From protection to regeneration: this is the direction emerging from the World Ocean Summit Europe, the leading international forum organised by The Economist Impact to define a European strategy for sustainable ocean governance and to accelerate the development of a responsible blue economy.

Among more than 300 high-level participants – EU policymakers, institutions, investors, companies, NGOs and researchers – MEDSEA and the ARTEMIS project brought the Mediterranean perspective, showing how Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can evolve from “paper parks” into investment-ready ecological infrastructures, capable of generating value for nature, climate and the economy.

On 10–11 September 2025, the final event of the TransformAr project was held at Jardin Hospice in Brussels. Funded under Horizon 2020 and launched in October 2021, the project brought together 22 European partners to test 20 different climate-change adaptation solutions across six pilot sites. 

All consortium partners attended the event, including the MEDSEA Foundation, represented by Manuela Puddu and Francesca Etzi, who have been involved in the project since its early stages. Over the two days, participants presented the main progress achieved both in cross-cutting actions and in the activities developed at the various pilot sites. Much of the discussion focused on how partners intend to continue the work begun and how the results of TransformAr can be integrated into existing adaptation plans or other wetland management tools.