Project description
Nature-based solutions to increase marine climate resilience
The EU Mission "Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030" (Mission Ocean) aims to protect and restore the health of our ocean and waters. The EU-funded A-AAgora project will demonstrate via technological, social, logistic and economic innovation actions the reduction of pressures in coastal areas, through the application of ecosystem-based management and nature-based solutions to boost resilience to climate change and mitigate its impacts. A-AAgora will carry out demonstration activities in the Atlantic and Arctic basin and co-identify areas and locations where the solutions are replicable. Moreover, it will draw up blueprints and roadmaps to replicate and scale up the ecosystem and biodiversity restoration solutions and actions, contributing to Mission Ocean’s development and the piloting phase of the Atlantic-Arctic basin lighthouse.
Objective
A-AAgora aims to develop the implementable NbS (Nature based Solutions) through innovative governance structures and technological architecture. It targets to boost resilience to climate change and mitigating its impacts in coastal areas. It identifies synergies by promoting a deliberative process to complement other priority areas within the EC Mission - by setting a Community of Practice and developing a digital knowledge system. It develops NbS at three replicable demonstrators (Demo-PT, Demo-IE, Demo-NO), which can upscaled. The project seeks improved public engagement and enhanced decision-making processes at different political levels based on scientific knowledge and targeted social and economic awareness, using an EBM approach. It builds on the successful implementation of NbS at the Demo’s to which the necessary socio-technological tools will be produced as required for a realistic EBM planning cycle (up to TRL/SRL 7). The Living Lab concept will foster the exchange synergies at multiple scales between researchers and users, decision-makers and local communities, industry and SMEs. A-AAgora will demonstrate that restoration of aquatic ecosystems is possible at a large scale through reduction of pressures, EBM, and effective NbS including blue reforestation to boost coastal resilience to climate change impacts. As well, the A-AAgora will make the most of cross-Mission synergies, by targeting marine ecosystem restoration in coastal communities particularly vulnerable to the risks of sea level rise that urgently need to adapt to ensure their population and infrastructure are safe, climate-proof and weather-resilient. The design of innovative architecture, enabling interoperability with other systems and will also foster a more ‘digital ocean’.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologylimnology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemscoastal ecosystems
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Participants (28)
68000 Colmar
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24118 Kiel
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24113 Kiel
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Dundalk Co Louth
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060042 Bucharest
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00100 Helsinki
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3000-069 Coimbra
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3834-590 GAFANHA DA NAZARE
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3080-271 FIGUEIRA DA FOZ
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3800 127 Aveiro
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2611 865 Amadora
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1749 077 Lisboa
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3830-565 ILHAVO
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4450-251 Matosinhos
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T12 R2NC Cork
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T12 YN60 Cork
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D01W6X0 Dublin
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D08H67X Dublin
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9060 Lyngseidet
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9130 Hansnes
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9019 Tromso
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7034 Trondheim
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0579 Oslo
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9008 TROMSO
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1099 085 Lisboa
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2520-614 Peniche
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4450-309 Matosinhos
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9700-702 ILHA TERCEIRA
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Partners (2)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
M14 7FZ MANCHESTER
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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