Nested Environmental status Assessment Tool is a validated tool for the integrated, consistent and comparative assessment of biodiversity status and good environmental status across European regional seas and the uncertainties related to this assessment.

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NEAT itself as an assessment method is not restricted to the MSFD but can be used for various other assessment needs.

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NEAT includes also the DEVOTool - a catalogue of marine biodiversity indicators, giving the possibility of using your own indicators or choosing between 600 different indicators from biodiversity, presence of non-indigenous species, commercial fishing, food-webs, eutrophication, and sea-floor integrity, to different ecosystem components like bacteria, plankton, fish or seabirds to give a holistic assessment of the sea.

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In the NEAT webpage you can download the software and its manual. You can also access supporting bibliography, including examples of NEAT application in several case studies.

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VENUE:

The course will be held in the University of Aveiro (Portugal), located in the Campus de Santiago. It will take place in Room 1.30 of the Department of Biology (building no. 8).

See map.

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COURSE REQUISITES:

• You will need to bring your own laptop to the course.

• Prior to the course please download and pre-install the NEAT software latest version 1.3 in your laptop. The installation steps are explained in section 3 of the  NEAT manual.

• It is advisable to bring some data to the course to test the tool in your own data during the sessions.

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For additional information please contact Dr. Heliana Teixeira: heliana.teixeira(at)ua.pt