- Securing project performance by meeting the budget and scheduled timescales objectives throughout management structures and procedures implementation
- Identification and quantification of the marine pollutants of critical importance in the North, West, and South of the Black Sea, with special emphasis on emerging pollutants, microplastics, nutrients, algal blooms, noise pollution, and armed conflict-related pollution
- Assessment of contaminant bioaccumulation in the North, West, and South Black Sea region
- Integrative spatial representation and potential risk prioritization of marine pollution, including armed conflict-related contaminants in the North, West, and South of the Black Sea region
- Identification of hotspot locations, quantification of specific pollutants connected to armed conflicts, and remedial measures
- Establishing the decision-making players (authorities and organizations), reaction strategies, and management tactics for marine pollution
- Development of a sustainable management plan for marine pollution – training curricula
- Preparation of intended dissemination materials for stakeholder decision-making support, to increase the knowledge and awareness, and grant access of the large public to the project’s outcomes
- Policy briefs
- Consortium methodological guide for sampling and laboratory analysis of particular and/or specific pollution types
- Report on regional marine water pollution types and identification of the relevant indicators for the N, W and S region of the Black Sea
- Database of regional marine water pollution types and identification of the relevant indicators
- Report on bioaccumulation levels, including significant indicator trace elements, in extreme contamination levels, in the Black Sea
- Database bioaccumulation levels, including significant indicator trace elements, in extreme contamination levels, in the Black Sea
- Spatial and numeric models and simulations datasets concerning the spatial distribution and dispersion circuits of contaminants in the Black Sea
- Integrated regional pollution report and database including armed conflicts
- Monitoring guide for armed conflict related environmental pollution
- Marine pollution remedial solution prototype
- Relevant authorities / organizations in charge of reaction to marine environment pollution
- Complementary sustainable management plan of response strategies to civil and military marine pollution
- Complementary training curricula for optimized response capacity to marine pollution problems, including armed conflicts
- Training courses and local/national workshops – Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Turkey
- General workshop and meetings with the decisional stakeholders and policymakers in the Black Sea region including EU representatives
- INCDPM – Innational Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection (ROMANIA)
- IO-BAS – Institute of Oceanology Bas (BULGARIA)
- E.M. Associazione ARCES (ITALY)
- ORDU – Ordu Universitesi (TURKEY)
- SHC-NASU – Scientific Hydrophysical Centre of The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UKRAINE)
- MBNAR – Mircea Cel Batran Naval Academy (ROMANIA)
- TUIASI – Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (ROMANIA)
PROJECT DURATION: 36 months
FUNDING PROGRAM: EMFAF 2014-2020
PROJECT LINK: https://www.incdpm.org/blackseasierra-project
BUDGET: Total project budget € 749.999,38