Abstract:

ESNET project is working in the frame of the Joint Operational Programme “Black Sea Basin 2007-2013” financed by EU and national co-financing. The project objective is to contribute to the prevention of natural disasters generated by earthquakes in Black Sea basin by developing a joint monitoring and intervention concept between the partner countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Turkey, see Fig. 1). Its duration is 24 months starting in March 2012 and has five major groups of activities. In the end of project implementation the disaster potential, with accent on the seismic risk degree and the earthquakes effects in the intervention area will be assessed, an integrated seismic monitoring and intervention concept will be developed and the capacity of local emergency intervention units for joint response activities in case of disasters will be increased. The present paper describes the expected crossborder impact of the action, its methodology and final results and outputs for the project’s beneficiaries.