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THE SCIENCE-POLICY-STAKEHOLDERS DILEMMA – A SCENARIO ON THE “BLACK SEA-SCENE”
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The Black Sea SCENE Project central goal is to establish a Black Sea Scientific Network of leading research institutes, universities and NGO’s (25 partners) aimed to develop a virtual data and information infrastructure and stimulate scientific cooperation, exchange of knowledge and expertise, and strengthen the regional capacity, providing improved data \& information delivery services for the Black Sea region at European level. Involvement of policy/ decision makers, stakeholders and end-users is one of the strategic objectives of the Project activity targeted in a pro-active manner. The study presents the results of interview-questionnaires of more than 50 institutions from all Black Sea countries. The End-users requirements and feedback on the nature, quality, availability and accessibility of data and thematic maps are discussed as one of the “bottom-up” drivers that fuel the science-policy interactions towards sustainable management practices of the Black Sea ecosystem at basin-wide scale.
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