23-24 June, Danish Society of Engineers (IDA), Copenhagen
‘PROFET POLICY’, a new EU-funded project released in 2006, is to organise 9 transnational workshops, over 2 years, covering policy issues within the aquaculture and fisheries sector throughout Europe. This initiative provides an important forum for the exchange of views between National and European policy makers and stakeholders. Through active participation, these events provide the European Commission with clear recommendations for actions providing scientific support to policy.
“Maintaining dialogue” is the title of the workshop that the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is organizing in Copenhagen on 23-24 June. The workshop is structured to present core policy issues, relevant to North Sea fisheries, and provide time for debate and discussion on progress towards improving science and research to achieve long-term sustainability of human use of the oceans.
The workshop offers a high profile panel of speakers from fisheries sciences, fisheries science directors and managers and the fisheries associations including the RACs, as well as representatives of the main EU funded research initiatives and the European Commission.
The Federation of European Aquaculture (FEAP) is coordinating the overall project and represents the professional sector of Aquaculture. Other partners are the European Association of Fish Producers Organisations (EAPO), the European Aquaculture Society (EAS), Eurofish providing access to stakeholders within the Baltic, Central and Eastern Europe while AquaTT will apply 13 years of training, networking and dissemination experience within the work of the project consortium.
‘PROFET POLICY’ combines the results and experience of two successful European projects – ‘PROFET’ (www.aquamedia.org/news/RTD/profet_en.asp) and ‘AquaFlow’ (www.aquaflow.org ). Additionally, ‘IMPACT FISH’ (see www.easonline.org) looked at the impact of research in seafood research under the 4th and 5th Framework programmes. The success and experience of these efforts provides the backbone for the developments foreseen within ‘PROFET POLICY’.
