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Project in brief Storms, rise of sea level, floods, erosion of dunes, salt water intrusion: the effects of climate change are accelerating with devastating consequences for coastal areas. Sandy coastlines are even more exposed since they represent ecosystems which are very sensitive to climate change and soil occupancy such as urbanization, tourism and infrastructures. To tackle in a sustainable m ...
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Mediterranean Experience of Eco-Tourism (MEET)

Start date: Jan 16, 2013, End date: Dec 15, 2015,

The project in briefAccording to the World Tourism Organization, eco-tourism is a major trend with a growing demand of consumers for packages which offer responsible travel to natural areas, conservation of the environment and improvement of the well-being of local people. The Mediterranean area is the one of the most interesting regions in the world in terms of eco-tourism potential. The high div ...
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Sustainable domestic Water Use in Mediterranean Regions (SWMED)

Start date: Aug 31, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The whole Mediterranean area is characterized by a strong need of new solutions able to provide and sanitations services while reducing water use and wastewater discharge. The SWMED project focuses on the optimisation the per capita water consumption at household and urban level through the implementation of water saving devices, reuse of treated wastewater, rainwater harvesting, a pool of technol ...
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Coastal erosion and flooding represents a major threat for the well-being and prosperity of the 70mi Europeans living within 500m from the coastline and their assets of 500- 1000bi€. Lost or seriously impacted area by erosion is estimated to be 15 km2/year. The Nobel Prize laureate UN-IPCC estimates that by 2020 due to Climate Change victims of coastal erosion or flooding will reach 158,000/year, ...
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Common Land for sustainable management (COMMONS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

COMMONS project faces the challenge of territorial management in marginal lands in the framework of a continuous concentration of former rural population towards urban or peri-urban areas. Important natural areas risk environment depletion because of changing in the utilization patterns and abandoning of traditional practices. Some of these areas correspond to ancient common lands once managed for ...
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Coastal strips, especially those between the sea and land, are morphologically sensitive and depend on a delicate equilibrium between marine processes and sediment deposits. The partner regions are all exposed to a greater or lesser extent to coastal erosion. This erosion has worrying effects on the environment, which are aggravated by the rising sea level, deepening of the sea bottom, more freque ...
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The operation deals with the following problems: 1) how and to what extent European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) strategies are taken into account in land planning and management procedures in local and national contexts; 2) how the sharing of experience in local land management can increase effective implementation of the ESDP. Overall objective / Objectif général The aim of the operati ...
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Sharing Solutions on Structural Funds (S3)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Aug 30, 2006,

Regional and local authorities are increasingly involved in the elaboration and implementation of EU policies For instance, in EU regional policy they are involved in programming, managing, monitoring and evaluating Structural Funds programmes. To enhance institutional capacities and the success of authorities in dealing with Structural Funds, regions need to develop new ways to involve local stak ...
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COASTGAP springs after more than 10 years of shared experiences among many Mediterranean coastal Administrations and Institutions in the field of coastal adaptation to CC effects and other natural/anthropogenic threats. In 2011 these actors established the cluster FACECOAST (www.facecoast.eu) and propose COASTGAP in order to capitalize 12 Best Practices from 9 projects of the cluster (from MED and ...
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The main idea of the project is to improve the competitiveness of port systems in the MED area by improving accessibility through technology and procedural innovations, and guaranteeing sustainability of transport. The idea focuses on the realization of interoperable management information systems (WP5) and on the reduction of externalities (WP6). The project addresses three strategic sectors: fre ...
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