In support of the preparatory actions of the EU’s Integrated Maritime Policy a set of projects were launched in 2008 and 2009 with the aim of creating five portals that assembled fragmented and inaccessible marine data into interoperable, contiguous and publicly available data streams for...

In support of the preparatory actions of the EU’s Integrated Maritime Policy a set of projects were launched in 2008 and 2009 with the aim of assembling fragmented and inaccessible marine data into interoperable, contiguous and publicly available data streams for complete maritime basins. The...

I) Promote maritime Research & Development – in particular for the pre-development maritime economic activities to bridge the gap between research and market uptake; II) Boost access to finance – to foster maritime economic actors in the pre-development stage and to help overcoming the...