Below, you will find an overview of the articles that have been posted by the communications team
This call was first published on the UfM Secretariat’s website. The UfM Secretariat has launched the UfM Grant Scheme for Employment Promotion in view of the COVID-19-induced economic crisis. The Grant Scheme has been set in order to support not-for-profit organizations with projects aiming at promoting employment in the UfM Region. The economic consequences of […]
This call was first published on DG REGIO’s website on the 27 July 2020. Objective of the call Under this Call, DG REGIO seeks expressions of interest from transnational partnerships of regional authorities, including ecosystems of regional stakeholders (universities, research centres, clusters, SMEs, etc.) willing to pilot interregional innovation partnerships. The objective is to […]
This article was published first in DG MARE’s website on the 15/07/2020. The European Commission and the European External Action Service have launched a targeted consultation to assess development needs and options for the EU’s international ocean governance agenda. Ocean governance concerns the international and regional processes, agreements, rules and institutions that allow the international community to coordinate […]
Cet article a été publié pour la première fois sur le site MEDPAN. L’original est disponible ici. Malgré le contexte actuel, le projet MPA NETWORKS bat son plein. Ce projet, qui rassemble 10 partenaires et est mené par MedPAN, vise à renforcer les réseaux de gestionnaires d’Aires Marines Protégées en Méditerranée afin d’accroître l’efficacité […]
The European Commission published on 11 June “The EU Blue Economy Report 2020”, providing an overview of the performance of the EU economic sectors related to oceans and the coastal environment. With a turnover of €750 billion in 2018, the EU blue economy is in good health. There were also 5 million people working in […]
Throughout the world, the fisheries and aquaculture sectors are facing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a view to sharing information among its countries and facilitating a reflection on future responses, the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) has conducted a preliminary analysis of the impacts of this crisis on the fisheries and […]
This article was first published here on 25 May on DG CLIMA’s website. The European Commission has published the first annual report on CO2emissions from maritime transport. The report analyses the CO2emissions and energy efficiency information of all the ships over 5,000 gross tonnage, which performed maritime transport activities related to the European Economic Area […]
A Comissão Europeia aprovou um regime português para apoiar o setor das pescas e da aquacultura, através da concessão de empréstimos de até 20 milhões de euros, com taxas de juros bonificadas, para as pequenas e médias empresas (PME) afetadas pelos efeitos da Pandemia Covid-19. Esta linha de crédito ajudará as empresas a responder às […]
This article was first published in the Science for Environment Policy biweekly News Alert. It is fully available here. A survey of over 600 private boats docked in marinas throughout the Mediterranean showed that 71% are carrying non-indigenous species. In certain cases, non-indigenous species can become ‘invasive’ and have enormous and long-lasting impacts on ecosystems. […]
WestMED organized on the 16 April a Hackathon dedicated to Maritime Innovation Technologies Platform. Technological Innovations for an improved management of the sea Technological innovations have emerged through time in relation to high-techs and digitalization (e.g. smart devices, robotics, informational computing, big data, marine “internet of things- IoT”, machine learning, artificial intelligence, machine-to-machine interaction). […]