BRIDGE-BS was a Horizon 2020 project (2021 – 2025) that advanced the Black Sea’s marine research and innovation capacity in order to co-develop blue economy pathways under multiple stressors for the sustainable use of ecosystem services. It developed an ecosystem-based management framework to enable policy uptake and foster citizen engagement.
Key results and tools include innovations in environmental monitoring, data integration, climate scenario modelling, analysis of the resilience of Black Sea ecosystems, their ecosystem services and tipping points, smart sensor technologies, and decision-support tools to support ecosystem-based management. Through co-development with local communities and policy makers, key management measures for a resilient and productive Black Sea were identified to ensure the long-term sustainability (to 2050 and 2100) of the Black Sea’s blue economy. The BRIDGE-BS Digital Twin Ocean (DTO) demonstrator combines many of these tools into a virtual representation of the Black Sea to support policy makers in informed decision making. This will assist with the identification of a safe operating space for the Black Sea, respecting ecosystem boundaries, within which a sustainable blue economy can flourish.
The document is available for download in English, Turkish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Georgian.
A short summary of the document and recommendations is available to download in English here.
You can find out more about the BRIDGE-BS project here and EMB’s involvement here, and read the news article about the publication launch here.