Objective:
To strengthen the economic and social development of the Azores through the identification of areas within which cooperative research activities and programs that can promote this development in support of the 1995 U.S.-Portugal Agreement on Cooperation and Defense as further defined in the Final Minute to that agreement.

Approach:
Cooperators will address how Trans-Atlantic cooperation can help strengthen economic interests in the Azores, especially in the area of fisheries, in the context of a Trans-Atlantic Forum. This forum would establish a dialogue among leading researchers, policy-makers and analysts for the USA and Europe/EU to reflect and debate, in a direct and informal manner, the main issues in the Trans-Atlantic research agenda.