Project description
Digital protection and restoration management in the Mediterranean
Nature-based solutions (NBS) and digitalisation can help facilitate protection and restoration efforts. The EU-funded EFFECTIVE project is dedicated to establishing a comprehensive scientific knowledge base and providing guidance for the application of ecosystem-based management (EBM) to rehabilitate the EU’s Mediterranean Blue Natural Capital. This involves scientific research, technology, NBS, digitalisation and considerations of social implications. The project aims to implement EBM in four pilot areas: Mar de l'Empordà, Ebro Delta, Sardinia Septentrional, and Cavo Greco. It aims to create an ecological corridor in the Mediterranean Sea, assess marine protected areas, showcase the use of NBS for seabed protection, address existing gaps in legislation, and introduce a digital tool for data exploration and citizen science participation.
Objective
The EFFECTIVE main objective is to develop a comprehensive scientific knowledge base and practical guidance, combining science, technological nature-based solution, digitalization, and social implication for the application of the Ecosystem-Based management to the protection and restoration management of the EU’s Mediterranean Blue Natural Capital.
To ensure the success of this main objective, the EFFECTIVE project counts on partners with broad expertise in relevant areas covering all the three pillars of the EBMS (from applying research stages until companies) as follows: managerial pillar, information pillar, and participation pillar and also a nature-based solution. In addition, this project provides the implementation of the EBMS in four pilot areas (Mar de l’Empordà, Ebro Delta, Sardinia Septentrional, Cavo Greco) towards protection and restoration solutions, besides taking into account the connectivity between three of them through the existing Cetacean Migration Corridor.
To achieve the EFFECTIVE main objective, the following 5 specific objectives (SO) are identified:
SO 1. Apply EBMS to identify, analyze and extend an ecological corridor in the Mediterranean Sea, connecting habitats and biodiversity.
SO 2. Apply EBMS to analyse and extend the status of [4] MPA in the Mediterranean Sea.
SO 3. Demonstrate [4] nature-based seabed protection and restoration solutions, including preserving seabed carbon sequestration capacity, in a real environment.
SO 4. To identify limiting factors, gaps and recommendations of existing MPA legislation regarding environmental and anthropogenic pressures, setting up links with previous projects.
SO 5. To implement an innovative digital data visualization and aggregation tool in the form of a Digital Twin for enabling data exploration, research, participation and citizen science.
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08007 Barcelona
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6300 Larnaca
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2632 BD Nootdorp
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D02 XE80 LOWER DUBLIN
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1070 Wien
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18697 Almunecar Granada
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70013 Irakleio
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16154 Genova
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2970 Hoersholm
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19013 Attikia Anavissos
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08007 Barcelona
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18119 Rostock
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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65009 Odessa
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9000 Varna
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28006 Madrid
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20121 Milan
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1019 BX Amsterdam
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08030 Barcelona
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00184 Rome
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
BT7 1NF BELFAST
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