The document outlines the BlueBridge initiative, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program, aimed at enhancing blue growth through innovative applications and ecosystem-based governance of large marine ecosystems (LMEs). It describes the purpose and expected outcomes of capacity building activities such as knowledge generation, partnership building, and adaptive management, along with various components designed to support governance and policy integration. The initiative fosters a global support network for managing marine resources effectively, leveraging tools and strategies to address key issues in marine management.

1. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
LME:LEARN & IOC Capacity
Building Activities
Ivica Trumbic
Chief Technical Advisor LME:LEARN
i.trumbic@unesco.org Supporting Blue Growth with
innovative applications based on
EU e-infrastructures
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IOC-UNESCO: The marine
side of UN
UNESCO domains in natural sciences
• Fresh water
• People and nature
• Oceans
• Basic and engineering sciences
• Coastal regions and small islands
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IOC:Building knowledge and capacity
building for sustainable ocean
management
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LME: LEARN
• Strengthening Global Governance of Large
Marine Ecosystems and Their Coasts through
Enhanced Sharing and Application of
LME/ICM/MPA Knowledge and Information
Tools
• Implemented by UNDP, executed by IOC-
UNESCO and financially supported by GEF
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PURPOSE
• improve global ecosystem-based governance of Large
Marine Ecosystems and their coasts by generating
knowledge, building capacity, harnessing public and
private partners, and supporting south-to-south
learning and north-to-north learning
• identifying the priority issues affecting governance of
the LMEs, along with their associated coastal zones,
and marine protected areas, as well as their underlying
root causes, and by integrating these in a global
ecosystem-based governance framework founded on
global coordination and cooperation.
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OUTCOMES
• establish a dynamic global support network for
the GEF LME, MPA, and ICM projects for a wide
variety of practitioners
• increase the capacity of nation States to realise
adaptive ecosystem-based management and
governance
• achieve a multiplier effect using demonstrations
of learning tools and toolboxes, to aid
practitioners and other key stakeholders, in
conducting and learning from GEF projects
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LME:LEARN Components
• Component 1: Global and regional network of partners to
enhance ecosystem-based management and to provide
support for the GEF-IW LME/ICM/MPA projects to address
their needs.
• Component 2: Synthesis and incorporation of knowledge into
policy-making, capture of best LME governance practices, and
development of new methods and tools to enhance the
management effectiveness of LMEs and to incorporate ICM,
MPAs and climate variability and change including the 5 LME
modules.
• Component 3: Capacity and partnership building through
twinning and learning exchanges, workshops, and training
among LMEs and similar initiatives (e.g., Seascapes).
• Component 4: Communication, dissemination and outreach
of GEF LME/ICM/MPA project achievements and lessons
learned.
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IOC Capacity Development
Strategy
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• Comprehensive Learning Management System
(OceanTeacher)
• Classroom training (trained nearly 2000
students from 120 countries since 2005)
• e-Learning Platform widely available
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LME:LEARN Capacity
Development Activities
Tools for broad ecosystem-based management
• Governance
• Environmental economics analysis,
• Stakeholder participation in environmental policy,
• LME strategic approach,
• LME assessment,
• LME project development,
• Marine Spatial Planning
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Web portal
• Fully interactive web site (marine.iwlearn.net)
• Marine hub: Outreach product
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LME:LEARN Training Programme
• Toolkits transformed into training modules
• MOOC on Large Marine Ecosystems
• Economic valuation of „wet” ecosystem
services
• Regional training
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Potential linkages
• Marine Hub: use of information on CC
projections and biodiversity
• Training on specific subjects: aquaculture and
fisheries, MSP
• Data management
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