Between now and the end of 2013, the CAMIS project aims to:
- Develop a series of tools to promote sustainable maritime governance of the Channel area including:
an Integrated Maritime Strategy defining objectives and detailing actions to achieve them;
a Cross-Channel Forum to pilot a new joint approach to dealing with issues of common interest;
a Cross-Channel Resource Centre to highlight key stakeholders and projects, to enable best practice to be shared and to make data and recommendations available to policy makers;
a Cross-Channel Scientific Committee made up of a multidisciplinary group of experts.
- Carrying out concrete actions around 4 themes:
Workforce development: promoting mutual understanding of the French and British training systems, identifying and exchanging best practice, developing concrete cooperation projects;
Innovation and maritime clusters: exchanging best practice and identifying possibilities for cross-border clusters around 4 sectors: marine renewable energy, marine leisure activities, sustainable marine operations and marine ecosystem management;
Transport: making recommendations to improve synergies and complementarities between transport policies and infrastructure projects on both sides of the Channel;
Maritime safety: developing activities to improve the capacity of local authorities along the Channel coastline to better deal with marine pollution.
- What is an "integrated maritime strategy"?
The CAMIS integrated maritime strategy is a document which aims to set out a series of common objectives and propose concrete solutions to address the key challenges faced by the Channel area.
It has three main elements:
- Encompassing both maritime and terrestrial issues;
- Taking into account a whole range of maritime issues (fisheries, maritime transport, the marine environment, marine research, marine energy production, marine industries, maritime safety, tourism, maritime jobs etc.)
- Drawing on the results of a large consultation of stakeholders involved in the current and future development of the Channel area.
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Visit the CAMIS website: http://camis.arcmanche.eu/home/?setLang=en
