Most high-level speakers at the EurOCEAN 2010 conference identified the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on “Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans” as the relevant scheme to meet grand challenges faced by marine and maritime research community, such as the development on an integrated network of marine observatories.
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2010.10.18
Research Commissioner flags JPI Ocean again
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science encourages science to respond to societal challenges. In her speech at the marine science community’s triennial conference in Ostend last week, EurOCEAN, she stressed the importance of better value for money from research investments.
2010.08.16
The director is appointed
Mrs. Kathrine Angell-Hansen has been appointed as the director for the secretariat of the Joint Programming Initiative for Healthy and productive Seas and Oceans.