Common Value Black sea - Let The World Breathe

The overall objective of the project is to determine the coordinates of the sea meadows in Igneada and Pomorie bays and make them accessible for everyone via a mobile application, to prevent the extinction of sea meadows because of the wrong fishery methods, to raise awareness among fishermen via giving information about sea meadows.
The project envisages two sea surveys – one in Turkey and one in Bulgaria including scanning of the seacoast and locating the sea meadows. Mobile Application will be developed providing access for everyone to the coordinates of the identified sea meadows. Seminar of Sea ecosystems presenting both surveys results will be presented. At the Alamana Festival a declaration for future cooperation will be signed.
As a result of the implementation of the project, the coordinates of the sea meadows in Igneada and Pomorie bays will be determined and access to them via a mobile application will be made, as well the awareness among fishermen via giving information about sea meadows will be raised. The fish breathing and breeding by protecting their living areas will be enabled.

Status of the project: completed

Seagrasses, the basis of marine ecosystems that currently produce 70% of the oxygen in the atmosphere, are endangered due to global warming, pollution and unconscious hunting methods. The main axis of our project is to determine by partners the spread and position of seagrasses on the coasts of Igneada (TR) and Pomorie (BG) so that give contributions to EU “Water Framework Directive”, “Marine Strategy Framework Directive” and “Interreg Ipa CBC BG-TR 2014-2020 Programme” Priority axis 1 “Environment” etc. As a result of sea surveys, maps were produced and determined the locations of seagrasses. Produced with the maps, off-line mobile phone applications published on the market with in trilingual.  Fishermen took a seminar by Academic Consultant on seagrasses and marine ecosystems, both side trainings provided in the seminars contributed to sustainable fisheries. The Festival Meeting developed a dialogue with fishermen of the two countries, visibility ensured with media publications, mobile applications, press-conferences, interviews with project website. Signed declaration at the end of Festival is part of institutional and political sustainability as well, because connects representatives of both cross-border regions on policy level and guarantees future cooperation between them.

All project outputs were published on the project website. https://commonvalueblacksea.org/