The Atlantic – Our shared Resource. Making the Vision Reality
Palais d'Egmont
1000 Ville de Bruxelles
Brussels
Belgium
The implementation activities of the Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Research Cooperation,
signed in May 2013 by the EU, Canada and the United States of America, and launching an Atlantic
Ocean Research Alliance, are moving to a new exciting stage.
This event will be the launch pad for all the ‘Galway Statement follow-up projects’ funded with the
first Horizon 2020 Blue Growth calls - the main financial instrument on the EU side to make the
Galway Statement commitments reality.
The Galway Statement contributes to the implementation of the EU’s Atlantic Strategy and its related
Atlantic Action Plan, which considers responses to the challenges of delivering growth, reducing the
carbon footprint, using the sea’s natural resources sustainably, responding effectively to threats and
emergencies and implementing an “ecosystem” management approach in Atlantic waters.
With a view to translating commitments into investments, the European Commission has earmarked
approximately EUR 70 million towards implementation of the Galway Statement through Horizon
2020, the EU Research and Innovation Programme for the period 2014-2020. It will bring together
its main actors and set the ground for the next steps in a coordinated approach.
This event will be the occasion to bring together all the project coordinators and partners, both
from our Member States, from the US and Canada, but also from Brazil and South Africa, which will
contribute to extend this cooperation towards the Southern Atlantic.
Ongoing initiatives from EU Member States but also from our international Atlantic coastal countries
contributing to the implementation of the Galway Statement commitments will also be presented.
This will allow for cross-fertilisation between the different consortia, and pave the way for enlarging
the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance community.
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