Pegaso (« People for ecosystem based governance in assessing sustainable development of ocean and coast ») is a collaborative project between 25 Mediterranean and Black Sea institutions and organisations that seeks to assist Mediterranean countries to put into practice the Protocol for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in the Mediterranean and its applicability in the Black Sea. The ICZM Protocol is a novel agreement that formalizes an integrated coastal management between the riparian countries based on the ecosystem approach.

The core of the project is the development of an ICZM Governance Platform that could be used to share data and information to bridge the science and decision-making; producing innovative tools and testing them in countries, pilot case studies in several regions. Doing that, Pegaso will produce a common understanding on priority issues and institutional perspectives affecting the coastal and marine areas of the two regional seas.