CONTEXT
The project is implementing a variety of innovative restoration activities in 3 demonstration areas (Portugal, Ireland, Norway) focusing on coastal dune and saltmarsh ecosystems, seagrasses and lagoons, as well as kelp forests. These core local implementation activities are complemented with transversal tasks developing serious games to foster deliberative democracy processes, producing digital tools and databases to assist in implementation of technical solutions, carrying out socio-economic analyses and creating sustainable business plans, as well as creating enabling conditions for the upscaling of these activities. Moreover, the project has engaged seven Associated Regions (Iceland, Spain 2x, Croatia 2x, Greece, Cyprus), which are exchanging information with the project and replicating the restoration approaches. The project ultimately aims to contribute to the Atlantic-Arctic lighthouse on restoration to guide the way for the future work in marine nature restorations in the region.
OBJECTIVES
- To protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity;
- To prevent and eliminate pollution of our ocean, seas and waters;
- To make the sustainable blue economy carbon-neutral and circular
