Collaborative lAnd Sea inTegration pLatform

Objective

The goal of the COASTAL project is to formulate and evaluate business solutions and policy recommendations aimed at improving the coastal-rural synergy to foster rural and coastal development while preserving the environment. Rural development in the EU is increasingly affected by changing market developments, decreasing population densities, urban sprawl, lack of employment, desertification and other environmental, economic and social pressures. On the other hand, coastal areas provide interesting business opportunities but are also influenced by economic activities in the hinterland. Multi-Actor Approaches will be combined with System Dynamics to analyse the environmental, economic, and social interactions of rural and coastal areas in a holistic manner. The underlying feedback structures governing the dynamics, vulnerabilities, limitations, and business opportunities of the land-sea system will be identified and analysed, taking into consideration the regulatory frameworks, stakeholder priorities and social-economic conditions at the local, regional and macro-regional scale levels. Multi-Actor Labs using qualitative and quantitative tools will be set up to support the co-creation exchanges between scientific experts, stakeholders, business entrepreneurs, sector- and administrative representatives. The project will be structured around six closely interacting work packages with six complementary case studies in Sweden, Belgium, France, Spain, Greece and Romania.

Fields of science

• social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
• social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment

Keywords

• Multi-Actor Lab
• Co-Creation
• Land-Sea Synergy
• Participatory
• System Dynamics

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme
• H2020-EU.3.2.1.3. - Empowerment of rural areas, support to policies and rural innovation
• H2020-EU.3.2.5. - Cross-cutting marine and maritime research

Topic(s)

• RUR-02-2017 - Coastal-rural interactions: Enhancing synergies between land and sea-based activities

Funding Scheme

Coordinator

Participants (28)