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Demonstration of Dune-Dike hybrid blue-grey Nature-based Solutions

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Hybrid blue-grey solutions for coastal safety under climate change

It is essential to mainstream biodiversity into the functioning of marine and coastal dune–dike nature-based solutions (DD-hybrid NbS) in order to safeguard human assets, blue economy activities, and the conservation and restoration of biodiversity. The EU-funded DuneFront project will demonstrate how the integration of nature-based solutions with grey coastal and marine infrastructure can ensure coastal safety under climate change conditions with a sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetic solution. The project aims to co-create DD-hybrid NbS to integrate static complex infrastructure with adaptive, dynamic aeolian and vegetated sediments efficiently. DuneFront will identify critical biological, physical, and socioeconomic boundary conditions and translate evidence on biodiversity from 12 demonstrators along vulnerable European coasts into guidelines for DD-hybrid NbS design and installation.

Objective

DuneFront will demonstrate blue-grey coastal and marine infrastructure as a new generation of sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetic solution to ensure coastal safety under climate change. The project has the ambition to co-create hybrid Dune-Dike Nature Based Solutions (DD-hybrid NbS) that can efficiently integrate static hard infrastructure with adaptive, dynamic aeolian and vegetated sediments. Mainstreaming biodiversity into marine and coastal DD-hybrid NbS is essential to jointly safeguard human assets, blue economy activities and biodiversity gain and restoration. DuneFront will achieve this challenge by identifying key biological, physical, and socio-economic boundary conditions, and by translating evidence on biodiversity, morphodynamics and safety from 12 Demonstrators along vulnerable European coasts into new roadmaps for DD-hybrid NbS design and installation. The integration of this multidisciplinary knowledge into physical and digital twins will pilot the development of a Decision-Support-System, coastal and marine infrastructure Blueprints, and the installation of new prototypes along one of the most recreated coasts. DuneFront will provide a wide range of stakeholders with design, installation and market-ripe business plans for DD-hybrid NbS. Translation of new research and innovations into the DuneFront targeted actions will occur within a full co-creation-procedure.

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01

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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Net EU contribution
€ 1 280 406,35
Address
SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25
9000 Gent
Belgium

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Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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