WatEr LandsCapes sustainability thrOugh reuse of Marine littEr

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Italy - Albania - Montenegro

Date of latest update: 2022-07-22

Description

Description (EN):

Mediterranean beaches are subjected to natural and anthropogenic pressures. In the last years, natural resource exploitation, urbanization, industrial growth, and intensive tourist frequentation severely degraded cross-border coastal dune ecosystems. Beaches are sinks for marine litter (ML), which impacts on the environment as the 10th Descriptor of Good Environmental Status of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive of the EU. ML is a serious threat to biotic communities, ecosystems and biodiversity. Moreover, coastal erosion (CE) and ML lead to the deterioration of beach quality, decreasing the attractiveness of coastal areas for tourism, leading to socio-economic impacts. Often, to stop erosion walls are built in front of the beaches, with a negative impact on environmental quality and attractiveness and clean-up activities are carried out with mechanical equipments that further contribute to CE. These hard approaches were not supported by an adequate knowledge of possible consequences and without a legal and institutional framework for an Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). The WELCOME project is mainly aimed at developing a soft method based on an art-driven reuse of wood ML to make anti-erosion coastal systems in a sustainable, circular economy based approach. The WELCOME project engages 3 competent research institutions (CONISMA, F.GJ.M, UNIME) and 3 experienced public authorities (ML, NCA, JPMDCG) to perform: i) research on ML (including modelling) and ML removal from selected Italian, Albanian and Montenegrin beaches, ii) dune restoration, according to a well-defined methodology, iii) drafting of a ML plan in the frame of ICZM. The involvement of the major stakeholders, including local public administrations, owners of bathing establishments, fishery cooperatives, diving centers, marinas managers, voluntary groups and environmental organizations, will be a key aspect of the cross-border policy-making aim and increase of public awareness on ML and CE.

Website: https://www.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Common Plans enhancing and safeguarding water landscapes (including marine ones).

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main expected results of the project are: i) the set up of integrated initiatives in the field of coastal environmental biodiversity safeguard consisting in the joint development of a cross-border ML plan in the frame of ICZM (based on technical results, on the definition of the responsibilities of the States bordering the Adriatic Sea, on a comprehensive legal framework of all the International and national protocols on ML, etc.) aiming at enhancing and safeguarding cross-border water landscapes, and ii) the creation of a sustainable value chain based on the innovative reuse of ML by artists and architects that will design coastal anti-erosion defense systems for dune consolidation. These main results comply with the Programme’s main result indicator consisting in the development of common plans enhancing and safeguarding marine water landscapes and in the setting up of integrated and well-disseminated initiatives in the field of coastal environmental biodiversity safeguard.

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Waste and pollution

Specific Objective: Increase cross-border cooperation strategies on water landscapes

Thematic Priority:

(b) Protecting the environment and promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, risk prevention and management through, inter alia: joint actions for environmental protection; promoting sustainable use of natural resources, resource efficiency, renewable energy sources and the shift towards a safe and sustainable low-carbon economy; promoting investment to address specific risks, ensuring disaster resilience and developing disaster management systems and emergency preparedness

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare

Department: CoNISMa Local Research Unit of Lecce

Address: Strada per Monteroni snc, 73100 Lecce, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.conisma.it

Total budget: EUR 268 991.86

IPA2 budget: EUR 228 643.08

Agjencia Kombëtare e Bregdetit

Name: Agjencia Kombëtare e Bregdetit

Address: Bulevardi Gjergj Fishta, 1001 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.bregdeti.gov.al

Total budget: EUR 121 363.60

IPA2 budget: EUR 103 159.06

Javno preduzeće za upravljanje morskim dobrom Crne Gore

Name: Javno preduzeće za upravljanje morskim dobrom Crne Gore

Address: ul. Popa Jola Zeca bb, 85310 BUDVA, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.morskodobro.com

Total budget: EUR 128 648.78

IPA2 budget: EUR 109 351.46

Univerzitet Crne Gore

Name: Univerzitet Crne Gore

Department: Institute of marine biology

Address: Dobrota bb,, 85330 Kotor, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.ucg1.ac.me

Total budget: EUR 112 658.40

IPA2 budget: EUR 95 759.64

Comune di Lecce

Name: Comune di Lecce

Address: Via Rubichi, 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.comune.lecce.it

Total budget: EUR 123 229.15

IPA2 budget: EUR 104 744.78

UNIVERSITETI I TIRANËS

Name: UNIVERSITETI I TIRANËS

Department: Faculty of Geology and Mining

Address: Rruga e Elbasanit, 1, 1010 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.fgjm.edu.al

Total budget: EUR 154 357.53

IPA2 budget: EUR 131 203.90

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National Inter-University Consortium for Marine Sciences

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National Coastline Agency

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Public enterprise for coastal zone management of Montenegro

WatEr LandsCapes sustainability thrOugh reuse of Marine littEr

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University of Montenegro

WatEr LandsCapes sustainability thrOugh reuse of Marine littEr

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Comune di Lecce

WatEr LandsCapes sustainability thrOugh reuse of Marine littEr

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UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA

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Summary

Project name (EN): WatEr LandsCapes sustainability thrOugh reuse of Marine littEr

Project acronym: Welcome

Project start date: 2018-04-03

Project end date: 2021-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 909 249.32

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 772 861.92

Co-financing sources:

IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 772 861.92.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Final report on research activities about marine litter in the study area

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://welcome.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Publication date: 2022-01-03

Document date: 2019-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Second joint report on beach clean-ups and garbage management

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://welcome.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Publication date: 2022-01-03

Document date: 2019-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Final report on research activities about marine litter in the study area

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://welcome.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Publication date: 2022-01-03

Document date: 2019-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Lu rusciu te lu mare // WELCOME Interreg IPA CBC Italy - Albania - Montenegro

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://welcome.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Publication date: 2022-01-03

Document date: 2021-04-22

Languages: it

WELCOME Montenegro - Beach cleaning operations

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://welcome.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Publication date: 2022-01-03

Document date: 2021-04-22

Languages: en

Flyers

WELCOME workshop agenda

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Flyer

Data source: https://welcome.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Publication date: 2022-01-03

Document date: 2020-02-07

Languages: it

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Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Italy - Albania - Montenegro

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

2024-03-01

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

80 / 80 (100%)

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

354 / 365 (96.99%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Data from 5 projects (EBIT, G.W.A., LASTING, SME BE SMART and WELLNESS) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2023-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://www.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-22 and 2023-01-05.

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WatEr LandsCapes sustainability thrOugh reuse of Marine littEr

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