Co-Evolve Project to Pass its First Milestone
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Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund |
CO-EVOLVE (Promoting the co-evolution of human activities and natural systems for the development of sustainable coastal and maritime tourism) is an Interreg MED project- co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund – aiming at analysing and promoting the co-evolution of human activities and natural systems in touristic coastal areas, allowing sustainable development of touristic activities based on the principles of Integrated Coastal Zone Management/Maritime Spatial Planning. CO-EVOLVE couples a presently unavailable analysis at MED scale of threats and enabling factors for sustainable tourism with local studies on seven representative Pilot Areas, to demonstrate through pilot actions the feasibility and effectiveness of an ICZM/MSP-based planning process. CO-EVOLVE recognises as a key challenge for sustainable coastal and maritime tourism development the strengthening of cooperation among regions and the joint development and transferring of approaches, tools, guidelines and best practices. Finally, CO-EVOLVE contributes to the Strategic Theme 2 (Joint Action 2.1) of the Bologna Charter’ Joint Action Plan: http://www.bolognacharter.eu/.
CO-EVOLVE’s activities started in November 2016 and will end in October 2019. The project is divided into two major phases:
The studying phase (M1) will be running from November 2016 to January 2018. It consists in analysing and defining the state of the art at MED and Pilot Area scale concerning the development of sustainable maritime and coastal tourism, using and integrating available data, designing common approaches and elaborating common strategies, tools and action plans. This phase is essential to define a consistent framework for pilot actions and for the final phase (transferability of the results in the territories covered by the project).
The testing phase (M2) will be running from February 2018 to the end of the project’s lifetime. It consists in testing instruments, policies, strategies and joint plans already identified in M1 through pilot activities in preselected pilot areas, in order to set up solutions applicable to a wider set of users and territories, which the final transferability phase will precise.
Transferring activities will start in May 2019 and last until the end of the project.
The partnership consists of 12 organisations under the leadership of Region of East MAcedonia and Thrace. For more information about the partnership please visit the following interactive map.
The official page of the Project could be accessed by the following link:
One year after its official launching, CO-Evolve project is heading for the completion of its Studying Phase in order to move to the Testing Phase.