Smart Marine Conservation Forum Forum

Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speach

• 9:30-10:30 : Opening ceremony
• Elyes Hamza – SPA/RAC Director
• Farchi Cristina – Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (MASE) representative
• Zouhair Amhaouch- Head of the Parks and Nature Reserves Division at ANEF
• Oussama Qostal - Head of the Fisheries Division (DPM) representative
• Houssine Nibani –AGIR Président

10:30 - 10:45 : Presentation of the forum's objectives and schedule

10:45 - 11:00 : Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 : Keynote speeches

Enabling tools for data collection for the assessment and update of the Mediterranean Regional Action Plans for the conservation of threatened species and vulnerable habitats: The Role of UNEP/MAP Barcelona convention by Lobna Ben Nakhla (SPA/RAC)

Recent improvements in data acquisition, processing and management for marine conservation: the role of GFCM by Paolo Carpentieri (GFCM)

Elasmobranchs in Focus: Understanding Population Dynamics, Habitats, and Threats for Effective Regional Conservation Actions by Andrej A. GAJIĆ (Sharklab ADRIA, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

12:30 - 14:00 : Group photo & Lunch

Marine Biodiversity monitoring, observation and conservation and related Databases

14:00-15:40

The Mediterranean Biodiversity Platform: The Mediterranean SDI at the service of Biodiversity Conservation. by Dhia Guezguez

MAPAMED, the database of MArine Protected Areas in the MEDiterranean by Reda Neveu ,Asma Kheriji, Dhia Guezguez & Susan Gallon

The GFCM Database on Sensitive Benthic Habitats and Species byAurora Nastasi

The Italian Marine Ecosystem Restoration Information Platform by Giordano Giorgi

Montenegro Marine ecosystem database by Ivana Mitrovic

15:40 - 16:10 : Coffee break

16:10-17:30

Digital transformation in Citizen Science based Jellyfish Observation Initiatives in Southern European Seas by Dori Edelist ,Emily Roberstson & Dror Angel

Empowering Marine Conservation: Collaborative Monitoring Initiatives between Porto Cesareo MPA and Al Hoceima National Park under SPAMI Twinning Programme by Andrea Piccolio , Antonio Terlizzi, Houssine Nibani & Paolo D’Ambrosio

Results of Midterm Sea Turtle Nesting Monitoring in Libya and their Integration into MBP & IMAP Information System by Almokhtar Saed & Issam Achour

Bridging NASTNet and Adopt-a-Beach Databases for North African Sea Turtle Conservation by Wassim Amdrous, Imed Charkaoui, Mehdi Aissi & Ibrahem Benamer

Fisheries and Aquaculture Data Management

9:00-10:40

Fisheries and aquaculture data in support of the GFCM decision-making mechanism by Federico De Rossi

Increasing trammel mesh size, reduces biomass removal, mitigates discards and increases economic revenue in artisanal fisheries: An example from the Porto Cesareo MPA, Ionian Sea, Italy by Antonio Terlizzi

VISTools: transforming fishing vessels from automatic data-gathering platforms to a Digital Twin of the Ocean by Lancelot Blondeel, Clyde Blanco, Femke Aers, Pedro Rappé, Anthony Van De Sompele, Brahim Al Farisi, Wim Allegaert, Els Vanderperren & Hans Polet

Leveraging Digital Tools for Dolphin Conservation by Alessandro lucchetti , Rocco De Marco, Francesco Di Nardo, Laura Screpanti, Daniele Costa, Benedetta Castagna, Daniel Li Veli, Jure Miočić Stošić & David Scaradozzi

10:40 - 11:00 : Coffee break

11:00-12:40

FAO Calipseo platform: An innovative modular approach to manage fisheries data flow and statistics at national level by Yann Laurent

Importance of database in conservations strategies of vulnerable marine megafauna in the Gulf of Gabès, Tunisia by Bechir Saidi , Samira Enajjar, Anis Zarrouk & Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai

Aquaculture risk metrics - serving multiple stakeholders with digital twins of the ocean by Bente Lilja Bye, Christopher Genillard, Magdalena Schmid & Arne-Jørgen Berre

12:00 - 13:30 : Lunch

Oceanographic Data and Digital Twins of the Ocean

13:30-15:10

Ballast Water Monitoring strategy at the Port of Valencia: A Comprehensive Study on Invasive Species by Rafael Company Peris, Aida Mora Ayuso, Anis Zarrouk, Issam Achour & Valentijn Venus

Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Challenge Simulation Platform: seven years of design, development and application by Harald Warmelink , Magali Gonçalves & Igor Mayer

Towards best practices for global interoperable ocean observing and monitoring for ecosystem-based management including conservation planning by Talen Rimmer , Cora Hoerstmann, Jay Pearlman & Frank Muller-Karger

Littoral in situ data collection using drifting platforms by Marco Amaro Oliveira , José Pinto, Pedro Gonçalves, Miguel Cândido & Rune Oyerhamn

Interoperability and MSP: Enhancing Marine Conservation through Digital Transformation at Al Hoceima Marine Observatory by Houssine Nibani

15:10 - 15:30 : Coffee break

15:30-17:30

EDITO Model Lab: a demonstration of an integrated application of the Digital Twin Ocean by Felix Dols , Lornic Meszaros & Ghada El Serafy

Interoperability and Standards trends and challenges by Piotr Zaborowski

Toward Oceans' twin: modelling approaches from physics to fish and fisheries by Simone Libralato

The downstream operational services sustained by the Copernicus Marine Environment Service for the marine coastal areas of the Black Sea by Razvan Mateescu , Dragos Niculescu, Elena Vlasceanu, Liliana Rusu & Luc Valdenbulche

The Tunisian Coastal Observatory: Integrating Centralized GIS, Real-time Monitoring, and Satellite Observations for Coastal Management by Mouna Ketata

Using the IMAP Info System to collect, manage and share data from monitoring programs along the northern coast of Egypt by Mohamed Abbas Tahoon

Social dinner (offered by AGIR)