Full partners
DiSVA,Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy – Carlo Cerrano (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
CIRSA, Università di Bologna, Italy – Massimo Ponti (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
ECOMERS, Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France – Luisa Mangialajo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
DEH, Universidad de Murcia, Spain - José Antonio García Charton (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
DZMB, University of Athens, Greece – Nicolaidou Artemis (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece - Sofia Reizopoulou (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
UBICA Underwater Bio-Cartography s.r.l., Italy – Marco Palma (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Associated partners
Portofino MPA, Tavolara MPA, Ustica MPA, Tremiti Island MPA (Italy)
Parc National de Port-Cros (France)
Management Agency of Messolonghi lagoon (Greece)
Reserva Marina de Cabo de Palos e Islas Hormigas (Spain)
Studio Associato GAIA snc (Italy)
Med Ingegneria srl (Italy)
OceanScan Marine Systems and Technology Lda (Portugal)
European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), grant agreement n°: 290056.
Amount : 2.853.430,57 € (633.255 € to ECOMERS)
January 1st 2012 – December 31st 2015
- MMMPA aims to train the next generation of MPA scientists and managers, equipping them with a flexible set of scientific and management skills essential within a wide range of professional environments. In particular, researchers will mature the experience in a highly interdisciplinary network, leading in taxonomy, ecology, biology conservation, bio-cartography, and socio-economy.
- The University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis hosts two ESRs students and one ER. The first PhD research is focused on the conservation and restoration of marine forests, in particular, on the relationships between seaweeds and herbivorous fish, the prospects for artificial structures forestation and the evolution of Fucales in MPAs. The objectives of the second PhD research is to understand the trophic relationships and the energy flows in coastal rocky ecosystems, in order to feed some models (ECOPATH, ECOTROPH) that allow simulations of variations in the trophic nets.