On the 10th and 11th of November the EurOcean Steering Committee (held at EMSA: European Maritime Safety Agency in Lisbon, Portugal) approved a number of decisions concerning the future of EurOcean, and reinforced the strategic  importance of EurOcean as an European Marine Information Network, the next meeting is expected to early October 2010 at GeoEcoMar, Romania.

Left to right: Ana Teresa Caetano - DG Research; Sandra Sá - EurOcean; Nicolae Panin - GeoEcoMar; Geoffrey O'Sullivan - MI; Ricardo Serrão Santos - FRCT; Manuel Cira - Nausicaä; Cristina Costa - EurOcean; Joan Albaiges - SEA-ERA; Cherif Sammari - INSTM; Emilio Martin Bauza - EMSA; Slawomir Sagan - IOPAS; Salvino Busuttil - MCST; Isabelle Legrand - Nausicaä; David Murphy - AQUATT; Per Nieuwejaar (President of EurOcean)- IMR; António Pascoal - FCT; Giuseppe Magnifico - CNR; Telmo Carvalho (EurOcean Executive Director)- EurOcean; Jean François Masset - IFREMER; Mário Ruivo; Niall McDonough - Marine Board; Tiago Capela Lourenço - CIRCLE2; Demetrio de Armas - IEO, Rita Silva - EurOcean

Presentations of the Open Session

FP7 projects with the participation of EurOcean

EUROFLEETS – Per Nieuwejaar
MARINETT – David Murphy
SEAS-ERA – Joan Albaiges
CIRCLE2 – Tiago Capela

European Integrated Maritime Policy

DG Mare - Iain Shepherd
DG Research - Ana Teresa Caetano

(16/11/09)