Ricardo Serrão Santos, the new Minister of the Sea, will participate in an international conference on “Stress in the Ocean” to be held on 11 and 12 November, at the Green Amphitheater of the University of Algarve (UAlg), Campus de Gambelas, Faro.
The Minister of the Sea will be present at the opening session, scheduled for 9:30 am.
In addition to the government official, Alan Simcock, coordinator of the United Nations Integrated Ocean State Assessment Group of experts, the president of the Portuguese Committee for UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Luís Menezes Pinheiro, as well as Miguel Marques, coordinator, will also be present at this initiative. PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC's) Global Blue Economy Center of Excellence.
Also present will be Carlos Martins Andrade, responsible for the Galp Energia Research, Innovation & Technology area, and José Marques, president of the Mission Structure for the Celebrations of the V Centenary of the Circum-Navigation of Fernão de Magalhães.
This panel of distinguished guests is also joined by Maria João Bebianno, professor at UAlg and coordinator of CIMA, who is part of the Portuguese delegation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a member of the group of experts of the Regular Process of State Assessment Marine Environment, including United Nations Socio-Economic Aspects.
Inserted in the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the University of Algarve, this conference “Stress in the Ocean. From multidisciplinary approaches to transdisciplinary research” «it also intends to make known some of CIMA's contributions to the development of a more solid science in the field of marine and environmental research, during its 20 years of existence», says UAlg.
Likewise, it is also intended to look at current and future trends - the recognition of the importance of solid scientific knowledge, the holistic and multidisciplinary nature of ocean affairs and the link between science and society - and reflect on the role that CIMA and, ultimately, Portugal can play in the coming decades.
According to Maria João Bebianno, coordinator of CIMA, “the Center has accompanied the important changes that have taken place in environmental and marine scientific research and that are currently shaping the future of science, particularly in three main areas: in solid scientific knowledge; in the deepening of the interrelationship between different areas of knowledge, in the need for an integrated holistic view of the state of the marine environment, as it has been promoted by the United Nations, and in the growing awareness of the need for a stronger link between science and society, highlighted in all relevant national and international forums and in the Sustainable Development Goals agenda».
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