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MPA Europe
MPA Europe

The MPA Europe project (2023-2026) will map the optimal locations for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in all European Seas. The approach applies a holistic range of measures that includes biodiversity from species to ecosystems, habitats, and the area covers the...

  • 2026
MPA Networks
MPA Networks

The project will support testing and adaptation of tools and recommendations from previous projects to improve marine conservation on selected pilot sites, as well as facilitate the transfer of lessons learned and best practices to the MPA community around the Mediterranean.

Networks...

  • 2022
MSP and the Impacts of Climate Change
MSP and the Impacts of Climate Change


This project is a part of the Blue Growth & Marine Planning Scheme established under the Union Priority 6 (Integrated Maritime Policy) of Ireland’s EMFF Operational Programme. It has been split into three categories, and the given project represents a part of the “Spatial Data...

  • 2019
MSP Data Governance
MSP Data Governance

The project represents a part of the Blue Growth & Marine Planning Scheme, established under the Union Priority 6 (Integrated Maritime Policy) of Ireland’s EMFF Operational Programme. It splits into three categories, and represents a part of the “MSP Data Management”.

The aim of the project...

  • 2019
MSP Global West Med Pilot
MSP Global Pilot Project: West Mediterranean

The pilot project in the West Mediterranean is being implemented in Algeria, France, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia, while other member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean in the Western Mediterranean can also participate in training activities.

Building...

  • 2019
MSP Med - Paving the Road to MSP in the Mediterranean
MSP Med - Paving the Road to MSP in the Mediterranean

MSP-MEd aims to facilitate the implementation of the ICZM Protocol in the Mediterranean Sea. The Protocol includes several explicit references to marine spatial planning providing the legal basis for planning and management in the Mediterranean. Project activities evaluated related methodologies...

  • 2015
MSP-GREEN
Maritime Spatial Planning as enabler of the European Green Deal

The MSP-GREEN project contributes to align maritime spatial plans to the ambition of the EGD by creating a framework for plans as marine enablers of the EGD. The framework will provide a cross-cutting approach to the EGD key topics relevant...

  • 2024
MSP-LSI
MSP-LSI - Maritime spatial planning and land-sea interactions
The main objective of MSP-LSI is to improve stakeholders’ planning processes through the coordinated, comparable and systematic acquisition and analysis of both marine and terrestrial data and information at a European, regional and sub-regional level.
  • 2019
MSP-MED
Toward the operational implementation of MSP in our common Mediterranean Sea

Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) emerged worldwide as an important policy tool for planning, in an efficient manner, the different ways the Seas and Oceans are used, in order to achieve both the sustainable development of the Blue economy and a...

  • 2022
MSP-OR
Advancing Maritime Spatial Planning in Outermost Regions (MSP-OR)

The European outermost regions (ORs) of the Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain) and French Guiana (France) are making cooperative efforts to support the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSP Directive 2014/89/EU) in their marine territories, to...

  • 2024
MSP-TRANS
: Erarbeitung von raumplanerischen, naturschutzfachlichen, naturschutzrechtlichen Grundlagen und Empfehlungen für die raumplanerische Umsetzung des Ökosystemansatzes in den OSPAR- und HELCOM-Meeresgewässern und der deutschen AWZ

MSP-TRANS: Development of principles and recommendations in the fields of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), nature conservation and nature protection legislation in order to incorporate the Ecosystem-Based Approach (EBA) into the spatial planning of OSPAR and HELCOM marine waters as well...

  • 2021
MSP4BIO
Improved Science-Based Maritime Spatial Planning to Safeguard and Restore Biodiversity in a Coherent European MPA Network

The MSP4BIO supports the implementation of the EU (European Union) Biodiversity Strategy (EUBS) 2030, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) post-2020 framework, and the EU Green Deal. The MSP4Bio puts biodiversity considerations into policy decision processes to develop an integrated...

  • 2025