EMAR²RES

Resulting from earlier collaborations during the influential EurOCEAN conference series and the Lisbon 2007 Conference, the Marine Board was invited by the maritime research community to participate in the FP7 proposal EMAR²RES.

The FP7 Support Action EMAR²RES (DG RTD-Unit Transport) involves, as consortium partners, the European Associations representing the major waterborne R&D stakeholders and the Marine Board, as key representative of the Marine Science Research Community.

The proposal was developed to investigate and develop cooperation between Marine and Maritime Research Communities with a focus on Maritime Transport (Coordinator: CESA). The project is to set up an appropriate, efficient and streamlined cooperation framework to realise the concept of sustainable development (in the context of climate change) while achieving the Lisbon agenda.

This framework would be developed by identifying:

• Areas of common interest; 
• Areas of possible synergies (between stakeholders, funding programmes or specific policies);
• Possible structures for long lasting cooperation and potential integration operational feasibility and economical sense should be used along with environmental and social impacts to properly assess the overall impact of particular policy/political decisions.

The EMAR²RES Work Packages will be addressing a regular set of deliverables over the 28-month period of the project. EMAR²RES started on 01 November 2009.