Sixth Framework Programme,Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems
Title: Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem changes
Acronym: SESAME
Coordinator: Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, GREECE
Partners:
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS (LOV, CEFREM, LOB, LMGEM, LOBB, LA, Paris), FRANCE.
- P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, SIO-RAS, RUSSIA.
- ORTA DOGU TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, IMS-METU, TURKEY.
- University of Liege, MARE Interfacultary Research Centre, UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE, ULg, BELGIUM.
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC (IMEDEA, ICMAN, CEAB, ICM), SPAIN.
- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze de Mare, CoNISMa (UniBo, DiSTeBA), ITALY.
- Panepistimion Aigaiou, AEGEAN, GREECE
- Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, IO-BAS, BULGARIA.
- Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research Limited, IOLR, ISRAEL.
- Athens University of Economics and Business - Research Center, AUEB-RC, GREECE.
- Bogazici Universitesi, ECON-BOUN, TURKEY.
- National Council for scientific research, CNRSL-CNSM, LEBANON.
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR (IBF, IAMC, ISAC, ISMAR, IRSA), ITALY.
- Sofiiski Universitet "Sveti Kliment Ohridski", Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Sofia, DMG-SU, BULGARIA.
- Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente, ENEA, ITALY.
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, FEEM, ITALY.
- National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-Ecology, GeoEcoMar, ROMANIA.
- Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploration de la Mer, IFREMER, FRANCE.
- Institute of Biology of Southern Seas A.O.Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, IBSS, UKRAINE.
- Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Institut za Oceanografiju I ribarstvo, IOF, CROATIA.
- Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca scientifica e tecnologica Applicata al Mare, ICRAM, ITALY, ICRAM, ITALY.
- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, OGS, ITALY.
- Fondazione IMC-Centro Marino Internazional-ONLUS, IMC, ITALY.
- Commission of the European Communities, Directorate General Joint Research Centre, EC-DG-JRC, ITALY.
- Institut National des Sciences et Techniques de la mer, INSTM, TUNISIA.
- Marine Hydrophysical Institute Ukrainian National Academy of Science, MHI, UKRAINE.
- National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Marina, NIMRD, ROMANIA.
- National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Nacionalni Institutza Biologijo, NIB, SLOVENIA.
- National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Climate Dynamics Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, ITALY.
- The National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, NIOF, EGYPT.
- Panepistimio Kyprou, UCY, CYPRUS.
- South Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, SSC-RAS, RUSSIA.
- Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn', SZN, ITALY.
- Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, UNITIBLISI, GEORGIA.
- Universitat de Barcelona, UB, SPAIN.
- Universitat de Huelva, UHU, SPAIN.
- Universitaet Bremen, Uni-HB, GERMANY.
- University of Crete, UoC, GREECE.
- Physical Oceanography Unit, University of Malta, IOI-MOC, MALTA.
- Polytechnic University of Marche Universita Politecnica delle Marche, UNIVPM, ITALY.
- Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULCO, FRANCE.
- University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet olden burg, ICBM, GERMANY.
- University of Plymouth, UoP, UK.
- Cyprus International Institute of Management, CIIM, CYPRUS.
- CLU srl, CLU, ITALY.
- SOPAB BREST SA, OCEANOPOLIS, FRANCE.
- Interfusion Services Ltd (subcontractor), Cyprus
SESAME is a 4-year European Union-funded project designed to study the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems and their abilities to provide goods and services with high societal importance, such as tourism, fisheries and ecosystem stability through conservation of biodiversity. The need for consistent information, together with the indispensable linking of natural and socio-economic sciences, on these two ecosystems have mapped out SESAME's research path. Both the Mediterranean and Black Sea have been experiencing intensive development and exploitation due to their strategic geographical position, and are equally susceptible to human pressures and climate change. SESAME has been suitably created to assess the changes that have occurred in these ecosystems over the last 50 years , while simultaneously predict changes in the ability of the two seas to sustain essential ecosystem functions in the next 50 years. For more information you can refer to the Project's website: http://www.sesame-ip.eu .