PROJECTS
| IO follows the principle of project development especially after 2000 as a major tool for introducing up-to-date methods and approaches, capacity building, raising the role of science in the sustainable management of the Black Sea ecosystem and resources, integration with the Black Sea and European scientific community. The projects developed by the scientific teams of the Institute are funded by budget subsidy (15 projects for 2007), by fund “Scientific Research” (8 projects for 2007) and by contracts with different national (11 projects for 2007)and international companies and organisations including ÅÑ, NATO, GEF/UNDP, UNESCO, etc. (14 projects for 2007). Recently IO have been coordinator of the following more important international projects: |
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- Centre for Sustainable Development and Management of the Black Sea region (5FP) |
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ARENA - A Regional Capacity Building and Networking Programme to Upgrade Monitoring and Forecasting Activity in the Black Sea (5FP) |
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ASCABOS - A Supporting Program for Capacity Building in the Black Sea Region towards Operational Status of Oceanographic Services (6FP) |
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More important projects developed in 2007 within the context of EU, NATO, UNESCO, etc. international programmers are the following: |
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| MPAs | MPAs Development of an Indicative Ecologically Coherent Network of Sub-tidal Marine Protected Areas in Bulgaria and Romania. |
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ELME European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems.
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SESAME Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem changes. |
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THRESHOLDS Minimum Social Standards across Europe. |
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BLACK SEA SCENE Black Sea Scientific Network, MARIS, Netehrlands.
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SPICOSA Science and Policy Integration for Coastal Ecosystem assessment, IFREMER, France. |
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IGSP Black Sea - Mediterranean Corridor during last 30 ky: Sea level change and human adaptation (IGCP – 521 UNESCO). |
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SIBEMA Scientific and Institutional Capacity Building for Implementing European Marine Policy in the Black Sea Region.
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SEADATANET Pan European Network for Ocean & Marine Data and Information Management. |
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ÅSONET European Sea Floor Observatory Network (7FP).
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ÅÑÎÎÐ European Coastal and Regional Seas Operational Observing and Forecasting Systems (6FP) |
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