April 2013

Steering Committee Meeting in Lebanon

The last Steering Committee meeting for the PEGASO project was held at the University of Balamand in Lebanon on 28-29 January 2013. The purpose of the gathering was to report on the progress of the project, summarize the work done so far and prepare the programme for the upcoming 3rd PEGASO General Meeting. As the project is entering its final year, the participants carefully discussed and agreed on plans for developing the last stages of the work.


The final PEGASO conference will take place in January 2014 in Antalya (Turkey). 2013 will be a busy year for partners as they complete the work and disseminate their results through various events and publications. Several upcoming participatory workshops will bring together researchers and policy makers, scientists and coastal stakeholders to exchange views on issues that cut across the various pilot CASEs. Furthermore, a suite of tools and techniques tested during the project will be integrated into a common analytical framework to form the technical and methodological basis for the ICZM assessment platform.


Several work package leaders attended this meeting in Lebanon to represent the various components of the project: PAP/RAC and Plan Bleu as coordinators of the collaborative ICZM Governance Platform; Ifremer for the development of the "integrated toolbox" aiming at improving coastal management thanks to scientifically-based knowledge and methods; Ca´ Foscari University of Venice which is in charge of follow-up for the 10 collaborative application sites (CASEs) where tools are being applied; IOC-UNESCO for the Integrated Regional Assessment Report; the University of Balamand for activities related to capacity building; MEDCOAST for dissemination activities, and communication of results, and; finally, the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona as project coordinator and for the spatial data infrastructure.


Photo: Members of the Steering Committee



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