{"id":56322,"date":"2026-05-26T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/?post_type=activity&#038;p=56322"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:21:23","slug":"the-blue-horizon-water-seas-islands-and-coastal-futures-reimagining-the-mediterranean-blue-economy","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/activity\/the-blue-horizon-water-seas-islands-and-coastal-futures-reimagining-the-mediterranean-blue-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Horizon: Water, Seas, Islands, and Coastal Futures Reimagining the Mediterranean Blue Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>Dr. <strong>George Dikaios<\/strong>, ELIAMEP Senior Research Fellow, moderated a panel at the <strong>9th Mediterranean Forum of Circle the Med<\/strong> on Tuesday 19 May, during which opportunities and challenges for implementing strategies in the context of promoting the blue economy were discussed and a number of actions were presented. The European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, <strong>Costas Kadis<\/strong>, welcomed\u00a0the\u00a0discussion with an opening statement. The panel included: Ambassador <strong>Olivier Poivre d&#8217;Arvor<\/strong>, Special Envoy of the French President for the Oceans and the Poles; Dr <strong>Heba Sharawy<\/strong>, Undersecretary of Environment of Egypt; Dr <strong>Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou<\/strong>, Member of the Hellenic Parliament and Special Envoy of the Greek Prime Minister for the Oceans; <strong>Isabelle Ryckbost<\/strong>, Director General of the European Sea Ports Organization; <strong>Genevi\u00e8ve Pons<\/strong>, President and Director General of Europe Jaques Delors; and <strong>Maria Damanaki<\/strong>, former European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and Vice-President of the Board of Directors of ELIAMEP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.circlethemed.com\/vod\/circle-the-med-9th-edition\/s\/the-blue-horizon-water-seas-islands-and-coastal-futures-reimagining-the-mediterranean-blue-economy\">Click<\/a> to watch the discussion.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":56323,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[26],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity\/56322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=56322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}