EU / UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)

Project name: EMBLAS (Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea)

Grant Agreement Number: 84971

Implementation period: 2013-2014

Objectives and tasks: Project is aimed at strengthening the capacities of Georgia, Russian Federation and Ukraine for biological and chemical monitoring of water quality in the Black Sea in line with the EU water-related legislation. The following activities are to be carried out:

Review of national systems and tools for assessing data obtained from monitoring activities;
Support to implementation of countries obligations underthe Bucharest and other related Conventions and Agreements;
Development of cost-effective and harmonised biological and chemical monitoring programmes in accordance with reporting obligations under multilateral environmental agreements, the WFD and the MSFD;
Elaboration and implementation of the comprehensive training programme on monitoring methods and quality assurance aiming at adhering to ISO 17025 standard, promotion
Prepare methodology for Joint Black Sea Surveys;
Development of the web-based Black Sea Water Quality Database prototype

Organization - Coordinator: UNDP Europe and the CIS Bratislava Regional Centre (BRS),
Grosslingova 35, 81109 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Tel.:+421 2593 371 11

EMBLAS Coordinator: Vladimir Mamaev, Regional Technical Advisor for International Waters

Partners (Consortium members):

Ukraine (5 organizations):

Marine Hydrophysical Institute (MHI)
OdessaNational I. I. Mechnikov University (ONU)
Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES)
A.O.Kovalevskiy Institute of Biology of Southern Seas (IBSS)
OdessaBranch, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (OB-IBSS)

Georgia (2 organizations):