Minutes of MARS Network meetings

• MARS Steering Committee meeting, February 2008, Yerseke
• Ad hoc MARS Executive Committee Meeting, August 2007, Kiel
• Annual MARS Executive Committe Meeting, November 2006, Naples
• Third MARS Conference of Directors, November 2006, Naples
• MARS SC meeting, June 2005, Amsterdam
• MARS meeting, March 2004, Bruges
• MARS conference of Directors: the future of marine research stations in Europe, November 2003, Amsterdam
• MARS Executive Committee meeting, March 2003, Barcelona
• MARS Executive Committee meeting, March 2002, Amsterdam
• MARS Executive Committee meeting, Summer 2000, Venice
  
• MARS Excecutive Board meeting, March 1999, Paris
  

Training courses on marine biodiversity are organised within the MARS framework. The first course was organized in February 1998 in Banyuls-sur-mer, France, entitled 'European Practical Training Course on Marine Biodiversity' (in cooperation with TMR-CNRS).

List of past events

• 10-17 May 2004: Baltic Course on Adaptive Strategies of Benthic Animals in Tidal and Non-tidal Systems, organised under the colours of Gdansk university (Poland) in cooperation with CEME-NIOO, the Netherlands. Contact: Dr Adam Sokolowski
• 2-4 April 2004: 2nd Marine Biology Postgraduate Workshop organised by the Marine Biological Association (with the University of Plymouth and UoW-Bangor) in Bangor (UK)
• 17-19 March 2004: The first MarBEF General Assembly and kick-off meeting took place in Bruges (Brugge), Belgium
• 20-24 November 2003: Conference on Genetic Biodiversity in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems held in Florence. The Florence conference is being organized as an activity of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS) and under the Italian Presidency of the European Union
• 25-26 November 2003: 'Preparing the future of marine research stations in Europe' meeting of the third MARS conference of Directors will be held in Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• 6-17 October 2003: Fifth MARBENA e-conference on Genetic Biodiversity in Marine Ecosystems. The conference is being organized by MBA, the Marine Biological Association of the UK in discussion with ENEA, the Marine Environment Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy, and will inform the physical conference on 'Genetic Biodiversity in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems' being organized for 20-24 November 2003 and to be held in Florence
• 5-8 July 2003: BioPlatform Meeting in support of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy, with discussion on „Biodiversity research strategy and structure in the Acceding and Candidate Countries”, held in Bialowieza, Poland
• 2-12 June 2003: Fourth MARBENA e-conference: Newly Associated States and Marine Biodiversity Research - Are marine biodiversity problems different for NAS as compared to other EU countries? The results will be presented at BIOPLATFORM meeting in Belovesha, Poland 5-8 July to discuss Biodiversity research strategy and structure in the NAS: preparing for FP 6
• 29-31 May 2003: Conference on Sustainable Development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Environment was held in Thessaloniki, Greece. During the Greek Presidency of the EU
• 23-26 May 2003: The European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS) meeting under the Greek EU Presidency will be held in Molyvos (also known as Mythimna) on Lesvos, Greece
• 7-20 April 2003: Third MARBENA e-conference: Marine Biodiversity in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 'The known, unknown, unknowable and the value', ran from 7 to 20 April 2003
• October 24 2000, Workshop : To a European Regulation of Scientific Diving Banyuls-sur-mer (France)
• October 13-15 2000 Mars conference of directors, Venice
• March-April 2000 (Paris or Venice) - MARS-DIVERSITAS-MARS General meeting 2001- MARS-DIVERSITAS-ESF/EmaPS Euroconference
• July 1 2000 Meeting of the executive committee of the European Marine Research Stations Network Venice
• April 1999 (Yerseke, NL) - DG XII-MARS-ESF/EMaPS-DIVERSITAS Workshop: Establishing a framework for the implementation of marine biodiversity research in Europe
• September 1998 (Wilhelmshaven, De) - MARS-EMBS Round Table on Biodiversity Research in Europe
• May 1998 (Lisbon, Pt) - EU-MAST European Federation of national scientific organisations is presented. Discussion Meeting on Infrastructure for Biodiversity Research
• February 1998 (Banyuls-sur-mer, Fr) - TMR-CNRS-MARS European Practical Training Course on Marine Biodiversity
• December 1997 (Yerseke, NL) - ESF/EmaPS-MARS EmaPS initiative on marine biodiversity. European action plan on marine biodiversity
• September 1997 (Sorrento, It) - MARS-NAML-DIVERSITAS Marine DIVERSITAS planning group. Creation of IMBiN: International Marine Biodiversity Network
• September 1996 (Middelburg, NL) - MARS-NAML Meeting. Basis for links between European and US marine station networks
• March 1996 (Plymouth, UK) - CEC/MAST-EERO-MARS Workshop on biodiversity. An inventory of marine biodiversity research projects in the EU/EEA member states

• CEC: Commission of the European Communities
• EERO: European Environmental Research Organisation
• EMBS: European Marine Biology Symposium
• EmaPS: European Marine and Polar Science Secretariat
• ESF: European Science Foundation
• MAST: Marine Science and Technology programme
• NAML: The National Association of Marine Laboratories (USA)
• CNRS: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• TMR: Training and Mobility for Researchers