Acronym DEVOTES
Category
Fisheries
Title DEVelopment Of innovative Tools for understanding marine biodiversity and assessing good Environmental Status Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project (generic)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
ENVIRONMENT – Environment (including Climate change)
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Angel Borja Coordinator email aborja@azti.es
Coordinator institution
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Institutions involved
AU - Aarhus University (Denmark) ,
CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (United Kingdom) ,
DEU - Dokuz Eylül University (Turkey) ,
NA - ECOREACH Srl (Italy) ,
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute (Finland) ,
NA - GCE Blue Maritime Cluster (Norway) ,
IMAR - Institute of Marine Research (Portugal) ,
IOBAS - Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria) ,
JRC - Joint Research Centre (Belgium) ,
KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) ,
KU CORPI - Klaipeda University; Coastal Research and Planning Institute (Lithuania) ,
MARILIM - MariLim Aquatic Research GmbH (Germany) ,
MHI - Marine Hydrophysical Institute (Ukraine) ,
CoNISMa - National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway) ,
NA - OceanDTM (United Kingdom) ,
PML - Plymouth Marine Laboratory (United Kingdom) ,
NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Netherlands) ,
SALT - Salt Lofoten AS (Norway) ,
CSIC - Spanish National Research Council (Spain) ,
UHULL - University of Hull (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 12,086,862 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/308392 Summary The overall goal of DEVOTES is to better understand the relationships between pressures from human activities and climatic influences and their effects on marine ecosystems, including biological diversity, in order to support the ecosystem based management and fully achieve the Good Environmental Status (GES) of marine waters. It involves 23 partners from 15 EU countries, including two non-EU partners (from Saudi Arabia and Ukraine) and four SMEs, along with two observers (EPA and NOAA) from the US. A panel of independent scientists form the Advisory Board (AB) which will provide strategic guidance and support the partnership to ensure that the project’s results meet the objectives The AB will discuss the plans, progress and use of project results and recommend adjustment of the priorities of the project throughout the DEVOTES cycle.
Goals:
i) improve our understanding of the impact of human activities and climate change on marine biodiversity; ii) identify the barriers and bottlenecks that prevent Good Environmental Status from being achieved; iii) test indicators and develop new, innovative ones to assess biodiversity in a harmonized way throughout the 4 regional seas; iv) develop, test and validate innovative integrative modelling and monitoring tools to improve our understanding of ecosystem and biodiversity changes, for integration into a unique and holistic assessment; v) propose and disseminate strategies and measures for ecosystems’ adaptive management, including the active role of industry and relevant stakeholders.
Keywords
Ecosystem approach;
Biodiversity;
Monitoring;
Environmental impact;
Climate change;
Anthropic activity;
Indicators;
Impacts;
Marine Region
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