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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Science and Technology Advancing Governance of Good Environmental Status |
| Research Area | Water |
| Project Acronym | STAGES |
| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Marieke Reuver (IE) |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | AquaTT |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.33560, -6.26662 |
| Lead Funding Entity | European Commission |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 01/09/2012 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 31/08/2014 |
| Project Website (if any) | www.stagesproject.eu |
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| Project Keywords | Marine Strategy Framework Directive; Good Environmental Status; Knowledge defecit; Filling gaps |
| Project Abstract | The Marine Strategy Framework Directive is designed to deliver Good Environmental Status (GES) in EU marine waters by 2020. This Directive requires that Member States (MS) with marine territories put in place measures to achieve and maintain GES within a defined timeframe and according to eleven key descriptors of environmental status. However, there is a significant knowledge deficit which may hinder full implementation of the MSFD and the achievement of GES in EU waters. STAGES (Science and Technology Advancing Governance on Good Environmental Status) project is designed to directly address this knowledge deficit. The project has two overarching goals: i) To synthesise per major MSFD themes the information from research projects. To develop a platform to ensure that the knowledge generated through European science and technology can be channelled to a broad range of relevant end users, to inform and facilitate implementation of the MSFD and the achievement of GES. To achieve this, STAGES targets a number of critical gaps in the knowledge transfer process.The partnership has been constructed to include a combination of EU/international organizations which can represent a broad constituency of MSFD stakeholders, and national organizations with responsibility to support research and provide advice on MSFD implementation at MS level. |