Objectives:

To build and enhance capacity for trans-disciplinary research and application building in relation to ICZM issues within the PEGASO Consortium.

To identify the training needs of key end user groups and to respond by designing and delivering appropriate materials so that the ICZM Governance Platform can be built and used.

To foster knowledge exchange amongst the consortium members and their wider circle of participants and collaborators, so that future funding bids can be made and the ICZM Platform sustained and developed.

To support the development of sustainability science in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea countries, to ensure good collaborations south-south and the building of capacity to assess decision makers.

Participants:

UAB, UPO, PLAN BLEU, IFREMER, ACRI EC, PAP RAC, IUCN, UNOTT, VLIZ, UNIV CA´ FOSCARI, JRC, HCMR, MEDCOAST, DDNI, UM5a, AREA ED, NIOF, UOB, MHI, TDV, NARSS, BSC PS

Description of work:

Task 6.1. Building and enhancing capacity internally.

Task 6.2. Building and enhancing capacity with end users.

Task 6.3. Sustaining capacity.