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Promoting Effective Governance of the Channel Ecosystem

PEGASEAS was an INTERREG IVa cross Channel capitalisation project between France and the United Kingdom and its aim was to promote the efficient governance of the Channel ecosystem.

PEGASEAS aimed to identify common governance outcomes, outputs and lessons learnt from...

  • 2015
People for Ecosystem-based Governance in Assessing Sustainable development of Ocean and coast

Building on existing capacities, PEGASO aimed at developing common approaches and tools to support integrated policies for the coastal, marine and maritime realms of the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins. PEGASO specifically referred to the ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean...

  • 2014
Physics-to-Ecosystem Level Assessment of Impacts of Offshore Windfarms

ECOWind is bringing together experts from science, policy and industry to understand how offshore wind affects ecosystems, and the species and habitats that make them, in order to reduce negative impacts on marine life while tackling climate change.

The ECOWind...

  • 2026
Preserving and sustainably governing cultural heritage and landscapes in European coastal and maritime regions

PERICLES promotes sustainable, participatory governance of cultural heritage in European coastal and maritime regions. Its aim is to develop and demonstrate a comprehensive framework for understanding, preserving and utilizing maritime cultural heritage. 

PERICLES enables geographically balanced, interdisciplinary, mixed-method data gathering across key European maritime...

  • 2021
Improving the PERformance of MArine GOVernance in support of the EU green deal

PERMAGOV aims to streamline the implementation of sustainable marine management by focusing on cross-cutting policy priorities in key areas of transport, energy, life and litter.

The European Green Deal aims to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing Europe and...

  • 2026
Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research for the Southern European Seas

The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS were to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework...

  • 2015
PHAROS4MPAs - Blue Economy and Marine Conservation: Safeguarding Mediterranean MPAs in order to achieve Good Environmental Status

The general objective of the PHAROS4MPAs project is to enhance management effectiveness and networking for Mediterranean MPAs, in order to contribute to the conservation of marine biodiversity and natural ecosystems, taking into account the complex ensemble of human activities developed...

  • 2020
Partnerships Involving Stakeholders in the Celtic Sea Ecosystem

PISCES aimed to improve implementation of European marine policy through multi-sector collaboration. PISCES was an innovative three and half year project (2009-2012) that created a unique partnership of sea-users from the UK, Ireland, France and Spain to jointly explore ways...

  • 2012
Plan Bothnia

The Plan Bothnia project has tested transboundary Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in the Baltic Sea. The project used the Bothnian Sea area between Sweden and Finland as a case study and focused on planning inventory and the elaboration of MSP...

  • 2012
Plan4Blue - Maritime Spatial Planning for Sustainable Blue Economies

Plan4Blue supports growth of the marine and maritime sectors in a way that emphasizes the need to find a balance between economic, social and environmental goals.

The project activities focus on Gulf of Finland and Archipelago Sea areas covering sea...

  • 2019
Tools and capacities for an effective integrated planning in coastal zones and maritime areas in the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Sea regions

The aim of the PlanCoast project was to provide best practice examples and tools for effective integrated planning in coastal zones and marine areas. The key objective was to show the strengths of spatial planning instruments in facilitating effective Integrated...

  • 2008
Paddle

The PADDLE Consortium aims to develop a more inclusive Community across tropical Atlantic joining researches about marine spatial planning in Brazil, West Africa and Europe, and explore alternative options to ensure that new models of production and ocean governance explicitly...

  • 2022