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Newsletter #1 2017
Numerous MSP eventsplanned for 2017By the end of February, several MSP relatedevents have already taken place: twoSearica intergroup meetings on theimportance of data for the sustainabledevelopment of maritime activities and oninternational ocean governance, aconference on the sustainable developmentof the Blue Economy in the WesternMediterranean, as well as the EMODnet seabasin stakeholder conference.
The 2nd International MSP conference willtake place in Paris between 15 and 17March, bringing together over 300 MSPexperts from all over the world. The EU MSPPlatform team will host an exhibition stand.
Searica will host two more workshops: ‘Motorways of the Sea’ on 7March and ‘Boosting maritime cooperationin the North Sea’ on 28 March.
The city of Poole, UK, will host the EuropeanMaritime Day on 18 - 19 May and will bringtogether policymakers and stakeholders todiscuss ‘the future of our seas'. Among thenumerous workshops, there will be at leastone related to MSP.
Attend the 8th annual Forum of the EUStrategy for the Baltic Sea Region on 13 and14 June and go to Amsterdam from 5 to 7July to participate in the 9th MAREconference, which will focus on ‘People andthe Sea: dealing with Maritime Mobilities’.The Events page features documentation ofpast events as well as an extensive list ofupcoming MSP related events.
News from MSP projects
HELCOM is currently developing an MSPdata tool for the Baltic Sea Region in thecontext of the BalticLINes project. If youhave access to the HELCOM Sharepoint, youcan already test it here.
The BalticLINes and the NorthSEE projectswill get together in early March to discussdevelopments in shipping and energy. Youcan find more information on these projectsas well as many others in the Projectsdatabase.
In the Black Sea, MSP is moving forward in2017, starting off with a conferenceorganised by the project MARSPLAN BS on28 March. The project produced anassessment of the Bulgarian and Romanianmaritime areas, focusing on the majorchallenges for MSP in the Black Sea.
In the Mediterranean, two MSP-relatedprojects were recently officially launched on27 February at the kick-off event “MaritimeSpatial Planning in the Mediterranean, anoccasion for Blue Growth” that wasorganised in Rome, Italy.
The Mediterranean MSP projects SUPREMEand SIMWESTMED aim to support theimplementation of MSP in the Eastern andWestern Mediterranean sea basins and tocarry out concrete cross-border MSPcooperation initiatives.
MSP fundingThe EMFF Call for Proposals on MSP projectsin the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Black Sea andOutermost Regions is still open. Deadline forsubmissions is 31 March. For a seperate Call,a total of €1,500,000 has been made
MSP practicesSeveral new practice descriptions have beenadded to the database. The practices'Northern Ireland Regional SeascapeAssessment' and 'Mapping Atlantic Areaseabed habitats for better marinemanagement’ are guidelines on undertakingseascape assessments and focus oncollating habitat mapping information acrossdifferent countries, the latter in the context
available by the EU for the development oftransnational thematic tourism products thatpromote nautical tourism and water sportstourism at sea. The deadline is 15 March.
The Interreg cooperation forum ‘Europe,let’s cooperate’ will be held on 22 and 23March and will provide participants with theopportunity to network and attend practicalworkshops on project development and toask questions about the third Call of theInterreg programme.
of MESH Atlantic project.
A new practice description is now availablefrom the HAZADR project (on strengtheningcommon reaction capacity in the AdriaticSea): the Atlas of Risk Scenarios on theAdriatic Sea.
Within the SIMCelt project, the MSPChallenge board game - specificallydesigned for the Scottish Marine Region –has now been used to engage stakeholdersin a new format.
Country informationThe Marine Management Organisation iscurrently organising a survey that will beopen until 31 March, asking for feedback onfour documents on the UK marine planningareas. They're also organising severalworkshops, listed on our Trainings page. Youcan view the new Country InformationProfile for the UK here.
On 23 March, the North Sea Energy Forumwill be held. The meeting will bring togetherstakeholders from the public as well asNGOs and the private sector from countriesbordering the North Sea.
The outputs of the 2nd Baltic MSP Forum inNovember are now available, providing awealth of information on the status of theimplementation of MSP in the European seabasins.
The EU MSP Platformwww.msp-platform.eu now features anextensive FAQ page, which focuses on 14topics of high relevance to MSP.
Do you have a question about MSP? Submit it to the Question & Answer service here. Make sure to follow the EU MSP Platform onTwitter as well, to stay up to date with the latest developments. Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here and make
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MSP events in 2017
11th meeting of the Member States expert group on MSP 2 - 3 March 2017 in Hamburg, Germany
2nd International MSP Conference DG MARE / UNESCO IOC15 - 17 March in Paris, France
MARSPLAN BS conference28 March in Constanta, Romania
19th International Conference on biodiversity, ecology and conversation of marineecosystems
14 - 15 March 2017 in London, UK
International Conference on MSP, EcAp and Supporting Information Systems 24 - 28 April in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
ICES Working Group Meeting on Marine Planning and Coastal Zone Management 3 - 7 April 2017 in Barcelona, Spain
European Maritime Day18 - 19 May 2017 in Poole, UK
UN Conference on SDG 14 – Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marineresources for sustainable development
5 – 9 June in New York, USA
9th MARE Conference People and the Sea: Dealing with Maritime Mobilities5 – 7 July in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
EC 'Our Oceans Conference'5 - 6 October in Valletta, Malta
