2022

The project MSP4BIO – ‘Improved Science-based Maritime Spatial Planning to Safeguard and Restore Biodiversity in a Coherent European MPA Network’ – has established the Community of...

PAP/RAC was happy to engage and to continue working with our  colleagues in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, this time on  gender-sensitive climate risk assessment and coasta...

It was with great sadness that we have received the news of the passing of Prof. Allan T. Williams.

Influencing scientist, emeritus professor, member of numerous scientific comm...

The MSP seminar was launched on November 15, 2022 by PAP/RAC during a virtual presentation. The event brought together around sixty participants, who heard about the training progr...

The side-event 'Coastal cities at the forefront of climate change' was organised on the 17th of November, 2022 by Coastal Authorities Forum Israel and Tel Aviv University as part o...

On 7-8 December 2022, in Marrakesh, Morocco, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) inaugurated the Constitutive Session of the Marrakesh PAM Economic Parliamentary ...

The 2nd "Thursday CREATivE Talks" webinar, which was held on December 1, 2022 in the frame of the Interreg Italy-Croatia project - Climate RESponses for the AdriaTic rEgion (CREATE...

On November 29, 2022, the President of the Republic of Tunisia, His Excellency Kaïs Saïed, ratified the ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean. Tunisia has therefore become the 12th M...

The Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European Commission (DG MARE) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) jointly or...

PAP/RAC is organizing the 2nd webinar of the Interreg CREATE project on the importance of adaptation planning for coastal areas, in relation to the impacts of climate change. The w...

The conference room of the Mediterranean pavilion, the first-ever regional pavilion at the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, was packed on Saturday 12^th November, when PAP...

The webinar entitled "Possibilities of financing adaptation to climate change", which was held on November 10, 2022, has launched the "Thursday CREATivE Talks" webinar series, whic...

The GEF-UNEP MedProgramme’s Annual Stocktaking Meeting (ASM), with the "Assess – Synergize – Move forward” slogan, was held on 2-3 November 2022 in Athens, Greece. The MedProgramme...

Between the beginning of September and the end of October 2022, 4 training courses on ICZM and MSP were organized by the GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit - Germa...

Split-Dalmatia County organised a workshop on October 21st as a demonstration and contribution to the governance in its region, in the framework of the CREATE Interreg Italy-Croati...

On October 20th a Kick off Conference of the EU Interreg Italy – Croatia project CREATE was held in Split, under the slogan „CREATE the future we need“. 

The event was organised...

The first edition of the Sea-Level Rise Conference took place on October 17-18, at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista of Venice, a centuries-old institution at the heart of...

What does the latest scientific research say about climate change? What measures should we take to protect our coastal cities and population? Answers to these and many other questi...

10^th “Anatomy of Islands” symposium dedicated to climate change and environmental futures of islands was held from 26-28 September at Lastovo. Three days of presentations and discu...

It has been a tradition now that Slovenia celebrates the Mediterranean Coast Day during the whole week. And it is not only for the promotion of integrated management of national co...

Every year, the central event of the Mediterranean Coast Day is celebrated in one of the 21 Mediterranean countries, and this year, Morocco and its splendid town of Tangier were ch...

The diagnostic workshop of the regional coastal plan (Schéma régional du littoral) of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region was successfully held on 29 and 30 September 2022. PAP/R...

The on-line workshop on governance of coastal wetlands was organized by PAP/RAC in close collaboration with MedWet on 16 September 2022. The main objective was to present the resul...

Split Dalmatia County joined the celebration of the Mediterranean Coast Day with an action called "Sea Patrol" in Kaštel Gomilica. The celebration included a workshop on ecology an...

The first event of this year's Mediterranean Coast Day in Croatia has just been held at the PAP/RAC premises. High school students from “Vladimir Nazor“ visited us to hear about co...

The coastal town of Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted the Final conference of the CAMP project and the celebration of the Coast Day on 13^th September 2022.

These events come a...

This year's 10th anniversary of the Anatomy of Islands symposium is joining the celebration of the Mediterranean Coast Day. On the marvellous Croatian island of Lastovo, participan...

A series of lectures on ICZM and MSP started yesterday (31 August 2022) for the master’s students of the Syrian Virtual University (SVU). This cooperation between the PAP/RAC and t...

Mediterranean Coast Day (25 September) is a regional annual observance introduced under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Protocol of the Barcelona Convention. PAP/RAC ...

A meeting was convened with the main stakeholders of the Santa Marija Bay wetland on Comino island, Malta 1^st and 2^nd August 2022. The representatives of Environment and Resources ...

As part of the organization of Coast Day 2022, PAP/RAC is calling for expressions of interest for NGOs in the Tangier - Tetouan - Al Hoceima region.

This year, the central event...

PAP/RAC is a part of a new EU Interreg Italy-Croatia project „CREATE“.

CREATE is a cluster project - it aims to capitalise on outcomes, networking and activities provided by num...

Within the framework of the MedProgramme CP 2.1 and SCCF projects, on July 13th and 14^th, PAP/RAC brought together the expert team leaders of the preparation of coastal plans for B...

On 4th and 5th July 2022, a second workshop on the development of the Coastal Management Plan for Boka Kotorska Bay was held in Kotor, Montenegro, with the support from our colleag...

“Scaling up Ocean Action Based on Science and Innovation for the Implementation of Goal 14: Stocktaking, Partnerships and Solutions”

The second UN Ocean Conference, organised in...

The new the Mediterranean Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Workspace is now live. https://msp.iczmplatform.org/

This new workspace is dedicated to giving planners and policy make...

Representatives of PAP/RAC paid a visit to the new premises of Plan Bleu in order to coordinate their activities, in particular several activities within the GEF Medprogramme Child...

From 15–17 June a workshop entitled „Coastal adaptation to climate change: how to work with nature“ was held in Marseille, France. The workshop was organized by the French Coastal ...

The PAP/RAC delegation visited Kotor on 17 June 2022 in order to meet with the local experts included in the preparation of the Coastal Management Plan for Boka Kotorska Bay, which...

DG MARE, with the support of MSP Assistance Mechanism, organised the MSP Stakeholder Conference - Planning for the future of Europe’s Marine Space. The conference was organised on ...

The 22^st Meeting of the Member States Expert Group on Maritime Spatial Planning (MSEG – MSP) took place on 14th June 2022 in Brest (France). During the meeting, highlights from Mem...

The Sustainable Development Report 2022, which provides the most up-to-date data to track and rank the performance of all UN members states on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...

The Director of INFO/RAC was one the speakers in the section on "Water in the Mediterranean: disputed and running out" held on 4 June 2002 in Catania, at the Palazzo della Cultura....

A technical workshop on the implementation of IMAP has jointly been organised by PAP/RAC and INFO/RAC with the responsible IMAP users and colleagues dealing with monitoring of comm...

On 17 May 2022, a PAP/RAC delegation visited the Moroccan partners at the Ministry of Energetic Transition and Sustainable Development. The reason for the visit was the preparation...

The 3^rd meeting of the Steering Committee for the CAMP B&H project took place in Sarajevo on 5 May 2022. The project is entering its final stage therefore the meeting had the objec...

On 11 and 12 April 2022, PAP/RAC had the pleasure of welcoming to its premises the Focal Point of Slovenia, Mr. Mitja Bricelj, accompanied by three of his eminent colleagues from t...

Sixteen years ago, the National Research Group for Coastal Environment issues (GNRAC) was founded with the objective to promote and disseminate studies on the status, conservation ...

On March 13th 2022, PAP/RAC and Plan Blue held the inception meeting for the preparation of regional Coastal plan (Schéma régional du littoral) for the region Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoc...

On 28th February, IPCC published its 2nd release of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on „Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability“. This report calls for our attention, more than any...

PAP/RAC team gladly announces that the knowledge platform AdriAdapt has been completed and available at www.adriadapt.eu. The platform serves primarily as an inspiration for climat...

At the occasion of the World Wetlands Day we have the pleasure to share with you two videos that have just been produced in the frame of the MAVA project in Buna River Protected La...

The CAMP in Bosnia and Herzegovina has reached its advanced stage and it is in its full swing. Several outputs have already been prepared and the time has come to publish its web s...

A very interesting educational video from the Interreg MAREGOT project on beach erosion monitoring and coastal management; coastal evolution; human impact on beaches; shore protect...