About Marine-Ecomed
The MARINE_ECOMED project has been created through the support of the Erasmus+ EU Program with the objective to build an international strategic partnership to enhance research and education in the subject of sustainable marine management and communication strategies in this field, within the Mediterranean unique natural and socio-economic context. It is a 3 years project developed by a trans-sectoral international network of institutions such as Universities and Non-Governmental Organizations, which are geographically based on the European coast over an area that goes from the East (Greece) to the West (Spain) of the Mediterranean.
This heterogeneous network of institutions, spread through the Mediterranean basin was accurately designed to integrate, through collaboration and exchange of good practices, the diverse research and teaching approaches of the different professional contexts found along the region.
Thus, MARINE_ECOMED will enable to refine and enlarge the background of students, researchers and teachers, exposing them to different working and teaching realities and approaches, while strengthening new collaborations and creating new education materials.
The main outputs of the project will be the implementation of an Intensive Study Program (ISP) for university students and the creation of new educational materials. The ISP will focus in the multidisciplinary subject of planning and management of marine and coastal areas. It will involve students from different academic institutions and with different backgrounds that will be trained through innovative integrated approaches and will collaborate in an international workshop to apply and integrate their knowledge in an interactive manner working on a real case study. The new educational materials include the Open Education Resources in Planning and management of marine and coastal areas and Ocean literacy, the MOOC on Planning and management of marine and coastal areas, the Handbook on Marine education and communication in the Mediterranean. These materials will be produced through the collaboration of the experts of the partnership and made freely available for download from the MARINE_ECOMED website.