COCONET
"Towards COast to COast NETworks of marine protected areas ( from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential."
| Coordinatore | CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Organization address
address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Totale costo | 11˙323˙365 € |
| EC contributo | 9˙000˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
| Code Call | FP7-OCEAN-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-IP-SICA |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-02-01 - 2016-01-31 |
Partecipanti
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| 1 |
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Organization address
address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | coordinator | 1˙351˙795.79 |
| 2 |
CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE SCIENZE DEL MARE
Organization address
address: PIAZZALE FLAMINIO 9 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 1˙121˙759.60 |
| 3 |
HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH
Organization address
address: 46,7th avenue Athens-Sounio, (Mavro Lithari) contact info |
EL (ANAVISSOS ATTIKI) | participant | 635˙000.00 |
| 4 |
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Organization address
address: CALLE SERRANO 117 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 594˙199.75 |
| 5 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 569˙294.19 |
| 6 |
ISTANBUL UNIVERSITESI
Organization address
address: ISTANBUL UNIVERSITESI CENTER CAMPUS BEYAZIT EMINONU contact info |
TR (ISTANBUL) | participant | 435˙797.02 |
| 7 |
NATUREBUREAU LIMITED
Organization address
address: Kingfisher Court 36 contact info |
UK (Newbury) | participant | 395˙000.00 |
| 8 |
CLU srl
Organization address
address: VIA TOGLIATTI 17/C contact info |
IT (Castelfranco Emilia (MO)) | participant | 357˙325.00 |
| 9 |
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE MARINA GRIGORE ANTIPA
Organization address
address: MAMAIA BLVD. 300 contact info |
RO (CONSTANTA) | participant | 300˙000.00 |
| 10 |
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Organization address
address: Parvi Maj Street 40 contact info |
BG (VARNA) | participant | 240˙000.00 |
| 11 |
STIFTELSEN NANSEN SENTER FOR MILJOOG FJERNMALING
Organization address
address: THORMOHLENSGATE 47 contact info |
NO (BERGEN) | participant | 230˙000.00 |
| 12 |
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Anker Engelundsvej 1, Building 101A contact info |
DK (KONGENS LYNGBY) | participant | 200˙000.00 |
| 13 |
MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DUMLUPINAR BULVARI 1 contact info |
TR (ANKARA) | participant | 199˙300.40 |
| 14 |
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU GEOLOGIE SI GEOECOLOGIE MARINA-GEOECOMAR
Organization address
address: DIMITRIE ONCIUL STREET 23-25 contact info |
RO (BUCHAREST) | participant | 177˙500.00 |
| 15 |
UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC CENTRE OF ECOLOGY OF THE SEA
Organization address
address: FRANTSUZSKY BLVD. 89 contact info |
UA (ODESSA) | participant | 155˙000.00 |
| 16 |
NENUPHAR SARL
Organization address
address: RUE DU FAUBOURG DE DOUAI 128 contact info |
FR (LILLE) | participant | 130˙000.00 |
| 17 |
ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED
Organization address
address: TEL SHIKMONA contact info |
IL (HAIFA) | participant | 122˙675.00 |
| 18 |
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
Organization address
address: AVENIDA DE LOS CASTROS S/N contact info |
ES (SANTANDER) | participant | 122˙626.66 |
| 19 |
UNIVERSITA TA MALTA
Organization address
address: University Campus, Tal-Qroqq contact info |
MT (MSIDA) | participant | 120˙000.00 |
| 20 |
3E N.V.
Organization address
address: Vaartstraat 61 contact info |
BE (Brussels) | participant | 115˙000.00 |
| 21 |
P.P. SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Organization address
address: Nakhimovsky Ave. 36 contact info |
RU (MOSCOW) | participant | 115˙000.00 |
| 22 |
ODESSA BRANCH INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF SOUTHERNS SEAS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
Organization address
address: PUSHKINSKA 37 contact info |
UA (ODESSA) | participant | 114˙293.18 |
| 23 |
FONDACIONI ZOJA E KESHILLIT TE MIRE
Organization address
address: RRUGA DRITAN HOXHA contact info |
AL (TIRANA) | participant | 110˙000.00 |
| 24 |
UNIVERSITE DU SUD TOULON VAR
Organization address
address: AVENUE DE L'UNIVERSITE contact info |
FR (LA GARDE CEDEX) | participant | 100˙200.00 |
| 25 |
UNIVERSITAET ROSTOCK
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITATSPLATZ 1 contact info |
DE (ROSTOCK) | participant | 90˙100.00 |
| 26 |
Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie
Organization address
address: Avenue Charles Nicolle 43 contact info |
TN (Tunis) | participant | 85˙000.00 |
| 27 |
University Mohammed V-Agdal
Organization address
address: RUE MICHLIFEN 3 contact info |
MA (Rabat) | participant | 85˙000.00 |
| 28 |
COISPA TECNOLOGIA & RICERCA SCARL
Organization address
address: VIA DEI TRULLI 18-20 contact info |
IT (BARI) | participant | 80˙000.00 |
| 29 |
INSTITUT PO BIORAZNOOBRAZIE I EKOSISTEMNI IZSLEDVANIYA BALGARSKA AKADEMIYA NA NAUKITE
Organization address
address: UL. GAGARIN 2 contact info |
BG (SOFIA) | participant | 80˙000.00 |
| 30 |
INSTITUTO ESPANOL DE OCEANOGRAFIA
Organization address
address: Avenida de Brasil 31 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 80˙000.00 |
| 31 |
PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOU
Organization address
address: LOFOS PANEPISTIMIOU contact info |
EL (MYTILINI) | participant | 80˙000.00 |
| 32 |
University of Zadar
Organization address
address: Ulica Mihovila Pavlinovica bb contact info |
HR (Zadar) | participant | 80˙000.00 |
| 33 |
A.O. KOVALEVSKIY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF SOUTHERN SEAS
Organization address
address: NAKHIMOV AVENUE 2 contact info |
UA (SEVASTOPOL) | participant | 70˙265.07 |
| 34 |
MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE - UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Organization address
address: KAPITANSKAYA STR. 2 contact info |
UA (SEVASTOPOL) | participant | 67˙373.34 |
| 35 |
SINOP UNIVERSITY*SINOP FISHERIES FACULTY SNU FF
Organization address
address: SINOP UNIVERSITY RECTORATE contact info |
TR (SINOP) | participant | 49˙995.00 |
| 36 |
THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
Organization address
address: DAVID AGMASHENEBELI AVENUE 150 contact info |
GE (TBILISI) | participant | 40˙500.00 |
| 37 |
JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA
Organization address
address: CETINJSKA 2 contact info |
ME (PODGORICA) | participant | 40˙000.00 |
| 38 |
SOFIISKI UNIVERSITET SVETI KLIMENT OHRIDSKI
Organization address
address: Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. 15 contact info |
BG (SOFIA) | participant | 40˙000.00 |
| 39 |
RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: MALOOKHTINSKY PROSPEKT 98 contact info |
RU (ST PETERSBURG) | participant | 20˙000.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Environmental policies focus on protecting habitats valuable for their biodiversity, as well as producing energy in cleaner ways. The establishment of Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks and installing Offshore Wind Farms (OWF) are important ways to achieve these goals. The protection and management of marine biodiversity has focused on placing MPAs in areas important for biodiversity. This has proved successful within the MPAs, but had little impact beyond their boundaries. In the highly populated Mediterranean and the Black Seas, bordered by many range states, the declaration of extensive MPAs is unlikely at present, so limiting the bearing of protection. The establishment of MPAs networks can cope with this obstacle but, to be effective, such networks must be based on solid scientific knowledge and properly managed (not merely “paper parks”). OWF, meanwhile, must be placed where the winds are suitable for producing power, but they should not have any significant impact on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, or on human activities. The project will have two main themes: 1 - identify prospective networks of existing or potential MPAs in the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, shifting from a local perspective (centred on single MPAs) to the regional level (network of MPAs) and finally the basin scale (network of networks). The identification of the physical and biological connections among MPAs will elucidate the patterns and processes of biodiversity distribution. Measures to improve protection schemes will be suggested, based on maintaining effective exchanges (biological and hydrological) between protected areas. The national coastal focus of existing MPAs will be widened to both off shore and deep sea habitats, incorporating them into the networks through examination of current legislation, to find legal solutions to set up transboundary MPAs. 2 - explore where OWF might be established, producing an enriched wind atlas both for the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. OWF locations will avoid too sensitive habitats but the possibility for them to act as stepping-stones through MPAs, without interfering much with human activities, will be evaluated. Socioeconomic studies employing ecosystem services valuation methods to develop sustainable approaches for both MPA and OWF development will also be carried out, to complement the ecological and technological parts of the project, so as to provide guidelines to design, manage and monitor networks of MPAs and OWF. Two pilot projects (one in the Mediterranean Sea and one in the Black Sea) will test in the field the assumptions of theoretical approaches, based on previous knowledge, to find emerging properties in what we already know, in the light of the needs of the project. The project covers many countries and involves researchers across a vast array of subjects, in order to achieve a much-needed holistic approach to environmental protection. It will help to integrate the Mediterranean and Black Seas scientific communities through intense collective activities, combined with strong communications with stakeholders and the public at large. Consequently, the project will create a permanent network of excellent researchers (with cross fertilization and further capacity building) that will also work together also in the future, making their expertise available to their countries and to the European Union.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
EU researchers are pioneering a new approach to international marine conservation that incorporates networks of reserves and capacity for energy generation.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Biodiversity conservation and clean power are two pressing concerns for modern policymakers. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are currently the best approach for marine conservation, while offshore wind farms (OWFs) offer clean power in the marine environment.
The project http://www.coconet-fp7.eu/ (COCONET) (Towards coast to coast networks of marine protected areas (from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential) is producing guidelines to establish networks of MPAs in the Mediterranean and Black Seas based on natural connections. COCONET will also produce a wind atlas of both basins in preparation for establishing OWFs in the MPA networks.
The project started by analysing whether MPA networks will be feasible in these seas, based on literature reviews, workshops and interviews. Researchers also looked at the environmental impact of OWFs and how to minimise it.
MPA networks offer improved biodiversity conservation; therefore, project partners are identifying a set of locations that are connected with each other, sharing common ecosystem features. Guidelines will be drawn up for establishing coherent networks of MPAs in the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Two pilot projects have already been set up for the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea. These projects are intended to be the areas where concepts developed by COCONET can be applied in the real world. COCONET has used these pilot areas to gather biological, geological and oceanographic data about how current MPAs are connected.
COCONET will help to conserve Europe's natural heritage by protecting vulnerable marine ecosystems and the plant and animal species they contain. In addition, it will encourage new populations to develop and help combat global warming by promoting clean energy through the building of OWFs.
Concerning the cells of ecosystem functioning, based on realized connectivity, these are the conservation units that will have to be employed to design the networks. The cells are parts of the marine space that are highly connected by currents, where the connections among populations are realized. The concept requires knowledge of physical oceanography and of ecology and biology, so reaching the holistic approach invoked by the call.
The other concept is the link of the descriptors of Good Environmental Status of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as the guidelines to design and assess the efficacy of the networks. This will not require further directives, since the description of GES fits perfectly with the aims of the networks. In synthesis, the Networks of MPAs should be the tool to enforce and to monitor the efficacy of the Good Environmental Status, having the MPAs as the nodes of enforcement and control, along with other local and international authorities.
The identification of the Cells of Ecosystem Functioning is a pre-requisite for the guidelines, and the actual knowledge is still too fragmented to allow for the identification of these units in both basins.