The EnvEurope project was proposed (November 2008) and approved (November 2009) within the Component “Environmental Policy and Governance” (EPG) of the Programme LIFE + 2008.

The project started in January 2010 and will last 4 years, until December 2013.

EnvEurope is under the Coordination of Italy. The Coordinating Beneficiary is the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR) .

The project, which is the most relevant in terms of participants number (11 Countries, 16 European partners) and EC co-financing, among those approved in LIFE+ 2008, fits into one of the main objectives of the component LIFE+ EPG (“Strategic Approach”): strengthening the European process SEIS (Shared Environmental Information System) and the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiative, in a context of ecological knowledge transfer from the scientific world to the environmental policies.