REALISE Regional Action for Logistical Integration of Shipping across Europe Management Committee Me

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AMRIE HIGH LEVEL CONFERENCE EU Maritime Policy
The Future Challenge

Gijón, 1st-2nd June 2006
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Research Priorities for Maritime Policy

Simone Kunde AMRIE
Gijón 1st June 2006
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Why Maritime Research?

• Importance of the maritime sector for the
  economic
• development
• Need for competitiveness
• Sustainable use of marine resources
• Research, innovation technology are
  the way to manage the resources in a
  sustainable manner.
• Maritime research is not a specific theme in FP7
• Due to its importance it will be a horizontal
  issue
• All 9 themes of FP7 should have a maritime
  dimension

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Maritime Research Lisbon process
Overall Lisbon goal to stimulate economic growth
while creating more and better jobs E.g. via
the establishment of regional RTD
capacity Develop better linkage between maritime
regions trans-nationally and at EU level AMRIE
via its APRI (AMRIE Policy Research Institute)
and the MAREDFlow project is attempting to
mobilise its own members in this respect.
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What are the main obstacles?

• Lack of adequate data
• Missing knowledge
• Differing methods in data collection
• Missing data interoperability comparability
• Different conditions in the European seas and
  coastal areas
• Hydrology, Geology, Biology
• Legal and political structures
• Economic development and Culture

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Data collection and compatibility

• Data collection and compatibility is always
  problematic for researchers in every field
• It would be useful to establish at EU level
• Adequate maritime data collection mechanisms
• Comprehensive set of databases (with good
  cross-sectional
• and time series consistency)
• Open access to researchers in various fields
• Such a data repository and network could be
  established in the context of a Network of
  Excellence, linking national and European centres
  working in this area.

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Different conditions

• Differing impact of marine and maritime policy
  on the
• regional sea areas.
• Research is often based on research in one
  region, e.g. N.W.
• Europe
• Derived policies and legislation are not
  applicable to all of
• Europes regional seas
• Differences need to be reflected in the calls
• Need of adequate funding

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Need for Research Coastal Zone Management

Conflicts because of great density and diversity
of sea-based activities Need for an integrated
approach Isolated actions of EU member states
would be less efficient Great benefits from a
coherent allocation of space and better
environmental protection Spatial marine planning
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Need for Research Climate Change
The role of oceans in climate dynamics is highly
relevant Climate change is a very complex issue
Multidisciplinary research is required (apart
from climatology) Inclusion of statistical,
biological, geological, oceanographic, and
economic research approaches Need to define
indicators Less fashionable hypotheses
relating to global warming and associated
mathematical techniques of analysis should be
considered for research funding.

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Need for Research Water Framework Directive (WFD)
Need to define the ecological status Need to
define the methodology and monitoring tools to
measure the quality of coastal waters Need for
a socio-economic cost benefit analyses
to consider industrial and commercial activities
taking place
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Research Priorities for Maritime Policy

Thank you very much for your attention
Simone Kunde AMRIE
Gijón 1st June 2006