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Tracy Edwards: The Ocean chose me!

July 26, 2019

Tracy Edwards is a British sailor known for being the first woman to command a female crew in the Ocean Race in 1989, for which she received the Yachtsman trophy, awarded to a woman for the first time. Tracy’s life is full of records and recognitions; during her teenage years she began to get involved… » read more

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Céline Liret: The Ocean has guided my professional career.

May 10, 2019

Céline Liret is the scientific and cultural director, and the curator of Oceanopolis. This ocean discovery park located in Brest is both an aquarium and a centre for scientific and technical culture. This park is mainly focused on the sea environment and aims at developing the general public audience’s sensitivity towards a sustainable use of… » read more

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Boosting women in seafood and ending gender inequality. A call to the seafood community: time for commitment and change is now!

March 8, 2019

March 8, International Women’s Day, has become the day of the year to highlight what women do and review progress. Some workplaces have joined in celebrating this day, featuring heartening commitments to gender equality. But it is also frequent to see in the workplace the omission, forgetfulness or ignorance of what this day commemorates: the… » read more

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Eileen Crowley: “This role gives me an opportunity to influence the strategic direction”.

October 5, 2018

Eileen Crowley is the Manager of Research & Innovation at the National Maritime College of Ireland. She has worked for 16 years in local and regional government in the field of strategic planning and sustainable development. With a BA in European Development Studies and an MA in Town & Country Planning, she moved to the… » read more

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Women in the Seafood Industry Video Competition 2018

September 26, 2018

  Out of 15 excellent videos the International Jury had difficulties to select the winners for the Women in the Seafood Industry Video Competition 2018; two videos arrived neck to neck and they decided to keep four winners from Spain, Mexico, Canada, and India. #1 Puntada Invisible This video brought out the most clearly how… » read more

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Marie Christine Monfort: “Women are felt less legitimate than men in seafood industry”

September 3, 2018

Marie Christine Monfort is the co-founder and president of the International Organisation for Women in the Seafood Industry (WSI), an organization dedicated to raising awareness of gender issues in all seafood-related industries: fishing, fish farming, processing, research, trading… Economist with a classic academic background (MSc International trade; MSc economy), started working in this field almost… » read more

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Did you ever hear about an interregional brand?

August 25, 2018

ATBRAND is a European project co-financed by the ERDF Funds through the INTERREG Atlantic Area IVB programme, born to promote transnational cooperation between the Atlantic regions. Lasted from the 01.01.2014 to the 30.06.2015, it was led by Dublin City Council in collaboration with Liverpool, Cardiff, La Rochelle, San Sebastián, Faro and the Conference of Atlantic… » read more

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Atlantic Cities

Ideas on cohesion policy, Urban Agenda and urban excellence and territorial Cooperation and the Atlantic macro-region.

Atlantic Cities is a network of territorial cooperation, based on the particular identity and challenges of the cities of the Atlantic Arc in the European Union. Created in 2000, the Atlantic Cities has asserted its position as an Atlantic Urban Forum, facilitating both the cooperation among its members and with other European and Atlantic Arc actors, creating awareness in the European institutions about issues concerning the cities in the Atlantic arc.


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