Coordinator: Italian National Research Council/ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies/Istituto per le Risorse Biologiche e per le Biotechnologie Marine (CNR-IRBIM)
https://www.cnr.it/
1. The National Inter-University Consortium for Marine Sciences/Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa Consortium)
http://www.conisma.it/en/
2. National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics/ Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS)
http://www.ogs.trieste.it/
3. WWF ITALY (WWF Italia ONG -ONLUS)
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/italy/
4. Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries/Institut za oceanografiju i ribarstvo
http://www.izor.hr/
5. NISEA Società Cooperativa
http://www.nisea.eu/
6. Fundación Oceana (OCEANA)
http://oceana.org/
7. Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (DFA) within the Ministry for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change (DFA, MSDEC)
https://msdec.gov.mt/en/Pages/mdsec%20main.aspx
