European Commission unveils Maritime Strategy for the Atlantic

23 - 24 May 2013

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The European Commission has published the brochure "Communicating EU Research & Innovation - A guide for project participants".

The aim of this report is to explain what is meant by the concept of "Common Programs", and to provide guidance on implementing this approach for collaboration within SEAS-ERA. It provides conditions for success and explains benefits that can arise.

The Marine Research Infrastructures (MRI) include a very wide variety of facilities, technologies and services to address the multiple thematics and disciplines of the marine sciences.

The SEAS-ERA Consortium is pleased to announce that 5 R&D projects upon 12 eligible received proposals will get access to funding within SEAS-ERA Joint Call in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Regions - 2012 - in the three following topics:

Details of the 5th and Final EUSA Atlantic Forum Workshop, to be held in Cork (Ireland) on 4th March 2013, are now available

The main aim of this deliverable is to review patterns and mechanisms for HCB in the region, further investigate synergies between national, regional and European programs to identify new instruments and mechanisms to be proposed.

List of workshops organised by SEAS-ERA partners and other events at which SEAS-ERA activities have been promoted.

SEAS-ERA regional Strategic Research Agendas for three sea basins (Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea) to be presented together for the first time. The research strategy of the Baltic Sea BONUS initiative will also be presented.

13-14-15 November 2012, Toulon (France)

This high-level event aimed at sharing experiences on the best practices of communicating marine science and technology to different audiences and also sharing ideas on the relation between Oceans and Society.

The report summarizes the discussions and recommendations of the Workshop and identifies knowledge-gaps and scientific research that can be supported in coming years within the Common Programming framework.

The main objective of the report is to aim at a clear definition of the concept of Common Program, explain the step by step approach towards common program, propose to identify and define key conditions for success and what could be the added value.

The Workshop Reports of the three SEAS-ERA Atlantic Consultative Workshops: Ostend (Feb), Lisbon (April) and Dublin (July) are now on-line and will be used to up-date the draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea Basin (October 2011) for the 2nd SEAS-ERA Strategic Forum Meeting (Brussels, February 2013).

Financial support for New Knowledge for an integrated management of human activities in the sea.

Ifremer has organized the Mediterranean Common Programme Workshop: "How the climate change impacts physical circulation and consequences for the biochemistry cycle" in Toulon - Ifremer Centre (France - Mediterranean).

To identify and select the topics for Common Programmes in the Atlantic Region, a Workshop was organized by the SEAS-ERA Atlantic group with special focus on currents and the conveyor belt. The currents and the Thermohaline Circulation are of major importance for the whole climate system of the Atlantic Region.

SEAS-ERA has heritage several activities from the previous Marine ERA-Nets (AMPERA, MARINERA and MARIFISH) and one of the most important is the follow-up and dissemination of the R&D projects results funded through the Call of Proposals in each Marine ERA-NET.

The EU FP7 SEAS-ERA Atlantic Partnership, in association with the Confederation of Maritime Peripheral Areas - Atlantic Arc Commission, held a Governance Consultative Workshop in Lisbon (Portugal) to discuss the Discussion Document: A Draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea Basin (October 2011).

Through an online survey. Deadline 31st May 2012.

List of workshops organised by SEAS-ERA partners and other events at which SEAS-ERA activities have been promoted.

This document is the output of a long process which includes consultations with the partner institutions, regional experts and two Strategic Analysis Workshops.

NOW CLOSED submissions of transnational R&D proposals focusing in 3 marine sciences topics in the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins. DEADLINE: 24th May 2012.

This report provides an overview of the needs, specificities and imbalances in HCB in the marine sector at pan-European level.

In November 2011, the FP7 SEAS-ERA project published a Discussion Document: A draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea Basin. The document can be downloaded here.

The SEAS-ERA WP6 - Task 6.1 deliverable: A draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea Basin. - A Discussion Document (2011), is now available as a download here.

The EU FP7 SEAS-ERA Atlantic Partnership held a Science Consultative Workshop in Ostend (Belgium) to discuss the SEAS-ERA Discussion Document: A Draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea Basin (October 2011).

The document has been prepared with contributions from individual experts and regional stakeholders. It will form the basis for future SEAS-ERA activities on Joint Calls and Common Programs.

Beatriz Morales-Nin (MINECO) presented SEAS-ERA: towards a common European Strategy" to the General Assembly

This Pan-European Forum on "SEAS‐ERA & JPI Ocean: commonalities and synergies” took place in Brussels on September 2011 and is the first of a series.

Over two hundred copies of the SEAS-ERA Discussion Document "A Draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea-Basin", were distributed at the Lisbon Atlantic Conference on 28th - 29th November 2011.

The document has been prepared by SEAS-ERA Mediterranean partners with contributions from individual experts and regional stakeholders. It will form the basis for future SEAS-ERA activities on Joint Calls and Common Programs.

The Discussion Document, prepared by the SEAS-ERA Atlantic Partnership, is an input to the preparation of a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for the European Atlantic Sea Basin and will form the basis of a stakeholder consultation process to be implemented between January and June 2012.