Stella's children build the future in the Coalition of Mayor

The Mayor and the Municipal Council of Stella 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 Stella Strategic Mission Deployment Agenda called “Mission Stella”.
The rationale of Mission Stella is to contribute to the Strategic Mission Deployment Agenda of the “Coalition of Mayors for Mission Ocean” 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 Stella 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 Mediterranean Lighthouse CSA.
It should be noted that Mission Stella aims at involving children in the Mission making them aware of the challenges and of how they, the children, can help facing them. This will be achieved by extra-curricular courses, regularly organised in the schools of Stella, designed to make children aware of sustainability and renewable energy/circular economy matters and possible actions. This is in-line with the Municipal Council of Stella’s goal to make Mission Ocean an integral part of primary and secondary schools’ teaching programme for new generations to learn how to behave to prevent and mitigate the damage to oceans and waters