Acronym ARIEL
Category
Aquaculture
Title Promoting small scale fisheries and aquaculture transnational networking in Adriatic-Ionian macroregion Programme Interreg V
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 European
Coordinator institution
CNR-IRBIM - National Research Council; Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (Italy)
Institutions involved
IOF - Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (Croatia) ,
NA - Marche Region (Italy) ,
NA - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Montenegro) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
RERA SD - Regional Development Agency of Split-Dalmatia (Croatia) ,
NA - Sicilian Region (Italy) ,
NA - University of Montenegro (Montenegro) ,
Start year 2018 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 1,249,235 Website https://ariel.adrioninterreg.eu/ Summary Small-scale fishery (SSF) and aquaculture (AQ) are emergent sectors and represent key drivers for the sustainable growth of Adriatic-Ionian (AI) communities Beside their socio-economic importance, these sectors are composed of several micro-companies, providing an atomized entrepreneurial landscape and tending to be marginalized in decision-making processes. SSF and AQ are currently facing common challenges: key enabling technologies and capacity creation, improved
technological and market researches for more cost-effective and sustainable solutions, resources co-management, science-based policies, improved biological and production data collection and assessment, viability and sustainability of ecosystem function. ARIEL aims to promote technological and non-technological solutions for innovation of SSF and AQ among scientists-policy-makers-entrepreneurs, acting as a knowledge network and taking into account in a single frame the complex ecological, economic and societal challenges. ARIEL will develop capacity-building actions for policy makers for the adoption of a science-based approach to improve resources co-management and develop appropriate supporting schemes to stimulate actors clustering. Project activities will lead to strategic and operational guidelines to promote open innovation in SSF and AQ led by research institutes, facilitated by policy makers, endorsed by entrepreneurs and recognized by consumers. ARIEL will promote uptake in small scale fisheries and aquaculture of open innovation led research, facilitated by policy and endorsed by operators involving multiple-skills organizations from Italy, Croatia, Montenegro and Greece able to strategically/operationally tackle the complex challenges of SSF and AQ sectors growth in the Adriatic-Ionian Region and able to identify key innovation drivers for policy and research as well as ensure project results durability and transferability.
Keywords
Small scale fisheries;
Sustainability;
Aquaculture management;
Fisheries management;
Marine Region
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
4
Marine Region Map
