Programme: EASME-DG Mare
Project title: Towards the operational implementation of MSP in our common Mediterranean Sea
Acronym: MSP-MED
Duration: 01/03/2020 – 30/10/2022
Total budget: € 3.135.915
ISMAR budget: € 295.149
Summary:
Maritime Spatial Planning emerged worldwide as an important policy tool for planning efficiently marine resource and sustainable development of maritime space. It can also be used to strengthen cross-border cooperation and to support improved ocean governance. The overall objective of MSP-MED is to favour the MSP Directive’s implementation in the Mediterranean Sea, by supporting the establishment of coherent and coordinated maritime spatial plans across the Mediterranean, for promoting a sustainable and long lasting “blue” development. The MSP-MED project will capitalize the results of important EC-funded projects on MSP, recently carried out and ongoing, involving a large part of the EU Member States of the Mediterranean and their MSP Competent Authorities, promoting also the active participation of the other MS and of non-EU Mediterranean countries.
Contact person in ISMAR: andrea.barbanti@ve.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Consorzio per il Coordinamento delle Ricerche Inerenti al Sistema Lagunare di Venezia – CORILA (Italy)
- Agence Francaise pour la Biodiversitè (France)
- Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine (France)
- Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia (Spain)
- PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS (Greece)
- Planning Authority (Malta)
- Ministry of Environment Energy and Climate Change (Greece)
- Regionalni Razvojni Center Koper Zavod (Slovenia)