Benefits

The Maritime Safety Umbrella Operation will create a synergy between Interreg projects and programmes that allows:

• Capacity building by regional and local organisations to improve their ability to address maritime safety issues
• Identification of similar maritime safety issues, problems in approach and gaps in the knowledge base
• Development of joint working approaches to problem solving
• Integration of maritime safety with coastal zone management and sea area/ocean spatial planning
• Enlargement of a joint knowledge base to close information gaps in individual projects
• Provision of a network of maritime safety professional contacts
• Assistance in the development of future funding opportunities
• Promotion of a co-ordinated pragmatic voice to speak at the European and International level on maritime safety issues,
• Guidance for future Programme development with respect to maritime issues