KEN Marine Biodiversity Partners

A-AAGORA

Blueprint for Atlantic-Arctic Agora on cross-sectoral cooperation for restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems and increased climate resilience through transformative innovation. 

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ACT Now

Advancing understanding of Cumulative Impacts on European marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services for human wellbeing.

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B-USEFUL

B-USEFUL is a five-year EU-funded project aiming to create user-oriented Solutions for improved monitoring and  management of biodiversity and ecosystem services in vulnerable European Seas

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BICOME

The BiCOME project will develop and demonstrate that Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs), relevant for scientific and monitoring applications, can be obtained from state-of-the-art remotely sensed reflectance close to the shoreline, and that they can be scalable globally. By addressing relevant scientific and societal problems.

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BioAgora

BioAgora is a five-year EU-funded project aiming to support sustainable transformation for biodiversity in Europe. t aims to connect research results on biodiversity to the needs of policy-making in a targeted dialogue between scientists, other knowledge holders and policy actors.

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BIOcean5D

BIOcean5D seeks to explore marine life and how it changes across 5 dimensions: 3-dimensional space, time, and human impact.

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Blue4all

BLUE4ALL will develop science-based tools for achieving Marine Protected Areas that meet conservation and restoration objectives, while addressing the needs and concerns of all stakeholders.

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Blue Connect

The BLUE CONNECT is a Mission Ocean funded project that addresses the urgent need to protect and restore marine habitats and ecosystems and to reach ambitious EU and global protection and restoration targets by 2030.

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Bridge-BS

BRIDGE-BS aims to advance the Black Sea’s marine research and innovation to co-develop Blue Growth pathways under multi-stressors for the sustainable utilization of ecosystem services. To do so it will develop an ecosystem-based management framework to enable policy uptake and foster citizen engagement.

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CIBBRiNA

Working collaboratively as fishers, authorities, scientists, and other relevant stakeholders to minimise bycatch of Endangered, Threatened and Protected species in the North-East Atlantic, Baltic, and Mediterranean.

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Black Sea CONNECT

Black Sea CONNECT (2019–2023) drives efforts for a healthy, resilient, and better-valued Black Sea, with its legacy continuing through the Black Sea SRIA Implementation Plan.

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CO-OP4CBD

CO-OP4CBD will enhance coordination within the European Union (EU) in advancing the implementation of the Convention of Biological Diversity by harnessing effectively the knowledge of EU experts.

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CREATE

Concepts for reducing the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and uses on marine ecosystems and biodiversity

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DiverSea

DiverSea visualizes key environmental and socio-economic indicators with quantified scenarios for societal and functional biodiversity interaction, connections of biodiversity to ecosystem functions and services.

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DuneFront

'DuneFront' aims to enhance coastal protection and safety by optimizing solutions that make use of a combination of natural elements (dunes) and man-made hard structures (seawalls).

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EcoScope

Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems

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GES4SEAS

Achieving good environmental status for maintaining ecosystem services by assessing integrated impact of cumulative pressures. 

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Illiad

The Iliad consortium will develop virtual representations of the sea that will integrate earth observing, modelling and digital infrastructures to provide predictions of future developments "at sea".

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ELIFE

The project ELIFE aims at improving the conservation of elasmobranch species (sharks and rays) promoting best conservation practices in the context of the EU professional fishing, in the Mediterranean Sea, carrying out pilot and demonstrative actions in Italian and Greek harbours.

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Marco-Bolo


Funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme (along with UKRI), MARCO-BOLO is a €7.3 million, 4-year project that will strengthen European marine, coastal and freshwater biodiversity observation to understand and restore ocean health.

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Marine Beacon

Marine Beacon is an EU funded project that will address gaps in our current understanding of how fisheries bycatch impacts protected, endangered and threatened species.

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Marine Sabres

Integrating marine biodiversity conservation with a resilient blue economy.

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MiTHo

MiTHo aims at developing innovative EO-based multistressor cumulative hazard indexes, by exploiting the latest EO-based products achieved within the ESA Ocean Science cluster projects.

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MSP4BIO develops and demonstrates the ways in which knowledge-based Marine Spatial Planning becomes a vehicle and a tool for the protection and recovery of marine ecosystems.

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From data to knowledge. OBAMA-NEXT (Observing and Mapping Marine Ecosystems) will support sustainable marine conservation strategies and policies, through carefully crafted and tested information products.

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Respin

REinforcing Science-Policy INterfaces for integrated biodiversity and climate knowledge and policies.

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REST-COAST

Large scale RESToration of COASTal ecosystems through rivers to sea connectivity.

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SEAwise

SEAwise is an international project paving the way for the implementation of Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) in Europe.

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SURIMI

The European Union’s (EU) Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’ by 2030, aims to preserve ocean health and biodiversity while also promoting a sustainable blue economy.

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TETTRIs

Transforming European Taxonomy through Training, Research and Innovations

A contribution of the taxonomic community gathered around CETAF, the Consortium of European taxonomic facilities, to provide knowledge, systems and services to tackle biodiversity loss

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