Mapping Atlantic Area seabed habitats for better marine management

Programme 2007 - 2013 Atlantic Area

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN): MeshAtlantic wants to promote harmonised production and use of marine habitat maps covering the Atlantic Area. To reach this goal, intends to adapt and enhance previous achievements to the area, hence bringing the region onto equal footing with northern Europe.

Achievements (EN):

The Final MeshAtlantic Conference, under the main theme titled “Mapping Atlantic Area Seabed Habitats for Better Marine Management”, was successfully held in Aveiro, Portugal, hosted by the Aveiro University. This conference took place in 15th - 17th September, 2013 at the University premises gathering over 100 representatives of public and private institutions with interests in marine habitat mapping. This event served as a forum to share experiences and provide interaction about the habitat mapping themes. MeshAtlantic achievements in a Blue Box The MeshAtlantic project is naturally reaching its end. During its lifetime the project provided an excellent opportunity to develop intense collaboration and work among the partnership to accomplish the proposed objectives in favour of seabed habitat mapping across the European Atlantic Area (France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain). As a result, a range of outputs concerning marine habitat mapping were produced. The MeshAtlantic Blue Box package has been designed to give in an unique product a broad overview of the most important achieved results. A set of 12 documents makes up the Blue Box, each of them detailing the main output of a specific activity carried out under the project: >Overview of MeshAtlantic >Atlantic Area EUNIS Habitats >EUNIS Conference - Book of Abstracts >EUNIS Classification Collaborative Paper >Generating a Broad-scale EUNIS Habitat Map >Broad-scale EUNIS Habitat Maps >Scoping of Habitat Mapping Surveys >Reports on MeshAtlantic Survey Sites >Detailed EUNIS Habitat Maps >Atlantic Area Stakeholder Viewpoints >MeshAtlantic Multimedia Exhibition >MeshAtlantic Follow-on Strategy The abstract book as well as the presentations and posters can be accessed through the project site (www.meshatlantic.eu).

Website: http://www.coop-atlantico.com/

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Sustainable management of natural resources Regional planning and development Knowledge and technology transfer

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer

Address: Technopôle Brest-Iroise, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France

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Universidade dos Açores

Name: Universidade dos Açores

Address: Cais de Santa Cruz, 9901-862 Horta, Portugal

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Institut des Milieux Aquatiques

Name: Institut des Milieux Aquatiques

Address: 1, rue de Donzac, BP106, 64101 Bayonne, France

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Marine Institute (Foras na Mara)

Name: Marine Institute (Foras na Mara)

Address: RinvilleOranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland

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Instituto Español de Oceanografia

Name: Instituto Español de Oceanografia

Address: Corazon de Maria, 8, 28002 Madrid, Spain

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Departamento de Ambiente e Ordenamento

Name: Departamento de Ambiente e Ordenamento

Address: Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

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Instituto das Pescas da Investigação e do Mar

Name: Instituto das Pescas da Investigação e do Mar

Address: Av. De Brasilia, 1449-006 Lisbo, Portugal

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Fundacion AZTI - AZTI Fundazioa

Name: Fundacion AZTI - AZTI Fundazioa

Address: Herrera Kaia, Portualdea z/g, 20110 Pasaia, Spain

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CRIA-Divisao de Emprendedorismo e Transferenecia de Tecnología

Name: CRIA-Divisao de Emprendedorismo e Transferenecia de Tecnología

Address: Universidade do Algarve CCMAR Campus de Gambelas, 8125-139 Faro, Portugal

Legal status: n/a

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Project name (EN): Mapping Atlantic Area seabed habitats for better marine management

Project acronym: MeshAtlantic

Project start date: 2010-01-01

Project end date: 2012-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 499 695.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 274 802.00

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2007 - 2013 Atlantic Area

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2015-12-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

70 / 70 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

655 / 655 (100%)

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Mapping Atlantic Area seabed habitats for better marine management

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