The meeting, that was held in Nice on 27th and 28th April 2017, allowed to share best practices, to present efforts of Contracting Parties for IMAP implementation at national scales, to encourage discussion and meeting recommendations regarding elaboration of efficient spatial and temporal scales for monitoring and assessment.
Plan Bleu organized the fifth workshop on the science-policy interface (SPI) strengthening and the Ecosystem Approach (EcAp) coordination group meeting on IMAP spatial and temporal scales of monitoring and assessment back to back with the Quality Status Report (QSR) meeting.
This workshop was held in Nice, France, on 27th and 28th April 2017.
With the support of the EU funded EcApMEDII project and its specific output related to science-policy interface strengthening, the meeting allowed to share best practices, to present efforts of Contracting Parties for IMAP implementation at national scales, to encourage discussion and meeting recommendations regarding elaboration of efficient spatial and temporal scales for monitoring and assessment.
The workshop was held back to back with the Ecosystem Approach Coordination Group Meeting and Quality Status Report (QSR) meeting dealing with the assessment factsheets on Marine Litter, Biodiversity and fisheries, and Hydrography and coast co-organized by UN-Environment/MAP and MEDPOL.
Joining the different events enable to gather scientific researchers invited by Plan Bleu for the SPI session, scientific experts designated by governments of Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and National Focal Points of UNEP MAP and RACs’ representatives.
This workshop was the fifth event after a series of SPI strengthening workshops:
- The Inception workshop on SPI held at Sophia Antipolis , France, on December 15-16th, 2015 (see the report of the workshop),
- The SPI workshop on science Policy Interface (SPI) strengthening for the implementation of the UNEP/MAP Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Programme, for Pollution, held in Marseille on the 20-21 October 2016
- The SPI workshop on Science Policy Interface (SPI) strengthening in the field of Marine Protected Areas and Marine biodiversity in the Mediterranean held in Tangiers on the 28th November 2016
- The SPI workshop on Science Policy Interface (SPI) strengthening with a focus on the Risk Based Approach (RBA) for optimizing coastal and marine monitoring strategies held in Madrid on the 2nd March 2017
