The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

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Last Update: 2024/06/19

HERMIONE
Fisheries
Hotspot ecosystem research and Man's impact on European seas
FP7
 FP7 - Large-Scale Integrating Project
ENVIRONMENT – Environment (including Climate change)
Cooperation
European
Philip Weaver
ppew@noc.ac.uk
NERC - Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom)
AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Germany),  NA - Archimedix Möckl & Munzel GbR (Germany),  NA - Cardiff University (United Kingdom),  NA - Costa Edutainment SpA (Italy),  IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France),  FAU - Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany),  NA - GCE Blue Maritime Cluster (Norway),  UGent - Ghent University (Belgium),  HWU - Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom),  IH - Hydrographic Institute (Portugal),  IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway),  NA - Jacobs University (Germany),  IFM-GEOMAR - Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (Germany),  MPG - Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Germany),  NA - MEDIAN SCP (Spain),  CoNISMa - National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences (Italy),  NA - National Marine Aquarium Ltd (United Kingdom),  CNR - National Research Council (Italy),  NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy),  NUI Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland),  UPMC - Pierre and Marie Curie University (France),  KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Netherlands),  NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Netherlands),  RAS-IO - Russian Academy of Sciences; Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (Russian Federation),  SAMS - Scottish Association for Marine Science (United Kingdom),  CSIC - Spanish National Research Council (Spain),  UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (Norway),  UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme (Kenya),  UCC - University College Cork (Ireland),  UOA - University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom),  UA - University of Aveiro (Portugal),  UB - University of Barcelona (Spain),  Uni-HB - University of Bremen (Germany),  UGOT - University of Gothenburg (Sweden),  UNILIV - University of Liverpool (United Kingdom),  NA - University of Southampton (United Kingdom),  UAC - University of the Azores (Portugal),  UTH - University of Thessaly (Greece), 
2009
2012
€ 10,982,142
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/226354
The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modellers and socio-economists) that will integrate biodiversity, specific adaptions and biological capacity in the context of a wide range of highly vulnerable deep-sea habitats. Gaining this understanding is crucial, because these ecosystems are now being affected by climate change and impacted by man through fishing, resource extraction, seabed installations and pollution. To design and implement effective governance strategies and management plans we must understand the extent, natural dynamics and interconnection of ocean ecosystems and integrate socio-economic research with natural science. The study sites include the Arctic, North Atlantic and Mediterranean and cover a range of ecosystems including cold-water corals, canyons, cold and hot seeps, seamounts and open slopes and deep-basins. The project will make strong connections between deep-sea science and user needs. HERMIONE will enhance the education and public perception of the deep-ocean issues also through some of the major EU aquaria. These actions, together with GEOSS databases that will be made available, will create a platform for discussion between a ranges of stakeholders, and contribute to EU environmental policies. (1) To investigate the dimensions, distribution and interconnection of deep-sea ecosystems; (2) To understand changes in deep-sea ecosystems related to key factors including climate change, human impacts and the impact of large-scale episodic events; (3) To understand the biological capacities and specific adaptations of deep-sea organisms, and investigate the importance of biodiversity in the functioning of deep-water ecosystems; (4) To provide stakeholders and policy-makers with scientific knowledge to support deep-sea governance aimed at the sustainable management of resources and the conservation of ecosystems.
Physical disturbance; Environmental impact; Impacts; Climate change; Ecosystem approach; Anthropic activity;
Southwest of Ireland-West (27.VIIk) Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19) Southwest of Ireland-East (27.VIIj) Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20) Northern Spain (GSA 6) Crete Island (GSA 23) Aegean Sea (GSA 22) Malta Island (GSA 15) Rockall (27.VIb) Porcupine Bank (27.VIIc) Northwest Coast of Scotland and North Ireland (27.VIa) Norwegian Sea (27.IIa) West of Ireland (27.VIIb) South Levant (GSA 26) Gulf of Lions (GSA 7) South of Sicily (GSA 16) Spitzbergen and Bear Island (27.IIb) Azores Grounds (27.Xa, 27.Xb) Portuguese Waters (27.IXa,27.IXb)
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