Managing European Shoreline and Sharing Information on Nearshore Areas

Programme 2000 - 2006 Interreg IIIC West

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

The overall objective of this project is to set up a network of local authorities, national administrations, and coastal interest groups located in six European countries, in order to find new and innovative techniques for managing coastal erosion and coastal planning processes. Ultimately, MESSINA aims to maximise the benefit of future investments in coastline management and to raise public awareness about the need to manage the coastline in a sound and sustainable way.

Achievements (EN):

Achievements so far 'Monitoring European Shorelines and Sharing Information on Nearshore Areas' operation is now completed after three years of activities with the goal of improving the coastal local management and bring methods and tools to afford local authorities to drive their coastal management policies. MESSINA partners have brought together their experience and built a Coastal Toolkit comprising Practical Guides on (i) existing monitoring and modelling techniques for coastal local management in Europe; (ii) valuing methods compared as a basis to elaborate local shoreline management plans; (iii) engineering techniques advantages and drawbacks compendium with focus to innovative techniques in Europe and abroad; (iv) GIS tools implemented and recommended to help the decision-making process at local level, integrating either monitoring/modelling methods or valuing concepts applied on concrete coastal case-studies around Europe. Using a common methodology applied to produce intermediate outputs and within a first phase of 'marketing' the project through local thoughts and lobbying to local authorities, the partners have perceived a real enthousiasm and reported the expectations from local level coastal management. The second and crucial phase occurred with lots of local investigations, field surveys, data collection, stock taking so as to compile the essential information needed to produce a State-of-the-Art in all domains retained. Further 'Success Stories' documented as Case-Studies have been compiled as Best Practices examples to endeavour Recommendations as part of MESSINA Practical Guides. As a basis of compilation into Practical Guides, a series of workshops has been organized to present, discuss and validate the recommendations made. Results have been dissimenated before the summer 2006 through mailing and operation's website. The occasion was given to expose to the coastal international community the MESSINA Coastal Toolkit produced during the Littoral2006 international conference event held in Gdansk from 18th to 22nd of September 2006. MESSINA partners also invited the attendees of Littoral2006 and its Post-Conference Trip to take part on September 23/09/06 to a Conference in Rewal (PL) where a presentation of the GIS coastal integrated features for spatial planning was made, as a concrete real application of the activities made for and with the local coastal authority of the Rewal Municipality. All relevant informations regarding the MESSINA operation and especially the MESSINA Coastal Toolkit can be seen and downloaded from the operation website www.interreg-messina.org

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Governance, partnership

Partners (14)

Lead Partner: IGN France - International

Address: 39 ter, rue Gay Lussac, @ Paris, France

Legal status: n/a

Erosionsskadecentrum

Name: Erosionsskadecentrum

Address: Nya Rådhuset, 271 80 Ystad, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Address: Largo S. Marcellino, 10, @ Napoli, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Name: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Address: Edifici A -campus de la UAB, @ Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vall, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Ville de Sète

Name: Ville de Sète

Address: 20 bis rue Paul ValérySète, France

Legal status: public

Rijksinstituut voor Kust en Zee

Name: Rijksinstituut voor Kust en Zee

Address: Kortenaerkade 1, 2500 EX The Hague, Netherlands

Legal status: n/a

Urzad Gminy w Rewalu

Name: Urzad Gminy w Rewalu

Address: ul. Mickiewicza 19, 72-344 Rewal, Poland

Legal status: n/a

Statens Geotekniska Institute

Name: Statens Geotekniska Institute

Address: Olaus Magnus gata 35, 581 93 Linköping, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

Università degli Studi di Messina

Name: Università degli Studi di Messina

Address: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Salita Sperone, 31, @ Messina, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Provincia regionale di Ragusa

Name: Provincia regionale di Ragusa

Address: Viale del Fante, 10, @ Ragusa, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Uniwersytet Szczecinski

Name: Uniwersytet Szczecinski

Address: al. Jednosci Narodowej 22A, 70-453 Szczecin, Poland

Legal status: n/a

Ystadskommun

Name: Ystadskommun

Address: 271 80 Ystad, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

Communauté d'Agglomération du Bassin de Thau (CABT)

Name: Communauté d'Agglomération du Bassin de Thau (CABT)

Address: Immeuble "le Président" - route de Sète, @ BALARUC LES BAINS, France

Legal status: n/a

Isle of Wight Council

Name: Isle of Wight Council

Address: County Hall, High Street, PO30 1UD Newport, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Managing European Shoreline and Sharing Information on Nearshore Areas

Project acronym: MESSINA

Project start date: 2004-01-01

Project end date: 2006-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 723 008.60

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 956 146.95

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Financing programme

2000 - 2006 Interreg IIIC West

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2018-10-30

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

75 / 75 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

919 / 919 (100%)

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Managing European Shoreline and Sharing Information on Nearshore Areas

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