Sea Alarm presents OneX and EUROWILD at the Regional Agreements

Recently, Sea Alarm attended meetings organised by the Bonn Agreement, the Regional Seas Agreement for the North Sea, and the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) to present our latest relevant updates.

At the first meeting, the 16th Meeting of the Focal Points of  REMPEC, Sea Alarm presented as a permanent member of the Mediterranean Assistance Unit (MAU). At the second meeting held by the Bonn Agreement’s Working Group on Operational, Technical and Scientific Questions Concerning Counter Pollution Activities (OTSOPA), Sea Alarm presented in its role as EUROWA Secretariat. At both meetings, Sea Alarm presented papers on the European Oiled Wildlife Response Life-long learning Development (EUROWILD) Project and the OneX serious games workshop which was run in the UK in January.  

The EUROWILD project, co-funded by the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme, is a joint project with ProBird, Submon, WRCO Oostende and WWF Finland. The project supports life-long learning of the EUROWA network, develops new training content and enhances its capability to grow the European pool of experts trained in oiled wildlife response. This will therefore assist Contracting Parties in the Regional Seas Agreements by improving EUROWA’s ability to assist European governments to deal with oiled wildlife incidents.  

The other paper presented at both meetings was about the 2-day OneX workshop recently held in the UK, which aimed to explore the challenges of alternative fuel incident scenarios in an estuary environment close to villages and cities. The OneX serious games have proven to be useful in assisting governments to prepare for future risks using scenario building games and could be considered as a tool for the Regional Agreements to work on a framework for holistic and integrated management in line with their agreed Actions. 

For further information, please contact secretariat@sea-alarm.org