SICOMAR plus project
Programme: INTERREG Italy-France Maritime 2014-2020
Priority: 2 – Protection and valorization of natural and cultural resources and risk management
Project title: Transborder System for Safety at Sea against the Risks of Navigation and for the Protection of the Marine Environment plus
Acronym: SICOMAR plus
Duration: 01/06/2018 – 31/04/2021
Total budget: EUR 6.688.230
ISMAR budget: EUR 413.076
Web site: http://interreg-maritime.eu/it/web/sicomarplus
Summary:
The SICOMAR plus project addresses the common challenge of navigation safety and quality of the transboundary marine environment. The project's overall objective is to reduce the risks associated with navigation accidents and their consequences on human life, goods and the environment. It will create a coordinated system of governance tools, highly technologically innovative surveillance methods and new safety services at sea. The project intends to launch shared strategic planning activities which will identify navigation safety solutions in high-risk marine zones of the cooperation area by setting up two joint monitoring plans for navigation and pilotage safety. The project provides for investments to improve the coverage of monitoring networks, increase the effectiveness of risk reduction forecasting systems, safety at sea and environmental protection services and establish data sharing and interoperability. The main actors and recipients will be the Public Administrations and their agencies, research centres, citizens, private economic operators and environmental associations. The integrated transborder approach concerns many aspects: the integration of data monitoring, sharing networks and systems, the implementation of reduced uncertainty forecast models and the demonstration of piloting and emergency management services. Communication initiatives will include raising the awareness of the group targets involved with respect to the integrated management of safety at sea and training maritime personnel and stakeholders. The innovative aspect is based on both the method and the tools: coordination of governance tools, technologically advanced surveillance methods and new safety services at sea.
Contact person within ISMAR: marcello.magaldi@sp.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Regione Toscana (Italy)
- Consorzio Laboratorio di Monitoraggio e Modellistica Ambientale per lo sviluppo sostenibile (Italy)
- Université de Toulon (France)
- Institut FMES (France)
- Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente Ligure (Italy)
- Fondazione CIMA – Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale (Italy)
- Università degli studi di Genova (Italy)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
- Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente della Sardegna (Italy)
- Parco Nazionale dell’Arcipelago di La Maddalena (Italy)
- Comando Generale del Corpo delle Capitanerie di Porto – Guardia Costiera (Italy)
- Office de l’Environnement de la Corse (France)
- Institut Français de Recherche et d’Exploitation de la MER – IFREMER (France)
- Service d’incendie et de secours de la Haute-Corse – SDIS 2B (France)
- Communauté des Communes Golfe de Saint-Tropez (France)
- Institut méditerranéen des hautes études stratégiques (France)
