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Newsletter #8 2018

MSP events in 2018

MSP for Islands Workshop -presentations and photos availableThe DG MARE workshop that took place on11 September attracted over 40participants representing islands fromacross Europe and the Outermost Regions.Panel discussions and two interactivesessions were held on the topics of 'Specificchallenges for implementing MSP forislands' and 'Blue Growth opportunities forislands'. A full workshop report will bepublished in the coming weeks, based onthe workshop briefing paper. Thepresentations and photos are nowavailable. Read more..

MSP for Blue Growth Webinar SeriesThe MSP Platform is organising a webinarseries on the MSP for Blue Growth Studypublished earlier this year. The study givesinformation on how MSP can assistMember States to foster the potential forsustainable Blue Growth. Each webinar inthis series will introduce participants toone of the three study components:Handbook for Visions in MSP, Current andFuture Spatial Demands of Key MaritimeSectors and Handbook on developingindicators for MSP. Read more..

Latest research for Gulf of BothniaGain an overview on recent researchundertaken to promote the sustainabledevelopment of the Gulf of Bothnia aspresented during the SmartSea seminar‚Future of the Gulf of Bothnia‘ which tookplace on 18-19 September in Vaasa,Finland. Sessions covered climate change,MSP and blue growth, technologies andEBM. All presentations are available onlineand the conference video recordings willbe published soon. Read more..

Joint BONUS HELCOM ConferenceBONUS and HELCOM are joining forces inorganising a conference on 6 November inCopenhagen, Denmark to strengthen theirsynergies together with OSPAR, ICES andJPI Oceans. The conference will discussnew research results, future researchpriorities and policy needs. Read more..

ICES Annual ConferenceICES organised 18 theme sessions duringits annual conference on 24-27 September2018. One of the sessions focused on theMSP visions and indicators. Theparticipants list has been published,session abstracts and posters are availablehere and the keynote speeches can beviewed here. The presentations willbecome available soon. Read more..

MSP ProjectsPanBalticScope Planning Forum On 26 September, the 'Planning Forum forcross-border cooperation' of PanBalticScopetook place. The Forum discussed currentnational and transnational MSP issues, andguides and informs the other activities in PanBaltic Scope. The activities present their workin the Forum and test their deliverables to getfeedback. Read more..

Ecoresponsibility for maritime transportdeclaration signed WWF France, on behalf of the PHAROS4MPAsproject, co-signed a charter ofecoresponsibility for maritime transportactivity. The charter aims at mitigatingthe ferries' impact o n marine wildlife whencommuting between Marseille and Corsica,which includes waste recovery, fuelconsumption decrease, and staff andpassengers training on environmental issues.The PHAROS4MPAs project will use this thisinitial step towards more sustainablemaritime transport activity as a positive casestudy for the global recommendations (to beissued in Spring 2019) on the necessaryp r a c t i c a l collaboration betweenMediterranean MPAs and 8 maritime sectors,including maritime traffic. Read more..

SEAPLANSPACE meetingThe project 'Marine spatial planninginstruments for sustainable marinegovernance' will organise its first jointmeeting on 18 October in Sopot, Poland. Theproject aims at increasing the know-how andknowledge on sustainable marine governanceof the people engaged in maritime issues andproblems in their daily work. The mainvehicles serving this purpose are: training andnetworking. Agenda topics will includestakeholder involvement, training, multi-useand conflict resolution. Read more..

22 'Blue projects' receive EMFF fundingGrant agreements are currently being draftedfor projects sharing €14.5 million from a callfor proposals launched to accelerate thedeployment of a sustainable blue economyacross the EU and the Mediterranean. Theprojects cover a wider ange of topicsincluding innovation (de-risking investment indemonstration projects), environment(fighting marine litter and restoringecosystems), cooperation for a sustainableblue economy and better ocean governancein the Mediterranean sea basin. Read more..

PADDLE Summer SchoolThe project organised a summer school from3 to 7 September 2018 in Brest, France.General lectures were given by internationalexperts in the field of MSP and disciplinesoffering tools for informed decision-making

and lessons learnt were immediately tested inaction, through the MSP Challenge. Readmore..

SIMNORAT stakeholder engagementWorkshop The workshop 'Preventing and ManagingCoastal Risks: the Contribution of MSP' will beorganised on 25 October in Nantes, France. Itwill focus on governance, MSP and BlueGrowth. Read more..

MSP funding opportunities#BlueInvest, AtlanticOn 23 October in Vigo, Spain, the BlueInvest match-making event will bringtogether innovators and investors to boostthe economic potential of the ocean whileprotecting its marine resources. The eventwill gather innovators, investors,researchers, SMEs, NGOs, authorities andrepresentatives of the civil society from theAtlantic region. Blue Invest in the Atlantic ispart of the Atlantic Stakeholder Platformconference, the annual meeting point foreveryone involved in designing the AtlanticBlue Economy. Read more..

Call for Project Platforms BalticThe second call for project platforms byInterreg Baltic Sea Region is open topartners from ongoing Interreg Baltic SeaRegion projects until 31 January 2019. Themain aim of project platforms is to increasethe impact of Interreg Baltic Sea Region'sand other EU-funded projects in the area.One of the topics is management of marinespace. Read more..

Call for MSP projects The EMFF Call for Proposals for MSP projectsis still open until 31 October. Thegeographical areas covered by this callinclude the Atlantic, the Black Sea and theMediterranean. Read more..

MSP Practices Improving the co-existence of OffshoreEnergy Installations & Shipping Under the NorthSEE project, a report has beenpublished on the topic of navigational riskassessments (NRA) conducted bynavigational safety authorities in the NorthSea countries. An NRA is commissioned byOWF developers to get approval for building awind farm, and has the goal to improve safetyfor shipping and offshore wind farm turbines.The report presents the current status of NRAprocesses in the North Sea and providesrecommendations to improve and harmonizethese. Read more..

Using AIS data for MSPThe objective of this study is to illustrate howthe AIS data processing and analysis canproduce adequate information for MSP,including maritime traffic density, shippinglanes and navigational flow, hierarchicalnetworks of maritime routes, alleged fishingzones and spatio-temporal interactionsbetween activities. It also aims to study thelegal questions concerning the use of AIS,discuss the use of such data for MSP, andi d e n t i f y research and developmentperspectives. Read more..

New FAQ: National defence and securityNational defence and security have a specialstatus in the MSP process as they are keyfunctions of national governments, thereforecreating preconditions for all other humanactivities on the sea. Read more..

Country informationIreland publishes MSP Framework

MSP-relevant publicationsand opportunitiesNew EMODnet 3D Seabed 'Street view'EMODNET has launched a high-resolution, 3Dunderwater terrain model for the EuropeanSeas - a 'street view' of the seabed. Googlelaunched a 360° street view tour of theCygnus offshore platform in the North Sea.Viewers can see all corners of the platform,including the bridges and the tour alsofeatures interviews with platform employees.Read more..

EC Report on MSFD implementationThe EC has published a report on the

Baseline ReportThe report presents a brief introduction toMSP and its benefits, the purpose of thereport as well as a list of public events and achapter on public participation,communication and engagement. The newreport also makes reference to HarnessingOur Ocean Wealth, Ireland's first integratednational marine plan. There are 12consultation questions in the reportintended to spark engagement from a widerange of stakeholders. Written responsesa n d comments can be sent in until 14December 2018. In parallel, a series ofregional public and stakeholder events willbe organised in the month of October 2018.The EU MSP Platform will present at themeeting taking place on 5 October inGalway.Read more..

Poland development of SpatialDevelopment PlansThe beginning of the elaboration of theSpatial Development Plans for internal seawaters has been announced in the Polishsea area under jurisdiction of the Director ofthe Maritime Office in Słupsk. This concernsplans for the waters of the seaports in Łeba,Rowy and Ustka. The contract was signedwith the Contractor on August 14, 2018.Signing of such a contract for similar worksfor ports in Darłowo, Kołobrzeg andDźwirzyno is expected soon. More aboutPolish MSP..

Publication of French country ficheThe EU MSP Platform Country page nowincludes a dedicated section for France, withthe inclusion of a downloadable 13 pagePDF. More about French MSP..

implementation of the EU Marine StrategyFramework Directive assessing the measuresput in place by EU Member States to achieve'good environmental status' or GES by 2020.T h e report shows that EU Member Stateshave made considerable efforts to addresspressures on the marine environment, butthat the measures are not yet sufficient toachieve good, healthy and productive seas by2 0 2 0 . The GES concept is defined bymeasures conserving biodiversity andtackling pressures like overfishing, seabeddamage, marine litter and contaminants.Readmore..

#EUBeachCleanup Campaign On the occasion of World Cleanup Day (20September), some 50 EU delegations andrepresentations teamed up with NGOs,embassies, schools and volunteer networks toorganise beach clean up activities across theworld. By cleaning beaches, riversides andeven cities, the EU representations anddelegations (its embassies in EU and non-EUcountries, respectively) want to send a strongstatement. The campaign started on 11September in Fiji and will end on 27 Octoberin Singapore, a few days before the OurOcean 2018 conference in Bali. Read more..

Cultural Heritage e-Book published'Connecting cultures, connected citizens'presents an array of Interreg projects thatreceived the European Year of CulturalHeritage 2018 label. It can be read as a PDFor via an online pageflip tool. Read more..

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MSP events in 201815th Meeting of the Member States expert group on MSP

8-9 October in Brussels, Belgium

MUSES Final Conference 10 October in Brussels, Belgium

AQUACROSS Final Conference10-11 October in Brussels, Belgium

1st joint meeting of SEAPLANSPACE18 October in Sopot, Poland

#BlueInvest Atlantic23 October in Vigo, Spain

5th annual conference of the European Atlantic Stakeholders Platform23-24 October in Vigo, Spain

15th Littoral Conference22-26 October in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

SIMNORAT Conference25 October in Nantes, France

Our Ocean Conference 201829-30 October in Bali, Indonesia

Joint BONUS - HELCOM Conference - Research and Innovation for Sustainability6 November in Copenhagen, Denmark

MSP for Blue Growth Webinar - Developing Visions in MSP: an Introduction to the Handbook7 November ONLINE

6th WOC Sustainable Ocean Summit 14-16 November in Hong Kong, China

PORTODIMARE International Conference on ICZM & MSP14-15 November in Budva, Montenegro

MSP for Blue Growth Webinar - Investigating Current and Future Spatial Demands of KeyMaritime Sectors

21 November ONLINE

Interactive stakeholder workshop on shipping in the North Sea 21-22 November in Malmö, Sweden

MSP for Blue Growth Webinar - Developing Indicators for MSP: an Introduction to theHandbook

5 December ONLINE

SIMWESTMED / SUPREME closing conference 12-13 December in Venice, Italy

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