Common Maritime Agenda News

The next Blue Entrepreneurship Workshop will take place on 4 October (afternoon, exact starting time TBC) under the Turkish coordination of the Common Maritime Agenda for the Black Sea. Continuing on from discussions at the May’s Regional Webinar on ‘R&I towards cultivating the potential for Blue Entrepreneurship’, October’s online event will be dedicated to ‘Follow-up on business ecosystem support’.

Building on the first MARSPLAN-BS project which ended in 2018, MARSPLAN-BS II further developed maritime spatial plans and a common cross-border strategy between Romania and Bulgaria for the Mangalia-Shabla area. Read more about this project and MSP in the Black Sea with this new article published by EC Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

In Burgas, Bulgaria, this EU funded project improves working conditions as well as environmental protection of coastal communities. Read more below.

The strategic guidelines for more sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture provide a vision for the further development of aquaculture, contributing to the European Green Deal, the multi-use of maritime space and economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The GEF and World Bank Regional initiative Blueing the Black Sea is producing a series of diagnostics on the state of pollution in the BlackSea. Take part to this important initiative via an open consultation.