Meeting to Trieste of the plan “Policy marine Enviromental Research for Southern European Seas”


Yesterday in the center of the Harbour Authority of Trieste an important has been carried out table of job between the Harbour Authorities of Constanta, Istanbul, Barcelona, Pireo and Trieste and the members of the more important scientific institutions of the European Countries in which the thematic ones of plan PERSEUS (Policy marine Enviromental Research for Southern European Seas have been groundbreaking), supported from the Seventh Framework Programme (FPs), the more financial important instrument with which the European Union supports the search and the development of inherent activities the scientific matters.

Using the instruments supplied from natural sciences and associate-economic sciences, with the purpose in the long term to foretell the effects of the “pressures” on the marine ecosystem, PERSEUS has like main objective the development of an effective and innovative administration of the seas, based on the scientific search, that it could be a valid instrument for the policies of the States times to invert the process of degradation of the marine life.

One of the instruments that will be elaborated in the within of the plan is concept the design of an innovative for research purposes scientific boat and the operations of monitoring and surveillance, express studied in order to operate in coastal and harbour zones.

Yesterday to Trieste investigators of Italy have been confronted, Greece, Spain, France, Russia and Rumania, than in the within of the plan they work on several platforms on possible given the sea in order to collect more on the state of Mare Mediterraneo and the Black Sea: the climatic changes and the impact are studied in such a way on the atmosphere, are on the coasts that in opened sea, for a future climatic forecast and a prevention with eventual actions. One of the challenges of the plan is that regarding the Countries of the south-east of the Mediterranean (Egypt, Tunisia, etc), that sustainabilities new of the seas will have to comply to the European political safeguard and in order to improve the state of Mare Mediterraneo in the course of next the five years.

“It has been - it has found the president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Marina Monassi - I confront important between operators of the portualità and investigators also because for the first time science sets which point of reference of integrated European marine politics for the zone of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, through a technological search whose turned out they will be used which foundation in order to supply political recommendations to European level. The political time to the environmental measures to adopt in the Member States counts very many”.