Sustainable and Resilient Coastal Cities

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

Date of latest update: 2024-12-17

Description

Description (EN):

To enable nature-based solutions (NBS) to be mainstreamed into the coastal flood defence systems of coastal urban areas, either as stand-alone projects or integrated into existing grey infrastructure, utilising natural adaptative responses to build climate resilience to sea level rise. The overall objective is to create a replicable approach across the 2 Seas coastal communities to build more climate resilience across their urban landscapes to sea level rise, tidal surges and storms via NBS.

Achievements (EN):

The main aim of the SARCC project was to help mainstream NBS into coastal management and policy. To achieve this, the project successfully completed several outputs. The project implemented 7 pilots with nature-based solutions in the 4 different Member States. Before building the pilots, the urban partners worked on their coastal management strategies, by defining a specific strategy for their coastal city. Furthermore, the project developed several methods and services to improve the adaptation capacity to climate change: a new framework and monitoring tool, a nature-based solution capacity programme and a visualisation toolkit for local stakeholders. The pilots have received a lot of attention, and pilot partners have been approached a lot by interested parties for information and requests for site visits. This is particularly the case for the Vlissingen pilot, where, for example, the city was approached by the Delta commission who is initiating a project with pilots and would like Vlissingen to be involved in order to learn from their case. The project also received attention from UNESCO and the UN. The project was presented as best practice when using the maritime cultural heritage to understand the long Duree and integrate these concepts within The Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development. A Position Statement in support of this issue was formally presented to the UN following the UN Oceans Conference in 2022 and a further SARCC presentation was given at the UN Water Conference in 2023. Cross-border cooperation facilitated NBS mainstreaming. Partners learned from a model of stakeholder cooperation for NBS & coastal protection in the other states. The pilots across the Programme area resulted in a lot of information collected & lessons learned inspiring decision-makers. Partners themselves feel they have more options available than grey infrastructure and feel that because of SARCC they will be more likely to get approval for NBS alternatives in the future. SARCC has also been successful in generating public support for NBS. The achievements of the SARCC project will effectively help mainstreaming nature-based solutions into coastal management and policy making within the 2 Seas area and beyond.

Website: https://www.sarcc.eu/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

The main outputs of the SARCC project are: - A new Framework and Monitoring Tool for the selection of the most suitable nature-based solutions to deploy along coastal urban landscapes; - A nature-Based Solution Capacity Programme to engage with urban decision-makers, leaders and officers involved in coastal management; - A Visualisation Toolkit for local stakeholders (citizens, businesses) to support the approval of Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Management; - 7 Nature-Based Solution Investments, highlighting added value in comparison to traditional grey infrastructure; - A strategy to Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions into long-term coastal management strategies of the Urban Partners. Check the “Outputs” section below to download related material and see “Main Achievements” section for further information about the achieved results.

Thematic information

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

Specific Objective: Improve the ecosystem-based capacity of 2 Seas stakeholders to climate change and its associated water-related effects

Thematic Objective: (05) promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management by:

Investment Priority: (05a) supporting investment for adaptation to climate change, including ecosystem-based approaches

Partners (14)

Lead Partner: Southend Borough Council

Department: Department for PLACE

Address: Victoria Avenue, SS2 6ER Southend on Sea, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 037 494.11

ERDF budget: EUR 622 496.47

Katholieke Hogeschool Vives Noord

Name: Katholieke Hogeschool Vives Noord

Department: Industrial Sciences & Technology Department

Address: Lijndraaiersstraat 60, 8400 Oostende, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 370 259.90

ERDF budget: EUR 222 155.93

HZ University of Applied Sciences

Name: HZ University of Applied Sciences

Department: Delta Applied Research Centre Resilient Deltas & Building with Nature

Address: Edisonweg 4, , 4382 NW Vlissingen , Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 370 987.56

ERDF budget: EUR 222 592.54

Stad Oostende

Name: Stad Oostende

Department: Public Space

Address: Vincitivelaan 1, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 164 662.46

ERDF budget: EUR 698 797.47

Gemeente Middelkerke

Name: Gemeente Middelkerke

Department: Department of Town Planning, Environment and Facility

Address: Spermaliestraat 1 , 8430 Middelkerke, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 642 445.40

ERDF budget: EUR 985 467.24

Agentschap Maritieme dienstverlening en Kust

Name: Agentschap Maritieme dienstverlening en Kust

Department: Coastal Division

Address: Vrijhavenstraat 3, 8400 Ostend, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 010 048.84

ERDF budget: EUR 606 029.31

Vlaams Gewest

Name: Vlaams Gewest

Department: Department of the Environment - Coastal Zone Management Flanders (T.OP Kustzone)

Address: Koning Albert I-laan 1-2, 8200 Brugge, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 438 958.95

ERDF budget: EUR 263 375.37

Technische Universiteit Delft

Name: Technische Universiteit Delft

Department: Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, department of Urbanism

Address: Julianalaan 134, 26 28 BL Delft, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 415 206.91

ERDF budget: EUR 249 124.14

Exo Environmental Ltd

Name: Exo Environmental Ltd

Department: Main Office

Address: Norwich Research Park, NR4 7TJ Norwich, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 462 402.09

ERDF budget: EUR 277 441.26

Ville de Gravelines

Name: Ville de Gravelines

Department: Development Department

Address: Rue des Clarisses, 59820 Gravelines, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 188 654.77

ERDF budget: EUR 113 192.86

Gemeente Vlissingen

Name: Gemeente Vlissingen

Department: Urban Development and Social Affairs

Address: Paul Krugerstraat 1, 4382 MA Vlissingen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 168 941.99

ERDF budget: EUR 701 365.21

Stad Blankenberge

Name: Stad Blankenberge

Department: Department of Town Planning

Address: Kennedy Square, B-8370 Blankenberge, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 339 914.15

ERDF budget: EUR 203 948.50

Environment Agency

Name: Environment Agency

Department: Flood & Coastal

Address: Victoria Square, PL31 1EB Bodmin, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 112 494.27

ERDF budget: EUR 667 496.56

Maritime Archaeology Trust

Name: Maritime Archaeology Trust

Department: Main Office

Address: Empress Dock, SO14 3ZH Southampton, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 562 234.56

ERDF budget: EUR 337 340.72

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Katholieke Hogeschool Vives Noord

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HZ University of Applied Sciences

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Stad Oostende

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Gemeente Middelkerke

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Agentschap Maritieme dienstverlening en Kust

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Vlaams Gewest

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Technische Universiteit Delft

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Exo Environmental Ltd

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Ville de Gravelines

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Gemeente Vlissingen

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Stad Blankenberge

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Environment Agency

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Maritime Archaeology Trust

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Southend Borough Council

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Summary

Project name (EN): Sustainable and Resilient Coastal Cities

Project acronym: SARCC

Project start date: 2019-01-25

Project end date: 2023-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 10 284 705.96

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 6 170 823.58

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 0.60%

Co-financing sources:

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Introducing SARCC | Sustainable And Resilient Coastal Cities

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2023-10-23

Document date: 2020-05-18

Languages: en

Nature-Based Solutions in Coastal Cities - The SARCC Project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2023-10-23

Document date: 2021-01-14

Languages: en

The SARCC Project - Overview

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2023-10-23

Document date: 2023-01-16

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

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2024-12-17

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917 / 887 (103.38%)

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