Acronym Marnet
Category
Fisheries
Title Marine Atlantic regions network Programme Interreg IV
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
Strand B
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Atlantic Area
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Kieran Moylan Coordinator email kmoylan@bmwassembly.ie
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA - Azti (Spain) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (Portugal) ,
NUI Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland) ,
NA - Regional Council of Brittany (France) ,
UPV/EHU - Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea) (Spain) ,
UoS - University of Stirling (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2014 Funding (€) € 1,309,946 Website http://marnetproject.eu/ Summary MARNET is an EU transnational co-operation project involving eight partners from the five member states of the Atlantic Area. The aim of the project is to create an EU Atlantic marine socio economic network that will develop a methodology to create and collate comparable marine socio-economic data across the Atlantic regions and to use this data to support marine socio economic development initiatives along the Atlantic Area.
(1) Examine the economic utility of the marine environment; (2) Enhance competitiveness of Atlantic Periphery economy through provision of reliable and reproducible marine socio economic information vital to policy development & economic development across many marine related sectors; (3) Establish a formal charter for sharing marine socio economic research facilities in Atlantic Regions among Research Institutes and Regional Public Authorities; (4) Create Atlas of marine socio economic indicators for the Atlantic Area 5.Act as a framework to collaborate on further marine research initiatives.
Keywords
Economy;
Fisheries management;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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