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...

This working paper has two major objectives. First, it provides an introduction into the methodology of indicator systems as a management instrument in the framework of the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) Operational programmes; and, second, it provides practical guidance for the authorities and...

This guidance document is aimed at national authorities in charge of programming 2007- 2013 EFF interventions and specifically at those responsible for organising the ex ante evaluation. It provides guidance which will also be of use for the evaluators who are appointed to carry out the ex ante...