Laigueglia in the Coalition of Mayors for Mission Ocean

The Mayor and the Municipal Council of Laigueglia fully share the objectives and approach of the EU Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters. In order to best contribute to it, the city's development plan of the years to come will be aligned with the Mission Implementation Plan resulting in a series of project and initiatives and in the Laigueglia Strategic Mission Deployment Agenda called “Mission Laigueglia”.
The rationale of Mission Laigueglia is to contribute to the Strategic Mission Deployment Agenda of the “Coalition of Mayors for the Mission” aiming at establishing synergies with interested Municipalities with whom acting together leaving “no one behind”. More specifically it encompasses several actions to be carried out jointly with the Coalition (which SDG4MED is the secretariat of), as follows:
a) deploy solutions to protect, restore and depollute marine and freshwater ecosystems
b) promote development and sharing of knowledge and good practices on sustainable and carbon-neutral blue economy
c) involve citizens, students and private stakeholders.
From a practical viewpoint, the Municipality of Laigueglia will:
1. identify and map its territorial needs and opportunities
2. co-design, together with citizens and stakeholders, its local action plan
3. tune its action plan with that of the member municipalities of the Coalition resulting in the Coalition Shared Action Plan
4. deploy the Action Plan
5. keep the Mission periodically informed via the Coalition spokeperson and through the LightMed CSA.
It is noted that Mission Laigueglia will specially focus on
• introducing in its primary schools, courses on environmental sustainability for both pupils and their parents
• organising, jointly with local R&D centres and the University of Genova, workshops and conferences aimed at involving citizens in co-defining and co-designing Mission Laigueglia
• promoting, through workshops and exhibitions, an improved consciousness of its citizens and tourists on the sea as the source of historical and artistic heritage as well as of health (seatherapy) for vulnerable individuals
• deploy the Blurev, a physical and virtual space for conferences and international cultural exchanges on the blue economy and on the Mission’s action plan, results and best practices aiming also at work as a local incubator through which create and encourage new entrepreneurial realities in all sectors of the blue economy
• promoting, via a contest between innovative startups, citizens’ science studies and tests based on the application of mobile devices for the reduction of plastics and microplastics in the marine area of Laigueglia.