We are excited to announce the launch of the BlueC project ,co-funded by the European Union under the Interreg NEXT Black Sea Basin Programme.

Project name:" Carbon Binding Blue Black Sea."

Project code and acronym: BSB00020 – BlueC

Description:

The vegetated habitats of seas, in particular mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses, cover <0.5% of the sea bed. These form earth’s blue carbon sinks and account for more than 50%, perhaps as much as 71%, of all carbon storage in ocean sediments. In the future, blue carbon management and monitoring will become an important issue.

Therefore, this 30-month-long action aims at enabling macrophytes and the marine vegetation formations to be preserved by suitable management tools, which will ensure that these formations are protected, their degradation are prevented, and they are allowed to be maintained in a satisfactory state of conservation.

These management tools will include GIS integration and remote sensing technologies will be utilized in all modelling and mapping activities.

Leading Partner: Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi, Tekirdağ, Turkey

Project Partners:

Institute of Marine Biology, Odessa, Ukraine

Ecological Counseling Center Cahul, Moldova

Burgas Regional Tourism Association , Burgas, Bulgaria,

Programme priority: Blue and Smart Region

Duration: 30 months

08/2024 - 02/2027

Total budget: 897.143,62 Euros

EU funding: 807.429,24 Euros