MEDSEA foundation, which has been carrying out the Maristanis project in the Oristano area in Sardinia since 2017, attended last week the yearly meeting of the MAVA steering committee. The session took place from 16 to 17 December 2021 in Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and gathered together the international partners of the M3 strategy which aims to improve the conservation of the coastal wetlands.
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On February 2, the World Wetlands Day will be celebrated once again the Oristanese wetlands region. To recall the central role of wetlands in addressing climate and environmental crisis and to raise awareness of the importance of these basins especially in this west coast side of Sardinia, within the Maristanis project.
The first round of meetings of the Coastal Contract participatory process came to an end. For two months it saw the experts of the MEDSEA Foundation, on behalf of the Coordination Group, discuss in 9 meetings and over 20 hours of listening of all the institutional, economic, cultural and environmental forces operating in the Gulf of Oristano.
In the "adopted" vineyard of Spiaggia Grande on the Island of Sant'Antioco, the second harvest of La Casa di Sophia by Luisa Camoglio came to life. Luisa, entrepreneur and doctor, a member of the MEDSEA blue Community committed to the sea and the environment in Sardinia.
Overcoming traditional marine-coastal restoration practices and developing an integrated low-carbon model, capable of systemically looking at the link that coasts maintain with rivers. The MEDSEA Foundation is part of REST-COAST, the Horizon 2020 project of the European Union which brings together the energies and skills of 38 partners, coordinated by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
The MEDSEA Foundation is one of the 22 partners of TranformAR, the Horizon 2020 project of the European Union which for four years will work to start and improve local processes of response to climate change.
On October 26, the participatory process towards an integrated management of the Oristanese wetlands site kicked off in Oristano. An essential step which follows the signing of the Oristano Coastal Wetlands Contract.
The project ENSERES (ENhancing Socio-Ecological RESilience in Mediterranean coastal areas) funded by the European Union under the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation program ENI CBC Med, has kicked off in Malaga bringing together international organizations engaged in research, environmental protection, and public authorities from five countries to start the work plan for the next 24 months, until September 2023.
Starting from October 26th, and until the beginning of May 2022, the experts of the MEDSEA Foundation will begin a participatory process to meet and discuss with everybody representing the civil, scientific and economic society of the municipalities involved in the new governance tool for wetlands and coastal areas.
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