Project record of Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern European Seas

Information

Type
Project
Name
Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern European Seas
Acronym
PERSEUS
Description @en
The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowledge. Well-coordinated scientific research and socio-economic analysis will be applied at a wide-ranging scale, from basin to coastal. The new knowledge will advance our understanding on the selection and application of the appropriate descriptors and indicators of the MSFD. New tools will be developed in order to evaluate the current environmental status, by way of combining monitoring and modelling capabilities and existing observational systems will be upgraded and extended. Moreover, PERSEUS will develop a concept of an innovative, small research vessel, aiming to serve as a scientific survey tool, in very shallow areas, where the currently available research vessels are inadequate. In view of reaching Good Environmental Status (GES), a scenario-based framework of adaptive policies and management schemes will be developed. Scenarios of a suitable time frame and spatial scope will be used to explore interactions between projected anthropogenic and natural pressures. A feasible and realistic adaptation policy framework will be defined and ranked in relation to vulnerable marine sectors/groups/regions in order to design management schemes for marine governance. Finally, the project will promote the principles and objectives outlined in the MSFD across the SES. Leading research Institutes and SMEs from EU Member States, Associated States, Associated Candidate countries, non-EU Mediterranean and Black Sea countries, will join forces in a coordinated manner, in order to address common environmental pressures, and ultimately, take action in the challenge of achieving GES.
Start date
2012-1
End date
2016

Institutes & people involved

Middle East Technical University
role: Partner
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
role: Partner
Spanish Council for Scientific Research
role: Partner
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
role: Partner
Plan Bleu
role: Partner
University of Malta
role: Partner
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness; Instituto Español de Oceanografía
role: Partner
University of Barcelona
role: Partner
Technical University of Catalunya
role: Partner
The National Center for Scientific Research
role: Partner
Université Aix-Marseille III
role: Partner
Pierre & Marie Curie University
role: Partner
Italian National Research Council
role: Partner
Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente
role: Partner
European Commission Joint Research Center
role: Partner
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
role: Partner
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
role: Partner
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
role: Partner
University of Plymouth
role: Partner
Deltares
role: Partner
Universiteit Utrecht
role: Partner
Université de Liège
role: Partner
University of the Aegean
role: Partner
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
role: Partner
University of Crete
role: Partner
The Cyprus Institute
role: Partner
University of Cyprus
role: Partner
National Institute of Biology
role: Partner
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
role: Partner
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd.
role: Partner
University of Haifa
role: Partner
University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski"
role: Partner
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology; Marine Biology and Ecology
role: Partner
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology
role: Partner
Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Delta Dunarii
role: Partner
University of Istanbul
role: Partner
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas
role: Partner
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Marine Hydrophysical Institute
role: Partner
Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University
role: Partner
Russian Academy of Sciences; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
role: Partner
Tbilisi State University
role: Partner
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
role: Partner
National Institute for Fisheries Research
role: Partner
SAROST S.A.
role: Partner
Papathanassiou Evangelos
associated with: Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
role: Co-ordinator
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology
role: Partner
Université Paul Sabatier
role: Partner
Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
role: Partner
CLU Srl
role: Partner
Black Sea NGO Network
role: Partner
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
role: Partner
Basque Centre for Climate Change
role: Partner
EIR Development Partners Ltd.
role: Partner
Cosnav Engineering srl
role: Partner
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
role: Partner
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
role: Partner

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date created: 2013-01-15
date modified: 2017-01-01