The value added of MAMA for APAT and Italy

Gianna Casazza & Cecilia Silvestri

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APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

Final MAMA Meeting –Tunis 7Th-9Th March 2005

APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

APAT participation in the project

Member of the Project TeamWP 0 (MAMA_CO)

Organizing visits of scientists/technicians in Italian centres/institutions (logistic and preparation)

WP 3 (MAMA_CAP/build)

Access and main end-user to net-MedGOOS and node for end-users in WWW

WP 5 (MAMA_NET)

Links to EEA and production of awareness material

WP 7 (MAMA_AWARE)

•Responsible for the second MAMA plenary meeting (13th month)

•Survey and testing on CEROSPIG software

WP 8 (MAMA_DISS&PROD)

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APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

Role of APAT in MAMA

APAT acts as the National Focal Point and National Reference Center of the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Italy, providing yearly data of the national monitoring programmes for coastal waters to EEA

APAT is representing Italy in the working process of the implementation of the new European Water Directive (Directive 60/EC/2000)

END-USER

EU policy

Contribution to the implementation and evolution of EU policies

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APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

APAT major contributions given to MAMA

Meeting in Rome: national awareness of the MAMA Project

Capacity building: training offered

Diffusion of information regarding Institutional National monitoring (not research) of coastal waters in Italy to the other MAMA partners

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APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

How MAMA has benefited APAT and Italy

At National level Integrated view of institutional coastal monitoring: data, methods, stations, personnel training, needs for legislation requirements, gaps…..

Effective collaboration with national research Institutions

Extend contacts with research Institutions and others working on coastal environment

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APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

How MAMA has benefited APAT and Italy

At Mediterranean level: Extend knowledge and contacts to research and monitoring on the “marine” (not just coastal) side of the Mediterranean

Network base for future work

At European level: Constant update of the new legislations requirements, comparison with the national and Mediterranean situation to identify problems and needs

Collaboration with European institutions for information and data exchange

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APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

How MAMA has benefited myself

Male > female

Human resource in marine sector

MAMA gave me the possibility to help in rising the pink histogram

MAMA gave me the possibility to have not only a scientific exchange but an important cultural and human exchange

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APAT – Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services

James Elroy Flecker

THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND

“We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall goAlways a little further: it may beBeyond that last blue mountain barred with snow,Across that angry or that glimmering sea”