This is the FIRST newsletter of the COASTAL project
WHERE YOU CAN:
- Find out what COASTAL is all about
- Read about the latest developments of the project
- Hear about our emerging findings
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What is COASTAL?
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Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
COASTAL: Collaborative Land-Sea Integration Platform is a research and innovation
project.It is a unique multi-actor collaboration of coastal and rural business entrepreneurs,
administrations, stakeholders, and natural and social science experts. It will formulate and
evaluate business solutions and policy recommendations aimed at improving the
coastal-rural synergy to foster rural and coastal development while preserving the
environment.
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What are the expectations of the
European Commission towards
the COASTAL H2020 project?
Alexia Rouby, Research programme officer of DG-AGRI,
the Research and Innovation Unit answers
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THE COASTAL TEAM
COASTAL is a unique collaboration of 29 partners from 8 EU Member States, with
stakeholders representing coastal and rural business entrepreneurs, administrations, and
scientific experts.
The project core consortium includes:
- 11 research institutes and 3 universities active in the field of marine science and
innovation, hydrology, rural development, agriculture and integrated systems
modelling
- 3 NGOs active in the field of regional development and economics, agriculture, tourism
and coastal development
- 2 farming advisory organisations
- 4 administrations involved in regional and rural development, port development
and environmental management
- 2 SMEs with expertise in knowledge dissemination, blue growth, industrial and coastal
development
- 2 development agencies and 2 partners representing the business sector
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TIMELINE AND PROJECT STRUCTURE
The COASTAL project is a 4-year project started in May 2018, it is managed through
six work packages. The final results are expected in early 2021.
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What COASTAL can offer you?
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By combining local knowledge and scientific expertise in a co-creation process the
COASTAL project engages actors and stakeholders at all levels. It will improve
coastal-rural interdependence and collaboration by identifying problems and setting up
evidence-based business roadmaps and policy solutions, focusing on economic growth,
marine spatial planning, and environmental protection, including inland water quality.
Under a separate domain name but linked to the project website we will soon set up the
frames for the COASTAL Knowledge Exchange Platform. We will gradually populate it
with information in multiple languages tailored to our target groups. It will provide access
to knowledge, solutions, and experiences on land-sea synergy of regions and operators
facing similar problems, as well as for maintaining a platform for continued knowledge
sharing and capacity building as a project legacy.
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Did you know you can read the EIP-Agri Practice Abstracts of the COASTAL project?
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COASTAL being a multi-actor H2020 project contributes to the EIP-AGRI repository
of practical knowledge across the EU in the form of hort and concise practical
information, so called 'practice abstracts'. Practice abstracts are being developed
throughout the course of the project.
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Latest news from COASTAL
We came together in Brussels, Belgium
in between 5 and 8 June 2018 to mark
the start of this four-year research and
innovation action project.
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The project isorganised around interacting
Multi-Actor Labs (MALs), combining tools
and expertise for six case studies
representing the major coastal regions in
the EU territory.In each MAL local actors
and experts participate in collaborative
exercises to analyse problems, analyse the
causes, propose and discuss solutions,
and validate and interpret the impacts
of simulated business and policy decisions.
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| SECTORAL ANALYSIS OF COASTAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT |
Stakeholder workshops workshops took
place in the 6 case study areas within WP1
in M3-9 of the project period to develop
case and sector specific mind maps of the
land-sea system in the given case areas by
bringing together for each case study
domain experts, rural and coastal
stakeholders and administrations.
Deliverable D3 summarizes the results.
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WP2 has identified the quantification needs
and collected relevant data and models
for supporting the quantitative analysis.
Deliverable D6 summarizes the results.
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| MODEL SCOPE AND FEEDBACK STRUCTURE |
WP4 provides an overview of the problem
scope and feedback mechanisms in the
context of land-sea interaction for the six
case studies in Deliverable D12.
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| 10/2018: |
Kick-off meeting of the WASTE FEW ULL H2020 project (UK)
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| 06/2018: |
Panhellenic symposium of oceanography & fisheries
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| 06/2018: |
Oceangov European Cost Action
Read more
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Special issue “modelling and monitoring the effectiveness of nature-based
solutions for climate change ADAPTATION”
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We invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue “Modelling and Monitoring the Effectiveness
of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation” in the journal Water.
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COASTAL & fellow project: ROBUST
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COASTAL COLLABORATES WITH
FELLOW PROJECT FINANCED UNDER
TOPIC RUR-01-2016: ROBUST
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Co-operation activities are envisaged in
the RUR-01-2016 topic. Contacts with the
ROBUST project (Rural-Urban Outlooks: Unlocking Synergies)
consortium have been established.
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Visit the ROBUST project website
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ROBUST - COASTAL:
Looking for Synergies |
The COASTAL coordinator attended the
18-month review meeting of the H2020
fellow project ROBUST on 15 February
2018 in Brussels. Fields of collaboration
between the two projects were discussed.
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Read more
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Latest highlights from ROBUST
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ROBUST researchers and practitioners collaborate in real-world
Living Labs in 11 diverse regions across Europe. In this
newsletter, we feature Live Cases from three of its Living Labs:
Mid Wales, Helsinki and Ljubljana.
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JOIN US!
Your active engagement is important to ensure that the innovative tools, approaches
and policy recommendations we develop reflect the views of those who are directly
concerned with improving the coastal-rural synergy to foster rural and coastal
development while preserving the environment.
THERE ARE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO GET INVOLVED IN COASTAL:
- Participate in national workshops
- Take part in the Multi Actor Labs
- Visit the COASTAL Knowledge Exchange Platform
www.coastal-xchange.eu
(available from May 2019 onwards)
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This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No
773782.
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