Black Sea SCENE
The Black Sea NGO Network continues the implementation of the cross-regional project Black Sea SCENE, an integrating activity implemented as Coordination Action (Research Infrastructure Action) in the EU Sixth Framework Programme FP6. The project is in the process of establishing a Black Sea Scientific Network of leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes, universities and NGO’s from the countries around the Black Sea and to develop a virtual data and information infrastructure that will be populated and maintained by these organisations to improve the identification, access, exchange, quality indication and use of their data and information about the Black Sea.
The Black Sea SCENE research infrastructure will stimulate scientific cooperation, exchange of knowledge and expertise, and strengthen the regional capacity and performance of marine environmental data & information management, underpin harmonization with European marine data quality control/assessment procedures and adoption of international meta-data standards and data-management practices, providing improved data & information delivery services for the Black Sea region at a European level.
The Black Sea NGO Network has been promoting the opportunities offered by the research infrastructure to stakeholders in the NGO sector and the wider regional community. Its main objective has been to get end-users informed about the nature of the projects implemented in the Black Sea region and data about the Black Sea, as well as about their accessibility and opportunities for use in relation to networking.
Eleventh Anniversary of Black Sea Action Day
October 31, 2007 marked the eleventh International Black Sea Action Day — a time to focus attention, within the framework of the ongoing efforts of governments and international institutions, on the urgent need for concerted action to restore and preserve the unique environment of this remarkable water body.
The day commemorates eleven years since representatives from all countries that border on the Black Sea — Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine — signed the Strategic Action Plan for the Rehabilitation and Protection of the Black Sea. The Plan forms a comprehensive guide for practical work to bring about real improvements to the sea’s dramatic deterioration.
A sustainable future for the Black Sea is only possible if the population of its drainage basin is aware of its role as a polluter and joins common efforts for pollution prevention and restoration of the environment. The International Black Sea Day is part of that process. So HELP THE BLACK SEA NOW!
Black Sea SCENE
The Black Sea NGO Network is currently implementing a cross-regional project Black Sea SCENE, an integrating activity implemented as Coordination Action (Research Infrastructure Action) in the EU Sixth Framework Programme FP6. The Black Sea SCENE project is undertaken by 25 partners from the Black Sea countries: Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, in cooperation with 6 partners from the EU member states and one from Norway (EU Associated state). The overall management and coordination of the Black Sea SCENE is carried out by the Marine Information Service MARIS B.V. from the Netherlands.
The project aims to establish a Black Sea Scientific Network of leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes, universities and NGOs from the countries around the Black Sea and to develop a virtual data and information infrastructure. The Black Sea NGO Network (BSNN) will contribute to the transformation of the Black Sea SCENE information infrastructure into a user-friendly environmental knowledge platform.
The Black Sea SCENE partners are proactively addressing the end-users community to promote and disseminate the Black Sea SCENE activities and project results. The BSNN has been involved in the end-user and stakeholder consultation process with the purpose to help extend the circle of end-users outside the scientific research community. The consultation of potential end-users serves to obtain requirements and feedback for the networking activities of the Black Sea SCENE and the development of the Black Sea virtual data and information infrastructure.
Black Sea Youth Leaders Conference
A project made possible by the assistance of the Open Society Institute East-East Programme brought together over 40 NGO activists from Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Moldova in the Black Sea Youth Leaders Conference held 15 —18 September 2006 in Varna, Bulgaria. Its goal was to encourage the young people from the Black Sea countries to perform the role of active citizens and to contribute to saving the Black Sea on the basis of international agreements, the activities of existing NGO networks and NGO expertise in public participation in decision making on environmental issues. As a specific topic the participants addressed the issue of youth capacity building in view of EU enlargement. They focused on the establishment of a youth network with joint planning and networking activities, as well as project preparation in view of the ongoing Black Sea Ecosystem Recovery Project — Phase 2.
Archive 2003—2006 is available on request