LUE4ALL will align top-down regulatory demands about European (networks of) MPAs with bottom-up societal expectations as a guarantee for achieving effective, efficient and resilient MPAs and networks of MPAs which meet EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 objectives. By mobilizing stakeholders from BLUE4ALL’s 25 information sites and Living Labs, i.e. locations across the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North-East Atlantic regions where (networks of) MPAs have been established and from which lessons learned can be drawn about success and failure relative to how challenges were tackled, we will co-create robust and replicable social, governance, ecological and environmental tools to meet conservation and/or restoration objectives in socially sustainable and acceptable ways. These science-based tools will be tested in Living Labs, i.e. locations where (networks of) MPAs are in the process of establishment and where these tools can be fed into the ongoing MPA process. The operationalized and tested frameworks will ultimately be generalized into a Blueprint Platform for the co-creation of effective, efficient and resilient (networks of) MPAs. This scheme will separate generically encountered challenges and applied solutions from MPA (network)- specific challenges and solutions and develop guidance in a user-friendly manner to end-users (i.e. MPA (network) managers and authorities). This guidance will take the shape of an interactive web-based Blueprint Platform directing the end-users to those challenges and solutions most applicable to their site(s). User-friendliness and applicability will be maximized by cross-checking the Blueprint Platform development with the actors and stakeholders of the Living Labs throughout the whole process of its development. Knowledge transfer and interaction with stakeholders and society- at-large at local to regional scales will lead to the development of a platform for MPA networking to interact with communities of practice boosting the BLUE4ALL legacy to its ultimate goal to restore our oceans and waters.
- Name of organisation
- BLUE4ALL project
- Other type of organisation
- Other
- Type of action proposed
- Upscaling, deployment and replication of solutions
- The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
- Protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversityOcean and waters knowledge system
- List of Partners
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EWIV
University of Southern Denmark Finnish Environment Institute University of Antwerp University College Dublin University of Palermo University of Tartu
Flanders Marine Institute
WWF Adria – Association for the protection of nature
and conservation of biological diversity
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
WWF Baltic Ecoregion Programme (BEP) Stiftelsen Varldsnaturfonden WWF
Fondazione WWF Mediterranean
The Environmental Board of Estonia
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Wageningen University
Mediterranean Sea and Coast Foundation
Office Français de la Biodiversité
Consorzio di gestione di Torre Guaceto
Comune Di Otranto
Public Enterprise for Coastal Zone Management of Montenegro
Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism of Montenegro
- Start date of the action
- End date of the action
- Budget allocated for the action
- 8018806
- Basin coverage
- Cross-basin
- Website link
- mml@submariner-network.eu
- Country
- BelgiumDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceIrelandItalyLatviaLithuaniaMontenegroPolandRussiaSweden