET 2 build upon the achievements of the advanced community created in MaRINET FP7. MaRINET 2 will ensure the continued integration and enhancement of all leading European research infrastructure and facilities specialising in research, development and...

MARISCA aims to contribute towards the protection and conservation of biodiversity in the context of integrated Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) in the Aegean Sea. The ultimate goal of MARISCA is to propose a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and...

MARISPLAN investigates, with the aid of hydrodynamic, ecological, watershed and economic models how climate change influences the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea and its uses. How the society can adapt its policies and uses of the marine ecosystem in a...

MARMONI aims at developing concepts for assessment of conservation status of marine biodiversity, including species and habitats and impacts of various human activities.

The project developed innovative monitoring and assessment approach based on joint set of marine biodiversity indicators and...

The MarPAMM project was set up in January 2018 to protect and monitor the marine fauna of the coasts of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Species living in these regions, such as seabirds, move along the coast, which is why...

Increasing demands on marine resources and activities taking place in the marine area are compromising the future use and viability of the marine environment. Marine spatial planning is a useful and cost-effective tool for the regulation and protection of the...

The aim of the MarSP project is to develop Maritime Spatial Planning schemes in the three Outermost Regions of Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands), in line with the EU Directive on MSP (2014/89/EU) and following an Ecosystem Based Approach...