Upcoming Events
Two satellite events at the UN Ocean Decade will be organized with the MSP4BIO help!
On April 8th, MSP4BIO will join the Marine Protected Areas Forum to co-host with BLUE4ALL Project the “Become an MPA manager for a day! – A roleplaying game” session, which will take the audience into the shoes of an MPA manager and explore the environmental, social, economic, multi-use, and policy challenges they commonly face.
Want to be part of it? Then Check the Draft Agenda, Register And Join!
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Workshop "Strengthening the ecosystem-based approach in MSP and supporting sustainable blue economy"
The Workshop "Strengthening the ecosystem-based approach in MSP and supporting sustainable blue economy" will be held in Helsinki 13-15 June 2023. The event will take place over three days and will be a physical meeting, with the opportunity to follow the meeting online. It will consist of several sessions dedicated to four main themes.
Registration to the Workshop is opened until 15th of May 2023 for those who will join physically. For those who will attend online registration will be open until the 8th of June 2023.
The Workshop is organized jointly by the eMSP NBSR project Ecosystem-based Approach and Sustainable Blue Economy Communities of Practice with support of MSP4BIO project and EUSBSR Policy Area Spatial Planning.
Main themes:
1. MSP’s contribution to the establishing and maintaining a coherent MPAs network and other spatial conservation measures- an example of eMSP study case on MSP and MPAs.
2. The role of MSP in overall progress towards GES (opportunities and limits) – an example of eMSP study case on MSP and GES.
3. International framework for ecosystem-based approach in MSP – recommendations based on good EBA practices in MSP and gap-analysis.
4. MSP for sustainable blue economy –Natural capital & environmental impact as boundary condition for sustainable food and energy production in the long term and to contribute to biodiversity goals of Green Deal (including mitigation, nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, biodiversity, nature restoration, interaction between human and nature, …).
MED MSP CoP IV Webinar: Sharing knowledge as key for advancing MSP practice: examples form other communities of practice and knowledge platforms
CALL FOR PAPERS: COASTAL TRANSITIONS III CONFERENCE 2023. RE-IMAGINING COASTAL TRANSITIONS: DIVERSE BLUE ECONOMIES
RE-IMAGINING COASTAL TRANSITIONS: DIVERSE BLUE ECONOMIES. COASTAL TRANSITIONS III CONFERENCE will be held in November 8 to 10 at the University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus, Groton, Connecticut, 2023.
This conference aims to re-imagine the Blue Economy, not as a business-as-usual approach to economic development, but as an innovative framework that recognizes the diversity of economies, facilitates energized transdisciplinary dialogue and enables multi-stakeholder activation and empowerment in order to radically reframe coastal and marine economies.