MAMA Project Benefits for HCMR

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MAMA Project Benefits for HCMR

• Raised awareness for Mediterranean Operational
  Oceanography on a national level
  
• Dissemination of POSEIDON products to a wider
  range of scientific users in the Med
  
• Improved collaboration with Institutes from south
  Mediterranean and non EU countries

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1 Raise awareness on a national level

• The visibility of Operational Oceanography was
  relatively increased in Greece due to the
  POSEIDON system that provides products to the
  public since 1999.
• The MAMA project increased the visibility of
  Mediterranean scale efforts (MFS projects) and
  promoted the idea of international collaboration.
  
• This was achieved both through the contacts with
  other stakeholders during MAMA-WP1 activities and
  through the National Awareness meeting that took
  place parallel to the EuroGOOS 2002 Conference in
  Athens.

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2 Dissemination of POSEIDON products
Through MAMA-Net products (data and forecasts
from the POSEIDON system started to be made
available to the Mediterranean scientific
community. This extended the user-base of the
POSEIDON system and increased the exploitation of
its products from a wider community
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3 Collaboration with Mediterranean partners
Through the MAMA project, HCMR improved its links
with Institutes and laboratories from non EU
countries (south Mediterranean, Adriatic Sea).
This can form the basis for future collaboration
in research or capacity building programs in the
area of Operational Oceanography an other topics
of Marine Sciences.