Kick-off meeting (15 June 2017, Brussels)

Dear Participants,

First of all, I would like to thank you also on behalf of my colleagues for your very active and enthusiastic participation at the 1^st Meeting for developing a Blue Growth initiative for Research and Innovation in the Black Sea. This was an important meeting which allowed us to set the scene for the development of a future research and innovation agenda for the Black Sea.

Kind regards

Sigi with all colleagues

Below you can find a set of documents related to the first meeting:

The draft summary of the meeting without the comments received (to be updated): Summary.docx

The participants' list is also available: Scanned_Attendance List_ListOfParticipants_15.06.2017.pdf

The meeting agenda: Meeting_agenda.pdf

The minutes of the 3rd meeting of the IMP contact points of the coastal countries (27.10.2017): Annex 3_email_part 3.pdf

The 4th Black Sea stakeholder conference on blue economy: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/maritimeforum/en/node/4048

(registration code: "Attendee")

The presentations received so far:

1. Prof Vangelis Papathanassiou <vpapath@hcmr.gr>: BlueMed + Black Sea.ppt

2. Dr Baris Salihoglu <baris@ims.metu.edu.tr>: BlackSea_BG_Salihoglu.pdf

3. Dr Ємельянов Володимир Олександрович <eva@nas.gov.ua>: PREZENTATION_Brussel_IEMELIANOV.ppt

4. Dr Meladze <giorgi.meladze@tsu.ge> (on behalf of Prof Kakha Bilashvili - wocean@telenet.ge)  Presentation1111 (2).doc