Pegaso is a collaborative project between 25 Mediterranean and Black Sea institutions and organisations that seeks to identify the instruments needed, and to build the capacity for implementing the principles of the new Protocol for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in the Mediterranean and its applicability in the Black Sea. The ICZM Protocol is a novel agreement that formalizes an integrated coastal management between the riparian countries based on the ecosystem approach.

The core of the project is the development of an ICZM Governance Platform that could be used to share data and information to bridge the science and decision-making; producing innovative tools and testing them in countries, case studies and in the whole basin. Doing that, Pegaso will produce a common understanding on priority issues and institutional perspectives affecting the coastal and marine areas of the two regional seas.