SHAREMED International Workshop

Programme

13th September 2022, 11:30 - Welcome Lunch
Moderator: Aldo Drago, Project Specialist in SHAREMED, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS
13:00 - 13:45	Welcome and introduction Frank Bezzina, Acting President of the Republic of Malta, Pro-Rector on International Development & Quality Assurance at the University of Malta Presenting the SHAREMED project – Targets and Results Cosimo Solidoro, Project Leader, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS
SHAREMED Implementation (Part 1)
Chair: Maria João Botelho, Division of Oceanography and Marine Environment, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera Rapporteur: Maria Ana Martins, Division of Oceanography and Marine Environment, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
13:45 - 14:45	Major research goals achieved by the Project Old and new contaminants in the Mediterranean Sea, their effects on the ecosystem and multi-model numerical approaches (online) Mario Sprovieri, Director of Research, Institute of Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in the marine environment (IAS), National Research Council (CNR) Assessing environmental risks from satellite monitoring (online) Federico Falcini, Istituto di Scienze Marine - UOS di Roma, National Research Council (CNR) Standardised, quantifiable and non-destructive sampling of hard bottom communities using ARMS – Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures Borut Mavric, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia Slavica Petovic, Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro Molecular Methods in Plankton Research - Overview of methodologies, advantages and drawbacks Catarina Churro, Divisão de Oceanografia e Ambiente Marinho, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal Molecular Methods in Plankton Research - Case Studies from the Gulf of Trieste Timotej Turk Dermastia, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia *Approaches to monitor Ostreopsis* blooms to prevent impacts on human health** (online) Elisa Berdalet, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona
14:45 - 15:30	SHAREMED Atlas Donata Melaku Canu, Sezione di Oceanografia, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
SHAREMED Implementation (Part 2)
Chair: Christian Grenz, M.I.O. Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie, CNRS, Marseille Rapporteur: Vincent Faure, M.I.O. Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie, CNRS, Marseille
16:00 - 16:20	Intro to the On Demand TNA activities Aldo Drago, Project Specialist in SHAREMED, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS
16:20 - 17:05	The SHAREMED Study Site concept and portals Fabio Brunetti, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS Vincent Faure, M.I.O. Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie, Aix-Marseille University Anthony Galea, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta
17:05 - 18:00	The relocatable hydrodynamic-biogeochemical modelling system for short-term forecasts Stefano Querin, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS Vincent Faure, M.I.O. Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie, Aix-Marseille University Joel Azzopardi, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta.
19:00 Cultural Excursion
20:00 Social Dinner (Coogi's Restaurant, Mdina)

14th September 2022, 08:15 - The Present and the Future
Moderator: Cosimo Solidoro, Project Leader, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS
08:15 - 09:15	Welcome addresses Intro to the programme of the day by Aldo Drago Welcome speech by the SHAREMED Project Coordinator, Cosimo Solidoro Short messages by invited VIPs Adriana Salazar Olivan, Environment and Blue Economy, Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, Barcelona, Spain (online) Helmi Mardassi, DG, Unit for the Management of the European framework programmes for Research and Innovation, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Tunisia Alexis Blum, European Projects Manager at SGMer (CISE / EFFECTOR / SKILLSEA / PANORAMED), Paris (online) Hon. Alicia Bugeja Said, Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Animal Welfare
Chair: Jordi Isern, Laboratory of Seafloor and Sub-seafloor Geological Processes, Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC Rapporteur: Lucía Quirós, Laboratory of Seafloor and Sub-seafloor Geological Processes, Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC
09:15 - 10:00	Presenting the SHAREMED Framework Document Aldo Drago, Project Specialist in SHAREMED, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS Marina Lipizer, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS
10:00 - 10:45	Success stories on the Trans-national Access On Demand activities Development and operational use of a Web-based marine forecasting service focusing on the Central Eastern area of Tunisia Slim Gana, SEA-Gust, Tunisia Practical course on Marine Monitoring Vanessa Cardin, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy Experiences from the OGS course Inal AHMED National centre for research and development of fisheries and aquaculture, Algeria On Demand TNA activities offered by MIO (online) Cristele Chevalier, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Aix Marseille Universite Modelling Lagrangian transport of particles (online) Vassiliki Metheniti, Katerina Spanoudaki and Nikos Kampanis, Coastal Research Laboratory, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas Iraklion, Crete, Greece Implementation of an operational wave model in the Central Eastern coastal area of Tunisia Slim Gana, SEA-Gust, Tunisia
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee break
Moderator: Aldo Drago, Project Specialist in SHAREMED, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS
11:15 - 12:30	Topical short speeches related to the SHAREMED Framework Document Mission to restore our ocean and waters by 2030 (online) Sieglinde Gruber, Active Senior Advisor - European Commission Science for Good Environmental Status (online) Patrick Roose, Scientific Coordination Team for S4GES, Operational Director, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Focus on the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Karim Hilmi, IOC Vice-Chair Group V and co-chair of MonGOOS Focus on Africa GOOS Affian Kouadio, Chair of AFRICA GOOS and IOC AFRICA Following Up on the BlueMED Implementation Plan (online) Fabio Fava, DICAM, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna The co-design concept in the GOOS Decade Programmes (online) Emma Heslop, Act. Head of Section, Ocean Observations and Services, Act. Office Director Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Low cost marine observing systems fitting the Mediterranean Sea Marco Marcelli, Laboratory of Experimental Oceanology and Marine Ecology, University of Tuscia
12:30 Workshop lunch
13:45 - 15:20	Round Table discussion on the SHAREMED Framework Document Members on the panel: Cosimo Solidoro, SHAREMED Project Leader, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS Patrick Roose, Scientific Coordination Team for S4GES, Operational Director, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (online) Vanessa Cardin, MonGOOS Chair, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Italy Cherif Sammari, Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Tunisia Ali Harzallah, Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Tunisia Jamal Chioua, Océanographe physician, Centre Régional de Tanger URD Océanographie Opérationnelle, Morocco George Petihakis, Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (online) Sophie Seeyave, Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) (online) Amr Hamouda, President of National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, NIOF, Ministry of Scientific Research, Egypt Suzan M. El-Gharabawy, IOC-Africa Vice Chair, GOOS Steering Committee Expert -Group V, ISA Focal Point, Head of Marine Geophysics department, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Egypt Jacek Tronczynski, Chemical Contamination of Marine Ecosystems, Ifremer - RBE/CCEM, France
15:20 - 15:40	Closure of the workshop Conclusions and next steps
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30	Final Project Meeting (for partners only)
16:30 - 17:30	Steering Committee Meeting (for partners only)
20:00 Social Dinner (for partners only)