Governing sustainable tourism in territories with high environmental value: reconnecting tourism and nature for addressing the climate crisis with an ecosystem-based approach
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B EURO Mediterranean (EURO MED)Description
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10 Project Partners and 5 Associated Partners organizations cooperating formally in the supported project (EN)
5 Regional Strategies on Climate mitigation and adaptation for the coastal tourism sector, including Enabling conditions for delivery(EN)
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6 Reports on designed/strengthened/assessed NbS(EN)
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Website: https://interreg-euro-med.eu/en/
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-B_EM_2) Greener MED
Priority specific objective: RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches
Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility
Type of intervention: 061 Risk prevention and management of non-climate related natural risks (for example earthquakes) and risks linked to human activities (for example technological accidents), including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches
Partners (11)
Lead Partner: Institut za turizam
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 934191966
Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR10264179101 | HR120000019 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Vrhovec, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Department address: Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.iztzg.hr
Total budget: EUR 355 115.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 284 092.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 71 023.00
Contractors:
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Name: Luca Santarossa
VAT registration or tax identification number: SNTLCU65C12G888C
- Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva I vodoprivrede HNŽ/K
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Name: Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva I vodoprivrede HNŽ/K
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 4227552000004 | BA120000011 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Hrvatske mladeži, 88000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Department address: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://www.vlada-hnz-k.ba/hr/ministarstvo-poljoprivrede-sumarstva-i-vodoprivrede
Total budget: EUR 219 155.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 175 324.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 43 831.00
- Ελληνική Εταιρία Προστασίας της Φύσης | Elliniki Eteria Prostasias tis Fisis
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Name: Ελληνική Εταιρία Προστασίας της Φύσης | Elliniki Eteria Prostasias tis Fisis
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 952966704
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 90136803 | EL220000008 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Nikis str, 10557 Athens, Greece
Department address: Greece
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: https://www.eepf.gr/en/
Total budget: EUR 182 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 145 600.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 36 400.00
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ
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Name: ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ
Department: Department of European International Affairs
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 961026337
Partner’s ID if not PIC: EL997579388 | EL243000001 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: G.Averof, 71201 Heraklion, Greece
Department address: G.Averof, 71201 Heraklion, Greece
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.crete.gov.gr
Total budget: EUR 245 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 196 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 49 000.00
- NATURA -JADERA javna ustanova za upravljanje zaštićenim dijelovima prirode na području Zadarske Ž.
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Name: NATURA -JADERA javna ustanova za upravljanje zaštićenim dijelovima prirode na području Zadarske Ž.
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 884817996
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 09660701704 | HR120000020 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Ul. Braće Vranjana, 23000 Zadar, Croatia
Department address: Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Sectoral agency
Website: https://natura-jadera.com/
Total budget: EUR 219 928.83
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 175 943.06
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 43 985.77
Contractors:
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Name: TajMar obrt za savjetovanje
VAT registration or tax identification number: 67908796283 -
Name: Nature& Adventure, obrt
VAT registration or tax identification number: 66538435992
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Name: TajMar obrt za savjetovanje
- Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
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Name: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
Department: Department of Environment / Regional Public authority
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 80002870923 | IT2G2000001 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Via Roma, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Department address: Via Roma, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.regione.sardegna.it
Total budget: EUR 342 750.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 274 200.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 68 550.00
- Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía
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Name: Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 886091121
Partner’s ID if not PIC: S4111001F | ES1S0000030 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Av. De Roma, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Department address: Spain
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/turismoculturaydeporte.html
Total budget: EUR 258 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 206 400.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 51 600.00
- UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE ET DE SES RESSOURCES
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Name: UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE ET DE SES RESSOURCES
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999918972
Partner’s ID if not PIC: W0391213F | ES530000304 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Calle Marie Curie, 29590 Campanillas, Spain
Department address: Spain
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: http://www.iucn.org
Total budget: EUR 450 140.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 360 112.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 90 028.00
Contractors:
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Name: GRUPO DE AUDITORES PÚBLICOS
VAT registration or tax identification number: A92015254
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Name: GRUPO DE AUDITORES PÚBLICOS
- Conférence des Régions Périphériques et Maritimes d’Europe
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Name: Conférence des Régions Périphériques et Maritimes d’Europe
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 892326281
Partner’s ID if not PIC: FR31530548361 | FR590000004 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Rue Saint Martin, 35700 Rennes, France
Department address: France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: https://cpmr.org/fr/
Total budget: EUR 340 850.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 272 680.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 68 170.00
Contractors:
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Name: BDL
VAT registration or tax identification number: FR66316359504 -
Name: Travel Foundation
VAT registration or tax identification number: N/A
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Name: BDL
- Plan Bleu pour l’environnement et le développement en Méditerranée
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Name: Plan Bleu pour l’environnement et le développement en Méditerranée
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 997732883
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 33332248500058 | FR590000005 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Boulevard Euroméditerranée - Quai d'Arenc, 13002 Marseille, France
Department address: France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: http://www.planbleu.org
Total budget: EUR 365 005.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 292 004.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 73 001.00
Contractors:
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Name: ANTE MANDIC
VAT registration or tax identification number: 32306445228 -
Name: DELOITTE ET ASSOCIES
VAT registration or tax identification number: FR02572028041 -
Name: Alexandra McCaffery
VAT registration or tax identification number: N/A
Sub-Contractors:
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Name: ANTE MANDIC
VAT registration or tax identification number: 32306445228 -
Name: DELOITTE ET ASSOCIES
VAT registration or tax identification number: FR02572028041 -
Name: Alexandra McCaffery
VAT registration or tax identification number: N/A
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Name: ANTE MANDIC
- Plan Bleu pour l'Environnement et le Développement en Méditerranée
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Name: Plan Bleu pour l'Environnement et le Développement en Méditerranée
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 997732883
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SIRET 333 322 485 00058
Address: Boulevard Euroméditerranée - Quai d'Arenc, 13002 Marseille, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: http://www.planbleu.org
Total budget: EUR 365 005.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 292 004.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 73 001.00
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Project partner
Summary
Project acronym: NaTour4CChange
Project ID: Euro-MED0200735
Project start date: 2024-01-01
Project end date: 2026-09-30
Project status: ongoing
Relevant linked projects:
- DestiMED PLUS (EN), n.a. (FR) | This Interreg MED project – some of the current project proposals’ PPs were being part of – has fostered the need of an integrated governance to ensure a sincere sustainability in the tourism sector, through 3 main assets:
- At Regions’ level, creating an interdepartmental working group – the Regional Ecotourism Coordination Table, involving at least the tourism and the environment offices – with the aim of planning a strategy for ecotourism development in the whole regional territory
- At pilot site destination level, creating a “Local Ecotourism Cluster”, where the local main stakeholders – Park managing body, local inbound tour operator, main local tourism service providers – were involved in designing an ecotourism package and test it twice, every time improving the package on the basis of the project partnership’s assessment
- At Mediterranean level, creating the Mediterranean Ecotourism Consortium (MEC, that is embedded in the “Cultural and Sustainable Tourism Task Force” of the Intermediterranean Commission of the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions), which aims at improving the integration of regional tourism and environmental policies and the policy frameworks at Euro-Mediterranean scale.
- All these assets will be exploited in the current project to reinforce the tourism governance capacities in increasing the resilience of the tourism sector of the Mediterranean region to Climate Change effects.
- (EN), n.a. (FR), n.a. (FR), Posbemed2 (EN) | This Interreg MED project – some of the current project proposals’ PPs were being part of – managed to test and evaluate management options to observe occurring Climate-related changes on coastal ecosystems and define a set of solutions that maintain in the best possible way the state of conservation of the environment in coastal areas, focusing on beaches and Posidonia beach-dune system management.
- It analysed the historical and temporal evolution of the pilot sites’ coastline and evaluated nature-based alternatives for operational practices that could become decision-supporting tools for management authorities.
- The project implemented many local awareness actions and programs for different typologies of stakeholders and capacity building workshops on coastal dynamics and management for technical coastal managers.
- All these tools will be exploited to develop the current project’s methods and tools to improve the skills and capacities of involved actors.
- (EN), n.a. (FR), RESIN (EN), n.a. (FR) | RESIN is an interdisciplinary, practice-based research project – funded by Horizon 2020 Programme – investigating climate resilience in European cities.
- Through co-creation and knowledge brokerage between cities and researchers, the project is working on developing practical and applicable tools to support cities in designing and implementing climate adaptation strategies for their local contexts.
- The project aims to compare and evaluate the methods that can be used to plan for climate adaptation in order to move towards the formal standardisation of adaptation strategies.
- The RESIN project developed the “European Climate Risk Typology”, which addresses Climate Change issues by providing an innovative approach to enhance understanding of climate risk in European cities and regions. The available interactive online portal provides data and functionality, enabling users to visualise, describe, compare and analyse climate risk in European cities and regions.
- The current project will exploit the vast database – available in the RESIN platform – that describes best practices all around Europe about Climate Change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
- (EN), n.a. (FR), n.a. (FR), ADAPTOUR (EN) | The “Adaptation to climate change in the tourism sector” project works in three tourist destinations in Mexico and is funded by the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ).
- The project is supporting the tourism sector in adapting to climate change, where the specific aim is to reduce the business risks of tourism companies and protect their natural capital (such as beaches, reefs, rainforests and biodiversity) and ecosystem services (water supply, protection against hurricanes, floods, landslides, etc.).
- It is developing a “National Adaptation Plan for the tourism sector” as part of the Mexican National Plan for Adaptation (NAP), which provides assistance in the integration of criteria and adaptation measures in sectoral plans and processes (e.g. programmes of investment), and puts particular emphasis on sensibilization of the stakeholders about the outcomes of climate change.
- The project will gain many benefits from this advanced experience through the involvement of ADAPTUR technical partner as Associated Partner in our project.
- (EN), n.a. (FR), ADAPT Cala Millor (EN), n.a. (FR) | The Spanish LIFE project AdaptCalaMillor – recently funded by the EU – will validate new methodologies based on science and participatory and governance schemes, such as the involvement of citizens in decision-making on coastal planning and management, which increases the resilience of urban beaches.
- The implementation in Cala Millor will lead to the definition of a long-term adaptation strategy based on the understanding and agreement of a wide range of actors who share interests and skills in this bay. Its implementation will minimise the physical, environmental and socioeconomic effects expected for this section of the coast of Mallorca.
- The current project will look at the participatory and governance methods developed in such an experience to extract innovative approaches in this sense, liasing with the Associated Partners from Balearic Islands. .
- (EN), n.a. (FR), n.a. (FR), MedECC (EN) | The Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) is an independent network of scientists, founded in 2015. MedECC assesses the best available scientific knowledge on climate and environmental change and associated risks in the Mediterranean Basin in order to render it accessible to policymakers, stakeholders and citizens.
- MedECC drafts every 3-5 year a report on climate and environmental changes in the Mediterranean basin, and these reports are developed on the basis of scientific criteria only and are prepared for the use of policymakers and a broader audience.
- The 2nd report is supposed to be issued in early 2023, and the project will build its initial survey on available knowledge on it. (EN), n.a. (FR), COPERNICUS (EN), n.a. (FR) | n.a. (FR), Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme, looking at our planet and its environment to benefit all European citizens. It offers information services that draw from satellite Earth Observation and in-situ (non-space) data.
- The European Commission manages the Programme. It is implemented in partnership with the Member States, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), EU Agencies and Mercator Océan.
- It issues the “European State of the Climate” annually, a useful benchmark for the assessment of the good status of the environment and provides tools to enable policy makers and businesses to develop Climate Change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
- The project will base its analysis and planning in coherence with the most updated report that will be available
- (EN), Climate-ADAPT (EN), n.a. (FR) | n.a. (FR), The European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT is a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA). Climate-ADAPT is maintained by the EEA with the support of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (ETC/CCA).
- Climate-ADAPT aims to support Europe in adapting to climate change helping users to access and share data and information on:
- Expected climate change in Europe
- Current and future vulnerability of regions and sectors
- EU, national and transnational adaptation strategies and actions
- Adaptation case studies and potential adaptation options
- Tools that support adaptation planning
- The current project will exploit the vast database – available in the Climate-ADAPT platform – that describes best practices all around Europe about Climate Change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
- (EN), PEDRR (EN), n.a. (FR) | Formally established in 2008, the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) is a global alliance of UN agencies, NGOs and specialist institutes. As a global thematic platform of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), PEDRR seeks to promote and scale-up implementation of Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) where partners implement collectively planned initiatives and activities.
- PEDRR is therefore a clearinghouse for knowledge, training, advocacy and practice on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR). Eco-DRR is the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to reduce disaster risk, with the aim to achieve sustainable and resilient development.
- The current project will exploit the vast database – available in the PEDRR platform – that describes best practices all around the world about Climate Change mitigation and adaptation strategies
- (EN), n.a. (FR), Planning and delivering Nature-based Solutions in Mediterranean cities (EN), n.a. (FR) | This IUCN project piloted the assessment of NBS in the Mediterranean context, focusing on cities. One of the initial assessment family of NbS interventions has been the use of NbS for coastal resilience in a context of rising sea levels. This include the following examples: MARSEILLE (France) - New Stormwater Retention Basins; ALICANTE (Spain) - Park of the Sea – Parque del Mar; MÁLAGA (Spain) - Coastal Trail – Senda Litoral; NAPLES (Italy). Regeneration of Bagnoli coastal area.
- This project provides an approach on how to assess the NbS solutions against the IUCN Standard on Nature Based Soulutions. (EN), n.a. (FR), MPA ADAPT - MPA ENGAGE (EN), n.a. (FR) | Those InterregMED projects dealt with climate change adaptation in Mediterranean MPA, and developed a series of tools that the project will capitalize, aiming to enhance the effectiveness of the Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas to face the climate change emergency, including:
- Monitoring systems Toolbox
- Vulnerability Assessments Toolbox
- Adaptation and Mitigation Plans Toolbox
- Participatory Approaches Toolbox
- E-learning (EN), n.a. (FR), n.a. (FR), ENSERES (EN) | n.a. (FR), The ENI CBC MED capitalisation project ENSERES (ENhancing Socio-Ecological RESilience in Mediterranean coastal areas), works dealing with the cumulative impacts of overexploitation, population, governance and climate change exerted pressures on Mediterranean coastal and marine areas are leading to undermine biodiversity, ecosystem integrity and threatening the Mediterranean lifestyle. To ensure sustainability, and at the same time, increased blue economy plans demands to protect vulnerable areas and the local economy, the use of ecosystem-based management (EBM) approaches is becoming crucial to address such impacts based on strengthening social and ecological resilience. The heart of the solution would be to set transformative governance mechanisms, building capacities, ensuring sustainable financial and community engagement for bringing improvements to people’s lives and nature. To deal with these global challenges and support the implementation of transformative changes in the Mediterranean region, ENSERES capitalises on existing transferable models and tools to promote the application of integrated governance and management approaches across administrative boundaries, and sustainable financing instruments across scales and users.
- As Pan Bleu is an Associated Partner to the project, it will allow the ENSERES project results to be feeded into the project, which ends in September 2023. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 977 943.83
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 382 355.06
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%
Co-financing sources:
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Deliverables:
- Report sheet on best practices
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- Methodological framework for Regions
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- Methodological framework for Destinations
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- Technical report and brief for Regions
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- Technical report and brief for Destinations
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- Technical report and brief
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- NbS for Coastal Destinations Climate Action manual
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- Destination Marketing and Visitor Communications manual
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- Capitalisation report
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- Project Video
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- Project materials: Project Factsheet, Poster and Roll-up
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- Regional Coordination Unit status report
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- Pilot site destination(s) and Coordinator status report
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- Technical reports (x5)
- Regional Tourism Climate Strategy/Plans (x5)
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- Self-assessments of enabling conditions (x5)
- Criteria for pilot destinations selection
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- Technical reports (x6) - Destination assasment report
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- Destination Tourism Climate Strategy/Plans (x6)
- Nature-based Solutions Design/Strenghtening/Assessment Reports (x6)
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- NbS Feasibility Report
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- Business and financial model guidelines for NbS implementation
- Marketing and Communications Strategy/Plans for climate action (x6)
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Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- EUStrategyAdriaticIonianRegion The general objective of the EUSAIR is to promote economic and social prosperity and growth in the region by improving its attractiveness, competitiveness and connectivity. With four EU members and four non EU countries the strategy will contribute to the further integration of the Western Balkans, hence this project will continue to integrate EUSAIR countries through participation of Italy, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- This project is aiming to create synergies and foster coordination among selected regions in the Adriatic-Ionian Region in the four thematic areas/pillars, where those this project would affect the most are sustainable tourism and environmental quality. The European Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region addresses how to consider the post-Covid situation in the elaboration of the Strategy. Some of the key conclusions are:
- - coordination is a key factor in the response to the pandemic crisis;
- - crisis as opportunity to accelerate some trends, one of which is digital one;
- - strengthening resilience and achieving the strategic long-term objectives of the digital, green and fair transitions.
- Therefore this project will address over-tourism and recovery in the light of trends and perspectives, and the implications for all sectors closely linked to tourism, in particular in terms of blue growth, connectivity and the environment, especially through the development of established inter-departmental coordination units (including at least the tourism and conservation departments), to define an integrated “Regional Climate Strategy for the tourism sector”, in a joint and collaborative manner The coordination unit will also select - using the common criteria developed in WP1 - and supervise the pilot site(s) that will be involved in the testing activities (WP3).
- EuropeanGreenDeal The vision: to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, safeguard biodiversity, establish a circular economy and eliminate pollution, while boosting the competitiveness of European industry and ensuring a just transition for the regions and workers affected. Policy areas: biodiversity, sustainable food systems, sustainable agriculture, clean energy, sustainable industry, building and renovating, sustainable mobility, eliminating pollution and climate action. Cross-sectoral nature of tourism makes almost all of the EGD elements (from vision, to goals and actions) of direct consequence to tourism. Policy areas will undergo substantial changes that will create major shifts, uncertainties and challenges. However, EGD will “push” tourism to:
- - Decrease its environmental impact / footprint;
- - become environmentally more sustainable and therefore of higher quality and competitive;
- - stimulate development of all tourism products with lower emissions and discourage the development of all other tourism products;
- - promote sustainable development through all forms of formal and informal education (from primary schools to university degrees, and targeted educational workshops and seminars.
- Hence, this project proposal is going to make DMOs draft CC-related “Tourism Destination Climate Action Plans” with a long-term perspective, using a participatory approach and the common structure developed in WP1 and consistent with the Regional Climate Strategy; among the numerous actions some NbSs must be indicated, based on the document prepared by WP1. Furthermore, this project proposal is going to address the need to improve tourism governance, to include destination sustainability indicators in all destination dashboards (or other methods of regulation within the destination) and to collect data and report on progress. This will be achieved through the measurement of the effectiveness of tested NbS against the Coastal Tourism Destination Climate Action Plan’s goals.
- MediterraneanSeaBasin The WESTMED initiative faces how to consider the post-Covid situation in the achievement of its objectives. Hereby WESTMED - STAKEHOLDER CONFERENCE (Nov. 2021) - Corridors to Sustainable Blue Development has emphasised maritime and coastal tourism which is also the focus of this project proposal. The main points raised are the relevance of reflecting on the challenges faced by the sector before the pandemic in order to support a resilient and robust recovery. Furthermore, Second Ministerial Conference on Sustainable Blue Economy (Feb. 2021) adopted a new declaration, firmly committing to cooperate closely and address joint challenges in key blue economy sectors. They agree to promote transformative policies and tools such as maritime clusters or maritime spatial planning, and support the overall shift towards low-emission technologies and circular blue economy. New joint activities and projects will be set up on a wide range of issues, including “blue skills”, marine litter, marine renewable energies and nature-based tourism. Hence proposed project is going to reflect those needs through the development of NbS which will provide new knowledge and solutions focused on nature-based tourism, simultaneously tackling the needs of adaptation to climate change.
- Other
- UNEP MAP Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development
- In the context of the articulation of the UNEP COVID-19 strategic response, this document identifies the main issues and priorities of relevance to the mandate of UNEP/MAP. One of the operative aims of this Strategy is Working with the environment to protect people: COVID-19 Response (May 2020). It concludes that to prevent future outbreaks, it is necessary to address the threats to ecosystems and wildlife, including habitat loss, illegal trade, pollution and climate change. To that end, the proposed project shall work together with the industry, public authorities, social partners and other stakeholders in the co-creation process that will lead to reducing negative impacts on (diverse) Mediterranean ecosystems and focus on the mitigation of Climate Change through actions transferable in other similar regions and destinations. Therefore one of the actions is to increase the Climate Change-related resilience of pilot tourism destinations through a long-term planning of evidence-based activities to adapt the destination to CC and through the testing of Nature-based Solutions to prove their effectiveness
- Other EUROPEAN tourism convention 2020 – ETC 2020
- The Convention gathered approximately 600 participants, including representatives of EU institutions, high-level representatives of EU national and regional public authorities, representatives of European sectoral associations and the tourism and travel industry, international organisations, academics, NGOs, as well as other relevant stakeholders. Workshops were divided in three topics and representatives from dozens of institutions have provided their input on the challenges, opportunities, potential actions, their timescale and actors in relation to (i) Safe and seamless tourism experience; (ii) Greener holidays and, (iii) Tourism powered by data.
- Out of the emphasised areas, the one that is most in line with the proposed project is Greener holidays, where proposed areas of action are 1) to accelerate the decarbonisation towards climate-neutrality by 2050, 2) to implement climate change mitigation and adaptation measures for more resilient business and destinations, and 3) to encourage new business models through innovation for sustainable development and a circular tourism economy. The convention proved to be a good platform to formulate tourism aspects within the EU Green Deal discourse. The Convention built on the commitment for collaborative and coordinated action across multiple stakeholders that continued after the Conference with the Stakeholder consultation on the transition pathway for tourism.
- Other Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism
- Main goal of the Declaration is defining a clear and consistent sector-wide message and approach to climate action in the coming decade, aligned with the wider scientific framework and urgency to act now. This project also aims at outlining the pathways and specific actions that will accelerate tourism’s ability to transform tourism and mitigate CC. Project will also use the main five pathways Defined in the Declaration, with emphasis on collaboration, measurement and regeneration.
- Other Transition Pathway for Tourism
- The Transition Pathway for Tourism addresses the requests outlined above and paves the way for a forward-looking transition and long-term resilience for the tourism ecosystem, towards 2030 and beyond.
- The transition pathway calls on the tourism community to implement measures in twenty-seven areas, including climate change. The need to actively assess measures to adapt to climate change and to preserve biodiversity, while developing economic activities and safeguarding their cultural heritage to meet the demands of digital and green transition is emphasized in the pathway and will be in focus of the NaTour4CChange project. Pathway also stressed out that climate mitigation and adaptation measures should always be included in the smart and sustainable tourism strategies on national, regional and local levels, whereby this Project will reflect on that matter in 11 regional and destination Plans.
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 001 - Enterprises supported (of which: micro, small, medium, large), Measurement unit:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
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RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
Programme Result Indicator:
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RCR90N Long-term cross-border innovation networks, Measurement unit: Number of networks
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PSI1 - Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across borders, Measurement unit: organisations
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSAIR
EUSAIR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:
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Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B EURO Mediterranean (EURO MED)
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-05-27
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
64 / 64 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
608 / 608 (100%)
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