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🌊 #WCSG2024 Highlights 🌊 👉🏻Last week BLUE4ALL showcased how #MPAs drive sustainable governance, offering new methods for conservation and restoration goals. 👇🏻Learn more about #BLUE4ALL by tapping on the post below 👇🏻 #MPAs #SustainableGovernance #BlueEconomy #BLUE4ALL

#MercatorOcean took the floor at the "High Level Event on Ocean Action: Immersed in Change"! ⬇️ Our Director General, Pierre Bahurel, joined a panel discussion on "Satellite Technology for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Ocean." 🛰️ The panel highlighted the critical role of satellite and in situ observations in monitoring the Ocean. By integrating these observations with models, we can create a comprehensive digital representation of the Ocean, paving the way for the development of the EDITO - European Digital Twin Ocean 🌐🌊 This innovative approach is essential for policymakers and decision-makers, providing them with the tools needed to make informed decisions about conservation, mitigation, and adaptation strategies. As we look ahead to the Third UN Ocean Conference in June 2025, events like this foster the exchange of best practices and successful experiences related to Ocean governance and health, driving forward national, regional, and global solutions. #SustainableOcean #UNOceanConference #UNOC25 #BlueEconomy

🌊 Mission Ocean: A Pathway to Restoring Our Ocean and Waters by 2030 🌊 The EU's Mission Ocean initiative is a bold and necessary step toward addressing the critical need to restore the health of our oceans and waters by 2030. Through innovative research, citizen engagement, and blue investments, this initiative aims to protect marine ecosystems, improve biodiversity, and secure the sustainable use of marine resources. 🌍🌿 Central to this mission is the creation of the European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO), a powerful digital model that will allow for real-time monitoring, simulations, and predictions of oceanic and human interactions. By combining natural and socio-economic data, EU DTO will play a pivotal role in understanding and addressing the complexities of our marine environments. 💡 At SEADITO, we are proud to be part of this endeavor. SEADITO contributes to the mission by developing advanced social-ecological models that help integrate human activities with marine spatial planning. Our project’s aim is to test, calibrate, and validate these models through case studies in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, and Mediterranean regions, ensuring they align with the EU DTO vision. 🌊🔬 Together, we are taking critical steps toward a more sustainable and resilient ocean future. #MissionOcean #EUDTO #BlueEconomy #SustainableOceans #MarineManagement #SEADITO Aalborg University SINTEF 📸Photo: Publication Office of the European Union

💯 Our fifth opinion piece for Revista Visão is about the emergent blue carbon market ✅ +ATLANTIC is honoured to support Visão, renowned for its comprehensive and high-quality coverage across various areas, addressing pressing ocean problems, using science and innovation also to help increase literacy and build a bluer society 🌊 On our March delivery, Joao Fonseca Ribeiro, CEO of Blue Geo Lighthouse - BIGLE, a partner of +ATLANTIC, talks about the need to invest in ocean observation and monitoring to support an effective blue carbon market 👉 Find out more and read “The blue carbon opportunity in Portugal”: https://lnkd.in/d5tMEuXG #BlueCarbon #CarbonCapture #CarbonMarket #CarbonStorage #ClimateChange #ClimateMitigation #EUGreenDeal #OceanObservation #Sustainability #SDG14 #OceanGovernance #OceanManagement #MarineScience #OceanLiteracy #Outreach #ScienceCommunication #SciComm

A new set of tools designed to assess the regional vulnerability of European mountain regions: https://lnkd.in/eZv2ww3S 💡Gain insights into mountain communities' challenges in the context of climate change and adaptation and mitigation efforts! Brought to you by the MOVING - Mountain Valorisation through Interconnectedness and Green Growth project

[🏆 AWARD] 📢 Are you an NGO, private company, research institute, school, or other organization implementing activities involving citizens to protect the Mediterranean basin? If yes, we invite you to participate in the Society4MedAward, recently launched by the EU-funded BlueMissionMed Project in collaboration with the European Commission, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, FVA New Media Research, La Saison Bleue, and WWF. This award aims to celebrate initiatives involving citizens in transformative actions within two categories: 🌊 Awareness and Communication Campaigns/Activities 🌊 Citizen Science 🌟 The award represents an opportunity to showcase the societal commitments of Mediterranean organizations toward the Mission and to present actions and initiatives that contribute to the Mission Ocean’s objectives. ⏰ Deadline: 30 September ➕ More info: shorturl.at/ZTwsH #Society4Med #EUmission #MissionOcean #BlueMissionMed #CitizenScience #MediterraneanProtection #mediterraneancities #localauthorities Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche FVA New Media Research Ifremer CSIC SDG4MED MedCities / MedCités BUSINESSMED - Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises Ecorys Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) La Saison Bleue MedCruise WWF Mediterranean Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) European Research Executive Agency (REA) CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency Mission Ocean

☄ A week ago, the insightful, action-oriented Blue Mission Banos Project #bluemissionbanos #Arena2 lighthouse event took place with its objective to facilitate the development of a sustainable, carbon-neutral, and circular blue economy in the Baltic and North Sea by connecting national, regional, and transnational actors from policy, industry, science and the public, creating a conducive governance model to innovation.
. We are glad that also our Latvian partners represented the MSP-GREEN project and highlighted the various basin-level perspective findings on the European #GreenDeal topicality in respect to the #marine environment. During the workshop session on “Policy coherence as a platform for better integration on marine conservation in MSP and sectoral policies: Regional pilots and examples” our #Baltic sea partners Vides aizsardzības un reģionālās attīstības ministrija, representative Kristīne Kedo (The Head of Spatial Planning and Policy Unit) and project contributing team members Marta Štube, Anete Bērziņa, Annija Danenberga outlined in presentation the identification of new #actions in their national setting to be performed fostering #MSP contribution to Green Deal. The operationalisation of the national maritime spatial planning legislation and a coordinated approach between the sectors is at most importance, given the playground perspective of actor-based interest multiplicity. 👩🎓 👨🌾 🕵♀️ 👷♂️ 💭 Quoting directly: "MSP process itself is a playground to turn challenges into opportunities and ensure the best possible deal for sustainable development at our sea!" 🗺 Whilst the Blue Mission Banos Project #bluemissionbanosevent comprehensively aimed to cover the question "What are ways to look at the sea basin as a whole ?", ranging from priorities and actions to be set, considering the need for reconciliation of policy objectives at EU level to taking local action of implementing nature-based solutions together with coastal communities, we aim to continue this discussion during our project #regional sea-basin #workshops by reviewing MSP - GREEN developed recommendations! For the regional Baltic sea basin workshop to be held on the 17th of September 2024 (back-to-back with HELCOM-VASAB MSP Working Group), we invite to express your interest participating by following the link: ▶ https://lnkd.in/diWkKwjd More to follow soon (also for other EU sea basins) But project-wise, that's not it! There are exiting news awaiting next week already ⛴ when we will dive into our Working Package 3 deliverables, and get to know what other project participating country representatives have worked upon from context-specific #challenges identified to new MSP #actions proposed! European Commission | CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency If you missed the event itself, you can catch the opening and closing sessions on YouTube: https://shorturl.at/ktFU4

The #100KTREEs Consortium in Prague at EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme for the midterm review meeting in the presence of the Project Officer Chiara Solimini and the two external reviewers. We live in an era where climate change mitigation and adaptation represent a daily challenge that requires urgent measures. Day after day we realize the importance of a tool like #100KTREEs supporting #decisionmakers and #planners in designing #green in #cities and in assessing the value of #ecosystemservices that #trees offer. We return from the Prague meeting more motivated than ever and with important ideas to continue in the second part of the project and to achieve the expected results. www.100ktrees.eu EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme DHI, BitaGreen, EcoTree France, GISIG Geographical Information Systems International Group, EUROSENSE, @CWare, UrbanDigital.dk, @NDConsult, @OTF, @SDA

🎉 We would like to say a big thanks to the #ISE community as we hit 2,000 followers. Interreg Euro-MED Programme Regione Emilia-Romagna Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) ADEME Open Space Collective Directorate for European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adriatic Ionian Euroregion Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds of the Republic of Croatia MedWaves Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya BETA Technological Center REVOLVE Dynamic Vision PC. CENER 21 - Center for Energy, Environment and Resources ACR+ | Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management Università degli Studi di Siena MIO-ECSDE Waste Agency of Catalonia Green Synergy Cluster Pôle Mer Méditerranée

🌊Call for Papers! #3. Maritime Spatial Planning and Environmental Protection. This is the theme of the 3rd Topic of the BCThubs International Conference “Widening the Big Blue Horizon”, which will take place at Volos, Greece on December 4-6, 2024. 🔍 Focus Areas of the topic: • The role of Maritime Spatial Planning in protecting marine environments and Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH). • Adaptive technologies for climate change as tools for the preservation of the marine environment. • How promoting accessibility to UCH contributes to the protection of the marine environment. 📝 Don’t miss this opportunity and Submit your Abstract today! 📅 Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline: June 17, 2024 Conference Date: December 4-6, 2024 Join us and be part in shaping the uture on promoting and protecting Underwater Cultural Heritage, through accessibility and development of a sustainable blue tourism economy. 🌊 🏛️ 📧 Submit Your Abstract via email to conference@bcthubs.eu For more details, visit our website: www.bcthubs.eu/conference #underwaterheritage #culturalconservation #InnovativeTechnology #sustainablestrategies #HorizonEurope #HorizonEurope #blueculturetechnologies #excellencehubs #ResearchImpactEU #EUinnovation European Research Executive Agency (REA) EU Science, Research and Innovation