The future of European fisheries and aquaculture research

Objective

The goal of the project is to define the research required in the medium term (10 years), to enable exploitation and farming of aquatic resources in the context of key challenges and risks for meeting sustainability requirements. The main output of this exercise will be a publication outlining the key challenges, strategic options and research needs concerning fisheries and aquaculture in both European waters and waters in which European fleets are operating under European agreements. The project will contribute to the implementation of a future Maritime Policy and to further strengthen the European Marine Research Area through better anticipation of research needs in the field of fisheries and aquaculture. The principle aim of FEUFAR is to in a 20 months period: 1. provide a 'state of the art' inventory of existing foresight analyses world wide, including the distillation of key messages, identifying themes, threats, drivers and developments in science and policy. 2. build scenarios, taking into account interactions between ecological, economical and societal factors. 3. define key challenges, strategic options, as well as paths toward a more sustainable future and following research needs. 4. by organising a platform for discussion, generate input from all relevant parties (fisheries and aquaculture sector, research institutes, policy makers) to this process, substantiating the analysis and simultaneously generate support to the outcome. Dissemination of both the outcome and the steps of the process through such means as publications, leaflets and a website will be undertaken. FEUFAR will seek the opinions of relevant stakeholders and it will consider the possible implications of long-term or sudden climate change, new technologies, changes in societal values and organizational structures, globalized markets for fish and other marine products, food-security, and changes in management practices or fishing techniques.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.

• agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
• social sciences political sciences political policies civil society civil society organisations nongovernmental organizations
• social sciences sociology governance crisis management
• natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
• social sciences economics and business business and management

Keywords

Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)

• Aquaculture
• Common Fisheries Policy
• Fisheries
• Fisheries and Aquaculture management
• Fisheries and Aquaculture research
• Marine Policy
• Marine Reserach Area

Programme(s)

Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.

• FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.

• POLICIES-1.3 - The modernisation and sustainability of fisheries policies

Call for proposal

Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.

FP6-2005-SSP-5-A
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Funding Scheme

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SSA - Specific Support Action

Coordinator

Participants (6)