HarmoNIA
Harmonization and Networking for contaminant assessment in the Ionian and Adriatic Seas
HarmoNIA (Harmonization and Networking for contaminant assessment in the Ionian and Adriatic Seas ) project is financed by Interreg ADRION Programme - objective 2.2. HarmoNIA intends to address the heterogeneity in methodological approaches and in the information used for Good Environmental Status assessment (GES, sensu MSFD) and to overcome the fragmentation in geographical coverage of data availability on contaminants. The specific objectives of the project are: to share best practices to support the harmonized implementation of marine environmental directives in the ADRION region to strengthen the network of data infrastructures to facilitate access and re-use of marine data among countries bordering the Adriatic – Ionian Seas to support a coordinated approach in case of pollution dispersion accidents and define a common strategy to assess contaminant dispersion risk along the coast. The overall goal is to establish an Adriatic – Ionian network of agencies and institutes in charge in the assessment of marine contaminants, define best practices to tackle monitoring, assessment of impacts due to contamination, to collect and make accessible through a common and already available infrastructure regional datasets of contaminants for the Adriatic – Ionian region and to propose a regional strategy for a shared and harmonized evaluation of the risk due to contaminant dispersion from different sources of pollution.