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Enhancing social well-being and economic prosperity by reinforcing the eFFECTIVEness of protection and restoration management in Mediterranean MPAs

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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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01

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Coordinator

ASOCIACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO NAVAL Y DEL MAR
Net EU contribution

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€ 828 125,00
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CTRA EL ESTRECHO LOBOSILLO KM 2 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE FUENTE ALAMO
30320 Fuente Alamo Murcia
Spain

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Sur Región de Murcia Murcia
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€ 828 125,00

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