The Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science (CeSSS) the
projects under the 5th Framework Programme. The Centre is designed to
strengthen co-operation among leading centres and bridging the Western
and Eastern European shelf seas experts. The specific objectives of the
CeSSS, contributing to the integration with the European Research Area
are: to direct the Centre's potential towards advanced fields of
physical and chemical oceanography and the ecology of shelf sea systems
through the organisation of conferences, workshops and exchange visits,
to improve links with outstanding marine centres in the EU (especially
in the countries around the Baltic Sea and European Arctic Seas), to
re-establish links with leading marine universities and institutes in
the Newly Associated States and Russia, to organise international
co-operative research cruises on board the Centre research vessel
Oceania, to extend existing PhD studies focused on oceanology and
fishery to postgraduates from abroad, and to disseminate the results of
the Centre's activities to the scientist communities and people living
along sea coasts.
Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science
