“Green Atlantic for Sustainable Development” is both a process of integration and development of competences and methods aimed at creating a European platform of expertise and action for maritime and environmental safety issues.

“GASD” will integrate past and current work and use this as a basis for working on environmental issues and making recommendations, from a broader perspective (economic, human resources, science etc), on durable operational solutions built on the common policies of the Atlantic area – Europe.

It will introduce for the first time within the framework of interregional co-operation, a concrete vision, integrated and operational from the perspective of sustainable economic development, based on an innovative approach to maritime safety and applied to the collective maritime activities of the partner regions. This vision will be translated into practical demonstration actions on which can be built European policies and regulations integral to maritime safety, technical, scientific and technological innovation, and economic development.