A Draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea Basin: Discussion Document

SEAS-ERA (Towards integrated European marine research strategy and programmmes) WP 6 - Task 6.1A key deliverable of Work Package 6.1 of the FP7 SEAS-ERA Project (May 2010 – April 2014) is to develop a draft Marine Research Plan as an input to the preparation of a Strategic Marine Research Agenda for the European Atlantic Sea Basin. This Discussion Document is designed to engage European Atlantic stakeholders in a wide ranging debate on the content and priorities to be addressed by such a draft Research Plan and will be used by the SEAS-ERA Atlantic partners to inform a series of Consultative Stakeholder Workshops scheduled to take place in 2012 (www.seas-era.eu/np4/events).EU FP7 Grant Agreement Number 249552Funder: European Unio