The MARE OUTPOST in the Port of Tricase

The MARE Outpost, founded by CIHEAM Bari whithin the territorial cooperation project “BIG” (Greece-Italy 2007-2013), in partnership with the Town of Tricase, the Magna Grecia Mare Association, the University of Salento and the Regional Park “Costa Otranto, S. Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase”, is a place of coordination and animation of a Mediterranean system of Institutions, social and cultural Organizations, communities and individuals, all engaged in a smart and sustainable growth in coastal areas.

It is a crucial knot in a network of communities, devoted to small-scale fishing, that are rich of unique traditions and thousands year old cultures, an immense natural heritage, and engaged in following a common route for a sustainable fishing in the Mediterranean.

It is synergistically integrated in the Port-Museum of Tricase, and its main activities are in the area of international cooperation, in support of the development of coastal communities and in monitoring and protection of biodiversity.

MARE Outpost is a place for university, post-graduate and professional training, and for cultural dissemination.