Projects

RITMARE is the leading Italian national marine research project for the period 2012-2016. The project has been structured around three key objectives:

• Support integrated policies for the safeguard of the environment (the health of the sea);
• Enable sustainable use of...

There are many uncertainties in the Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) sector concerning environmental pressures and impacts.

The objective of the SafeWAVE project is to remove certain non-technological barriers that could limit the development of ocean energy.

These non-technological barriers were...

SASMAP’s purpose was to develop new technologies and best practices in order to locate, assess and manage Europe’s underwater cultural heritage in more effective ways. SASMAP took holistic- and process- based approaches to investigate underwater environments and the archaeological sites...

Hav möter Land (Sea meets Land) shall contribute to the long-term sustainable utilisation of the value represented by Kattegatt and Skagerrak coastal and sea area. Climate, water management (regarding the implementation of the first cycle of the Water Framework Directive)...

The SeaDataNet I (2006-2011) & II (2011-2015) Projects were first established in 2006 in order to consolidate marine data sets which are vital for marine research across 35 countries which have coasts along Europe’s seas. Within these countries over 600...

The main aim of SeaGIS is to improve the knowledge for and about MSP and make it more accessible in order to increase the possibilities of ecosystem based regional planning of marine areas and to create a common platform for...

The objective of this project is to implement a restricted number of relevant indicators to check the National Ocean Strategy 2013-2020 results, considering a sustainable development perspective. This is aimed to be achieved through the development of a Strategic Monitoring...

The SEANERGY 2020 project formulated concrete policy recommendations on how to best deal with maritime spatial planning (MSP) and remove MSP obstacles that stand against the deployment of offshore renewable power generation. The project focused particularly on offshore renewable energy...

Developments in the North Sea are ramping up fast and increasingly have cross-border impacts or are planned across borders. The growing need for offshore wind park construction will be one of the main drivers for such developments. The SEA (Strategic...

The project aims at increasing the know-how and knowledge on sustainable marine governance of the people engaged in maritime issues and problems  in their daily work. The main vehicles serving this purpose are: training and networking according to the jointly...

Shape aimed to develop a multilevel and cross-sector governance system, based on integrated management of natural resources, risk’s prevention and conflicts resolution among uses of the Adriatic coast and sea.
It promoted strengthening of the institutional capacity needed to face these challenges in a...