Integrated Aquatic Resources Management Between Ireland, NI and Scotland (IBIS Project)

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The overall aim of the proposal is to meet a range of environmental priorities for delivering high quality policy and sustainable management of freshwater and marine natural resources and the biodiversity they support across the programme area. Specific aims of this project are to: • Conduct a research programme to address applied aquatic resource management questions common to the cross-border programme area • deliver high quality training in field of freshwater and marine resource management • promote public and stakeholder understanding and awareness and aquatic resource management issues through knowledge transfer • enable skills transfer and development for practitioners of freshwater and marine resource management and biodiversity of biodiversity • develop cross border partnerships and collaborations between agencies, institutions and NGOs with aquatic resources management interests that will persist beyond completion of the project • provide world class facilities supporting training, research and skills sharing in aquatic ecosystems and their management into the future

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