AMPERA
AMPERA's objectives:
- Establish priorities in trans-disciplinary research into accidental marine pollution.
- Improve the linkage of accidental marine contamination research with prevention and mitigation activities to underpin and emphasize the role of sound knowledge in decision making.
- Improve coordination of national/regional research programs on accidental marine pollution.
- Designing strategies to overcome barriers that hinder transnational cooperation, with a view to opening up national/regional programs.
- Launch long-term RTD strategies, identifying synergies and complementarities that will act as nuclei for sustainable cooperation among partners and improve the utilization of R&D results .
- Dissemination of knowledge at different levels, emphasizing the science-public interface and the importance of adopting this approach for society in general.