Project description
Empowering communities to safeguard coastal biodiversity
Coastal ecosystems face escalating threats from biodiversity loss, endangering communities reliant on their resources. Human activities such as pollution and overfishing exacerbate these challenges, jeopardising the delicate balance of marine life. As coastal populations bear the brunt of these impacts, urgent action is imperative to safeguard both livelihoods and biodiversity. In response, the EU-funded PRO-COAST project emerges as a beacon of hope. By integrating cutting-edge science with societal needs, PRO-COAST pioneers a holistic approach rooted in the social ecological systems framework. Across nine diverse case studies, spanning EU and non-EU regions, PRO-COAST collaborates with local stakeholders to co-create tailored solutions. With 20 organisations from 14 countries, PRO-COAST unites expertise, fostering resilience and sustainability in transformative coastal communities.
Objective
PRO-COAST will develop, apply and validate a cutting-edge operational framework in the study of coastal ecosystem dynamics for the benefit of the population most exposed to risk deriving from biodiversity loss. Such a framework needs to tackle the complex social-ecological issues at hand, particularly so because these issues involve a dynamic perspective on the social as well as its interaction with the ecological system. Hence, the PRO-COAST framework will be based on the integrative Social Ecological Systems framework (SESF), based on the seminal work of the late Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom. PRO-COAST will apply and validate its holistic framework for identifying the interactions and dynamics of the different subsystems in a set of nine representative case studies located on the European continent, both in EU and non-EU areas, covering all five European coastal regions. The coastal ecosystem is the common thread running through all the case studies, but each one presents a specific issue and framework. In each case study we will co-create together with local stakeholders a set of tools and policies for the successful implementation of biodiversity conservation projects. Two approaches (the Bristol Approach & the Extreme Citizen Science (ECS) framework) to co-creation will be used to develop and establish a participative approach, which is, by virtue, responsive to local contexts. In line with PRO-COAST’s overall objective to increase capacity and resilience within the transformative communities a change process will be initiated, taking into account technical and social capacity. While the technical side of the change comprises new technologies and services regarding biodiversity, the social side of the change focuses on the human’s openness and readiness for change. To achieve its goals, PRO-COAST brings together 20 organisations across 14 different countries, selected on criteria of experience, expertise and most of all complementarity and interdisciplinarity.
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- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- social sciences political sciences political policies civil society
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
MAIN PROGRAMME
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HORIZON.2.6.2 - Biodiversity and Natural Resources
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HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-09 - Understanding the role of behaviour, gender specifics, lifestyle, religious and cultural values, and addressing the role of enabling players (civil society, policy makers, financing and business leaders, retailers) in decision making
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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