Acronym RITMARE
Category
Seafood Processing
Title RITMARE flagship project Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Fabio Trincardi Coordinator email fabio.trincardi@cnr.it
Coordinator institution
CNR - National Research Council (Italy)
Institutions involved
ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Italy) ,
INGV - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Italy) ,
OGS - National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (Italy) ,
CINFAI - National Inter-University Consortium for Physics of Atmospheres and Hydrospheres (Italy) ,
CoNISMa - National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Italy) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 250,000,000 Website http://www.ritmare.it/en/ Summary RITMARE Flagship Project is one of the National Research Programmes funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
RITMARE is the leading national marine research project for the period 2012-2016; the overall project budget amount to 250 million euros, co-funded by public and private resources. It is coordinated by the National Research Council and involves an integrated effort of most of the scientific community working on marine and maritime issues, as well as some major industrial groups. RITMARE is divided into 7 sub-projects:
1. Maritime Technologies
2. Technologies for Sustainable Fishing
3. Planning of the Maritime Space in Coastal Waters
4. Planning of the Deep Marine Environment and the Open Sea
5. Observation System for the Marine Mediterranean Environment
6. Research, Training and Dissemination Structures
7. Interoperable Infrastructure for the Observation Network and Marine Data
RITMARE supports training of a new generation of researchers, through the funding of innovative projects selected through call for proposal strengthens the strategic presence of Italian research in Europe and in the Mediterranean promotes the establishment of a permanent forum between researchers, decision makers and stakeholders in both the public and private sector, with the aim of fostering the integration and transfer of research results and thus place the knowledge as a reference starting point for strategies and management decisions. A RITMARE stakeholders' forum is also set up, facilitating contacts between the participants in the Project and the main stakeholders for the discussion of new technological developments; the planning and management of maritime space; and the prevention and management of environmental risk. It also facilitates discussion and analysis of specific problems on which to test the new production methods or intervention approaches.
The aim of RITMARE is to implement what is suggested in the Blue Paper (COM2007/575 of October 10th 2007) in terms of research and innovation, by means of a national programme of scientific and technological marine research.
More specifically, RITMARE has been structured around the following three objectives:
1. to support integrated policies for the safeguard of the environment (the health of the sea);
2. to enable sustainable use of resources (the sea as a system of production);
3. to implement a strategy of prevention and mitigation of natural impacts (the sea as a risk factor).
In this framework, RITMARE represents a significant opportunity for the Italian marine scientific community to:
1. Increase synergies between those Research Bodies and University Consortia that are involved in marine research, facilitating the emergence of excellence and promoting cooperation;
2. Strengthen cooperation between the world of research and Italian Industry in two complementary directions: inducing the research community to respond to the needs of industry and encouraging the latter to contribute to a relaunch of the technologies available to marine researchers;
3. Enhance Italian participation in European projects and initiatives, increasing the number of Italian scientists appointed as project coordinators and promoting participation in joint programmes (e.g. JPIs) where the resources made available by the participants are matched by contributions from the EU.
The objective over the five years is to set up a system for maritime research that is more internally cohesive, better coordinated with the international scientific community and more in tune with Italy's economic and industrial players.
Keywords
Impacts;
Habitat mapping;
Tagging;
Spatial planning;
VMS data;
Ecosystem approach;
Bivalve;
Indicators;
Fishing vessels;
Waste valorization;
Stock assessment;
Broodstocks;
Food web;
Genetic;
Aquaculture diversification;
Population dynamic;
Food safety;
Mollusc;
Aquaculture development;
Life cycle;
Growth rate;
Environmental impact;
Striped venus;
Fish biology;
Fish habitat;
Fisheries management;
Animal welfare;
Sustainability;
Fuel consumption;
Packaging;
Animal feed;
Cephalopod;
Engineering;
Waste water;
Shellfish;
Monitoring;
Algae;
Recruitment;
Open sea aquaculture;
Larval rearing;
Seabream;
Food products;
Protocol;
Fishing technology;
Seabass;
Climate change;
Fish products;
Risk assessment;
Parasite;
Diets;
Acoustic survey;
Fish;
Traceability;
Fish stocks;
Aquaculture management;
Fish meal replacement;
Marine Region
58
Southern Ionian Sea (GSA 21)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
51
Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1)
50
Sardinia (east) (GSA 11.2)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
7
Marine Region Map
