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Sustainable, resilient and climate friendly Blue Growth of EU Aquaculture and Beyond

"Sustainable, resilient and climate friendly Blue Growth of EU Aquaculture and Beyond" is the free-of-charge online course, which will be hosted by CIHEAM Bari's eLearning platform (http://el.iamb.it/) aiming to turn/transform results and outputs into practical knowledge to implement the innovative solution identified and developed...

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Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP)

The Mediterranean basin has a number of human pressures that threaten marine and coastal ecosystems and biodiversity. These pressures arise from several sectors such as maritime traffic, fishing, industry, and tourism. Ecosystem-based management is considered the best practice to effectively deal with these threats since...

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  • University of Greifswald, Germany
Summer School for Young Planners and Regional Developers on “Sustainable Futures for the Baltic Sea Region”

The Summer School will take place at the University of Greifswald – Institute of Geography and Geology. The University of Greifswald is one of the oldest universities in Germany and the Baltic Sea Region, founded in 1456. The University of Greifswald initiates a Summer School...


Multi-Use Offshore Training Workshops 

Throughout the UNITED project, the consortium organises a series of five training workshops. Workshops are addressing current and most pressing topics in the field of ocean multi-use activities. By examining diverse potential multi-use concepts from economical, environmental, legal, social and technical perspectives, these events offer a platform to bring together stakeholders from different ocean sectors, research community as well as the representatives of public administration and society.

More about these training opportunities.

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Workshop 1 | Offshore Platform Operation, Safety and Logistics within the context of multi-use

The multi-use offshore concept is still at the early stage of development, with many open questions regarding the safety of operations and logistics offshore. The safety offshore depends heavily on the skill and experience of the responsible staff.

The first UNITED public training workshop "Offshore...

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Workshop 2 | Aquaculture Multi-Use Offshore: Environment and Biology

The second UNITED public training workshop " Aquaculture Multi-Use Offshore: Environment and Biology” will be held on May 17th, 2022.

Seaweed producers, academics, project partners, Marine users (developers, businesses), governmental bodies (public authorities, advisory bodies, environmental NGOs). Given the fact that offshore aquaculture and associated value...

  • May/June 2022. Workshop 3: Multi-Use Offshore: Technology. (Preferred in person, depending on COVID19 situation hybrid)
  • September/October 2022. Workshop 4: Multi-Use Business Cases and Economics. (Preferred in person, depending on COVID19 situation hybrid)
  • Workshop
  • Faculty of Law and Criminology – Ghent University , room in Paddenhoek 1 (2nd floor), Ghent, Belgium
Workshop 5: Politics and Regulations affecting Multi-use

The legal and insurance experiences of MU of the UNITED pilots will be shared and discussed with the aim to contribute to the "Case specific report on legal aspects and insurance issues".
The workshop will focus on the legal and insurance aspects of the MU...


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MOOC on Planning and Management of Marine and Coastal Areas

This course aims to provide participants with an overall knowledge of planning and management of marine and coastal areas, the principles, and approaches that can be adopted for its effective elaboration and implementation. Specific focus will be addressed on available stakeholder engagement approaches and communication strategies to support planning and management of marine and...

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Transnational training on land-sea interactions in spatial planning

Land-Sea-Act project and Tallinn University organise transnational training on land-sea interactions in spatial planning and is cordially inviting to participate spatial planners, regional and local representatives of governance from coastal areas with interest in themes of Blue Growth, coastal and marine environment and tourism, offshore...

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Training Programme in Blue Sector

Within the INTERREG Atlantic Area Project FANBEST (Funding Atlantic Network for Blue Economy Technology Transfer), an online transnational training programme will be held composed of a series of webinars to enhance the capacity of advisers, support services, researchers and entrepreneurs in fundraising for technology transfer in the...

  • Webinar
Science-Policy-Society interactions in ecosystem-based marine resources management and planning.

BlueMed Coordination and Support Action and the Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community (MBPC) are jointly organising a course on “Science-Policy-Society interactions in ecosystem-based marine resources management and planning” from 1 to 4 March 2021 in Venice, Italy. 

The MBPC-BlueMed course will be preceded by a 2-hour...

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  • Magoodhoo, Faafu Atoll, Maldives
Marine Spatial Planning: an experience in the Maldives

The general objective of the training workshop is to test an MSP process through the creation of co-produced knowledge related to critical issues and opportunities of the Maldivian island/s by incorporating, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental aspects considering also climate change issues. The workshop is organized by...

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  • Malta
Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean, Black, Baltic and Caspian Seas

This training programme is a flagship activity of IOI together with that delivered from the University of Dalhousie in Canada and builds upon the more than 35 years' experience of the International Ocean Institute in conducting training and capacity building programmes on ocean governance. One...