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SUSTAIN
WORKSHOPS & VISITS |
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The SUSTAIN International Conference with the North West Regional Coastal Conference 2012 and featuring the 2012 North West Awards for Coastal Excellence will be held on 18-19 September 2012 in Southport, Sefton (UK). The conference will address coastal sustainability issues across Europe and celebrate achievements of organisations and individuals across North West England. It will also be a key opportunity to get acquainted with the SUSTAIN Sustainable Development Indicators set for sustainability and to learn how to use and implement it! Download the conference announcement. Download the first annoucement and learn more about the conference here. |
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In March, the twelve European partners gathered in Lisbon for another workshop and visit hosted by the Tagus River Basin District Administration (ARH Tejo) in Portugal. During the workshop the framework methodology for the scoring methodology of the SUSTAIN Sustainability Development Indicators (SDI) was discussed and partners gained insight into the work of the regional authority work in Lisbon and the sustainability challenges of the city of Lisbon and its surroundings. Highlights of this workshop were the opening speech about “Strategies of Lisbon municipality for a sustainable approach to the city as a coastal / estuarine territory” by Dr. Ricardo Sá Fernandez, councilor of the City of Lisbon, as well as the also the visit to the Luiz Saldanha Oceanographic Museum and Marine Park and the various presentation of local experiences.
Programme Workshop |
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The SUSTAIN partners joined the OURCOAST Stakeholders Conference- "Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe: the way forward" that took place on 27-28th of October in Riga, Latvia. The OURCOAST Stakeholders Conference gathered 180 participants from around Europe and has been a good opportunity to reflect, at high level, on cross-sectoral themes and policies affecting the seas and coasts. At this occasion the SUSTAIN partnership has organized a side-event on the 26th of October, prior to the conference. During this session the SUSTAIN project approach, development of activities and the expected results by end of 2012 have been presented and shred to an audience of 24 participants. Most importantly during this session focus has been on the exchanges of best practices for the improvement of sustainability in regional and local policies. More information about the OURCOAST Conference and this initiative are available at www.ourcoastconferenceriga.eu.
Final Programme SUSTAIN Session in Riga to download
Presentations
- Best practices and policy improvement in SUSTAIN by Alan Pickaver, EUCC (Lead Partner)
- Best practices successfully identified, experiences presented by
Patrick McCluskey, Down District Council (Northern Ireland)
- Best practices successfully identified, experiences presented by Kyriakos Vitsas, Municipality of Samothraki (Greece)
- Best practices successfully identified, experiences presented by Caroline Salthouse, Sefton Borough Council (UK)
- Best practices successfully identified, experiences presented by Christakis Miltiadous, Kouklia Community Council (Cyprus)
- Best practices successfully identified, experiences presented/ Regional/local policies & instruments improved by Margarida Nunes, ARH (Portugal)
- Regional/local policies & instruments improved by
Cathal O’Mahony & Jeremy Gault, CMRC (Ireland)
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SUSTAIN (Assessing sustainability and strengthening operational policies)
is an INTERREG IVC project (2010-2013) that aims to ensure that the
integrated management of coastal issues will be sustainable. EUCC is
lead partner of SUSTAIN. On 4th of October, the European partners met
in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to reflect with regional and local stakeholders
the challenges and opportunities for sustainability of coastal mass
tourism destinations. The event and visit was organized by the regional
partner Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinhas (ICCM). Highlights of
this visit were the variety of interventions and discussions around
this theme opened by representatives from Tourism, Environment and Research
and Innovation, from the Government of Canarias; as well as a visit
to the Maspalomas Protected Dune area and coordination centre including
various presentations of local experiences.
Programme CANACOSTA Forum “SUSTAINABILITY OF COASTAL
MASS-TOURISM DESTINATIONS”
 TV and Radio
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This workshop has been dedicated to the further development of the SUSTAIN Sustainable Development Indicators (SDI) set was hosted by Down County Council, UK. All partners joined as this occasion and the results are being used to consolidate the work and methodologies towards the finalization of the sustainability indicator set early next year.
Programme Workshop |
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“The needs of small islands" has been the theme of this visit which was held in the island of Samothrace and hosted by the Municipality. This is an important issue for the EU which has many small islands within its nations and also has island states. At this occasion, the partners had the opportunity to learn and share views about small islands challenges.
Programme Interregional Exchange Visit |
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In March, the twelve
European partners came together for the fifth time, this time the host
was the Teramo Province in Italy for a workshop and inter-regional visit. During the workshop the framework
methodology for measuring sustainability and how SUSTAIN Sustainability
Development Indicators (SDI) can be grouped into a number of key Core
and non-core Issues were discussed. Highlights of this visit were a regional
workshop on “Sustainability of the coastal areas in the province
of Teramo: Integrated Management (ICZM) and operational policies”
opened by Valter Catarra, president of the province of Teramo; and also
the visit to the Marine Protected Area “Torre del Cerrano”,
Pineto, with various presentation of local experiences.
Programme Workshop
and
Inter-regional Exchange Visit
See Videos in the Italian National page |
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The workshop has been dedicated to report progress by all partners in the work being done for the development of the Sustainability Indicator set. An excursion to the coast has also been organised at this occasion.
Programme Workshop |
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The project partners gathered in the Wadden Sea Island Schiermonnikoog to discuss and present views about ‘Sustainability and the opportunities it opens up for New member states’, as well as to have a visit to the island including a presentation done by the Louis Wiersema, Councillor of the Municipality. It has been also a good opportunity for partners from Slovenia and Cyprus to introduce their experiences so far, as well as an invitee from Romania who shared the experience from a new member state and the efforts being done towards coastal sustainable development.
Programme agenda of inter-regional visit
Video of Louis Wiersema, Councillor - Schiermonnikoog Municipality |
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The inter-regional exchange visit to Cavalaire consisted of a series of short presentations from various local stakeholders. One of these was concerned with environmental management of harbours which started as a local event and is now a Europe-wide phenomenon. The visit was well designed with a mix of field trip and workshop sessions and enabled partners to explore, with the 3 local communities and the Observatoire Marin, a range of issues about sustainability at the coast. The work on bathing water quality and how it tied in with the catchment management requirements of the Water Framework Directive was particularly interesting as this is different from how the Directives are being implemented in the UK and in Portugal, for example.
Programme Inter-regional exchange visit |
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This new project initiative aims to ensure that the integrated management
of coastal issues will be sustainable. SUSTAIN (Assessing sustainability
and strengthening operational policies) is an INTERREG IVC project that
has recently started and the kick-off event took place in the beautiful
municipality of Kouklia (Cyprus), one of the partners of the project.
Twelve European partners will be
working together, including eight regional and local authorities under
the lead of the Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC) during the coming 3
years.
The Local and regional authorities are making efforts to use ICZM planning
approaches to lead to sustainable development. A number of actions need
to be implemented along the coast to improve sustainability. The criteria
for assessing sustainability at the coast which will be developed and
tested in SUSTAIN will provide the management policy tool which is very
much needed and currently lacking.
“SUSTAIN is an ambitious and comprehensive project that will develop
a fully implementable, self-assessment policy tool to measure the extent
that sustainable development is being applied in all 22 coastal states
of the EU.” said project manager Alan Pickaver. “The partners
in this exciting project have come together to address the challenges
that coastal communities face from issues like climate change, pressure
on natural resources and the need for economic, social and cultural well-being
by providing a new and innovative tool that can be used by the communities
to enable them to live in and manage their own surroundings sustainably.”
said Caroline Salthouse, communications lead partner (external expert
for Sefton Council).
SUSTAIN Agenda kick-off meeting
Video of the opening of SUSTAIN project in Kouklia Cyprus, February 2010 |
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SUSTAIN Workshop: Lisbon (Portugal)