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Programme updated on 6th of November

Tuesday, 6th of November

09.00

Steering Committee meeting

Chair: Horst Korn, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

17.00

Biostrat meeting

Chair: Katalin Török, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

19.00

Get together

Praia da Luz (http://www.praiadaluz.pt/)
(departure by BUS at 18.30h from meeting venue)

 

Wednesday, 7th of November

08.15

Registration

09.00-09.30

Opening session

 

Chair: Joăo Coimbra, Interministerial Council for the Marine Affairs

 

Henrique Miguel Pereira, Director Norte do ICNB, Ministry of Environment (Portugal)

 

- Organisers: Aims of the meeting
Isabel Sousa Pinto, Chair of the Organising Committee

09.30-10.30

Key note presentations

 

- DG Research
Manuela Soares, Director of the Directorate I – Environment

 

- DG Environment
Robert Flies, Advisor,  Directorate B - Protecting the Natural Environment

 

- Estrutura de Missăo para os Assunto do Mar
  Miguel Sequeira- Head of EMAM

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-13.00

Key note presentations

 

Chair: Julius Oszlanyi, Institute of Landscape Ecology of SAS

 

- Interactions between global change and marine biodiversity – what we know and need to know to allow for a more efficient protection of marine biodiversity and to ensure the sustainable use of the marine environment.
Katja Philippart, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

 

- Using long-term observations, in parallel experiments and modelling to measure and manage global environmental change and its interaction with regional and local impacts on biodiversity.
Steve Hawkins, College of Natural Sciences, University of Bangor

 

- Summary of e-conference sessions 1 and 2
Pippa More, Marine Biological Association

 

 - Examples from scientific challenges posed to the implementation of the new marine policies
Peter Herman, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO)

 

- Discussion

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Key note presentations

 

Chair: Tiiu Kull - Estonian University of Life Sciences

 

- Tiago Cunha – Cabinet of Commissioner Borg, DG Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

 

- Are Marine Protected Areas Effective Tools for Sustainable Fisheries Management
Andrew Pullin and Michel Kaiser,
University of Bangor

 

- Challenges of conservation and sustainable use of deep-sea ecosystems
Ricardo Serrăo Santos, DOP - University of the Azores

 

- Summary of e-conference session 3
Ruth Higgins, IMAR/ University of the Azores

 

- Discussion

16.00-16.30

Coffee break

16.30-16.45

Joăo Sentieiro, President of the FCT, Ministry of Science and Higher Education

16.45-17.00

Presentation of the working groups and objectives

17.00-19.00

Working groups – 3 parallel sessions

19.00

Leaving for visit

 

Thursday, 8th of November

 

08.30-10.30

Working groups (3 parallel sessions)

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-12.00

Second session of working groups

12.00-13.00

Presentations

 

Chair: Peter Skoberne, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning - Slovenia

 

- Biodiversity science and the contributions of ICES
Adolf Kellermann, ICES

 

- Diversitas - role in GEOSS, IMOSEB and collaboration with EPBRS
Anne- Hélčne Prieur-Richard, Diversitas

 

 - Marine Biodiversity in the new “Strategy for the Marine and Maritime Research”
Carlo Heip, NIIO and NIOZ

 

- Discussion

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Panel on the organisation of Marine biodiversity research: between research on biodiversity and marine/maritime sciences
 

Carlo Heip – Coordinator of NoE Marbef

Adelino Canário – NoE Marine Genomics Europe

Simon Tillier – Coordinator of the NoE EDIT

Phill Whaver  - Coordinator of IP HERMES

Jaques Weber – Coordinator of the ERA-NET Biodiversa

Woulter Los – Coordinator of the Research Infrastructure Life Watch

 

16.00-16.30

Coffee break

16.30-16.45

Presentation of the state of the art of the document(s)

16.45-18.30

Session of the working groups or working session in plenary

19.00

Leaving for dinner

 

Friday, 9th of November

 

08.30-11.00

Final session for the approval of the recommendations

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.30

EPBRS business

Chair: Host Korn

 

- Report on the state of NBPs and the Vilnius meeting
Katalin Török, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

- Marine biodiversity research in Europe (Biostrat questionnaire report)
Agnés Marhadour, Centre for Marine and Environmental Research, U. Porto

 

- Communication from the Steering Committee
Horst Korn, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

12.30

Invitation to the Slovenian EPBRS meeting

Peter Skoberne, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning - Slovenia

13.00

Closing of meeting

13.00

Lunch

 

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