FP7 - COCONET project
Programme: FP7
Duration: 2011-2014
Total budget: € 9.000.000
Web site: http://www.coconet-fp7.eu/
Summary:
The main object of this project is the collation, analysis and integration of current information to design Marine Protected Areas networks by adopting a holistic approach, coupling environmental protection and clean energy production as an important challenge for the Mediterranean and Black Seas, providing an opportunity for exploring new ecological cost-benefit methods such as those proposed by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study.
The foreseen Pilot Projects represent the practical test of the principles developed during the initial part of the project, and will allow to refine them. The Pilot Projects aim to describe the ecological structure of whole areas as a single ecosystem and to ascertain the inter-connectivity within their boundaries, based on shared biodiversity features at different scales (community, population, species, genes).
Contact person in ISMAR: boero@unisalento.it - f.trincardi@bo.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMAR) Italy
- CONISMA Italy
- 3E Belgium
- AEGEAN Greece
- CLU Italy
- CNRS France
- COISPA Italy
- CSIC Spain
- DTU AQUA Denmark
- GEOECOMAR Romania
- HCMR-IOO Greece
- IBER-BAS Bulgaria
- IEO Spain
- UC-IH CANTABRIA Spain
- INAT Tunisia
- INCDM Romania
- IOLR Israel
- IU Turkey
- METU Turkey
- MHI Ukraine
- NCB United Kingdom
- NEA Georgia
- NENUPHAR France
- NERSC Norwey
- NIOF Egypt
- OBIBSS Ukraine
- SIO RAS Russia
- UNIZD Croatia
- UNIZKM Albania
- UoM Malta
- IBMK Montenegro
- UROS Germany
- USOF Bulgaria
- USTV France
- IO-BAS Bulgaria
- UkrSCES Ukraine
- IBSS NASU Ukraine
- RSHU Russia
- SNU-FF Turkey
