Descripción del proyecto
Transición verde a través de las comunidades costeras
Las comunidades costeras son importantes para mantener climas saludables y lograr la transición a un mundo más sostenible, verde e inclusivo. Por desgracia, en muchos casos, las políticas, la financiación y las soluciones novedosas no tienen en cuenta a estas comunidades, ya sea haciendo cambios ineficaces u olvidándolas por completo. En el proyecto EmpowerUs, financiado con fondos europeos, se establecerá una red de seis laboratorios costeros de transición en las regiones costeras de la Unión Europea. La red promoverá nuevas metodologías eficaces para la formulación de políticas inclusivas. El trabajo de EmpowerUs mejorará la innovación social y la autosostenibilidad, lo que permitirá mejorar cada comunidad e impulsar un futuro más verde.
Objetivo
EmpowerUs will enable coastal communities to act for change and transition towards sustainable, inclusive and resilient coastal developments. We assume that true empowerment implies R&I should catalyze, facilitate and support coastal communities in the acquisition of power through a variety of tools, methods and coproduction with the inclusion of all actors, at local, regional, national and European levels.
EmpowerUs will develop an adaptive transformation mechanism via on a network of six Transition Coastal Labs (TCLs) across all EU coastal regions. Recognising that no one solution will address the myriad of challenges coastal communities face, the EmpowerUs transformation mechanism will be adaptive and based on a multi-actor transdisciplinary approach.
The project will co-create, pilot and evaluate Tailored Empowerment Programmes that include a portfolio of social innovation and Nature-Based Solutions. By facilitating capacity building through improved understanding of challenges, barriers and enablers of change and increasing Ocean Literacy through nature connectedness and cultural heritage, EmpowerUs will support social innovation and self-sustaining communities. The EmpowerCoast digital twin/digital GIS platform will ensure the EmpowerUs mechanism is available to all coastal communities to uptake and use to support sustainable action.
EmpowerUs consortium is balanced, complementary and transdisciplinary with key expertise in socio- economic technical, and ecological issues and the science-policy needed to achieve the project’s aims and objectives. EmpowerUs will provide innovative platforms to empower citizens to take transformative actions in line with EU policies to meet global challenges including biodiversity degradation and climate change at a local scale, supporting just, inclusive and sustainable coastal development.
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Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-CL6-2021-COMMUNITIES-01
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
8049 Bodo
Noruega