Acronym U@MARENOSTRUM
Category
Aquaculture
Title Strengthening Public Participation for water protection and management Programme Nat. Programme (supported by ESIF)
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National-European Coordinator V. Valavanis Coordinator email valavanis@hcmr.gr
Coordinator institution
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Institutions involved
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Start year 2009 End year 2010 Funding (€) € 96,300 Website https://imbriw.hcmr.gr/umarenostrum/ Summary The project aims at supporting citizens and local actors to identify and solve important environmental problems related to the management of water and marine environmental protection in the Valencian and Ionian Islands regions in order to enhance their participation in the environmental legislative and decision making processes. The U@MARENOSTRUM technological platform will be a web-based Public Participation GIS created through the customization of the Gov2Demoss open source platform integrated with a Geographic Information System (GIS).
The overall objectives of the project are the following:
To reconnect citizens with politics and policy making by strengthening and broadening citizens participation in decision making process
To address a key issue at EU and national and regional levels too: Environment
To complement and advance the eParticipation activities already undertaken by the European Union in order to identify what the future orientation of eParticipation
To provide both decision-makers and the public with clear and understandable information on the decision-making process for the environmental policy field
To familiarize citizens with the decision making process, making easy to citizens to visualize and identify the stages of decision making process
To enable people with the same interests to form groups which transverse geographic barriers, and help these groups to participate in decision-making on environmental issues in the Mediterranean region
To address with the use of ICT multilingual and multicultural problems of people wanted to be involved in the decision making process
The specific objectives of the project are the following:
To advance the concept of environmental democracy via the use of ICT
To present new ways of effectively presenting information and communicating - promoting increased transparency in tracking legislation and decision making processes
To introduce and test Public Participation GIS to manage geospatial boundary and statistical information that can support well-informed decisions for the management of water and marine environmental protection in the Mediterranean region
To make EU environmental legislation accessible for everyone through electronic mean
To support citizens and local actors monitor the implementation of EU water and maritime environmental policies in the Mediterranean region.
To obtain public input for designing long term environmental policies, which are in line with EU environmental policies, to be implemented in the Valencian and Ionian Island regions
To make it possible for citizens with limited knowledge of the subject area and low-level IT skills to profit from eParticipation tools.
Keywords
Aquaculture management;
Policy;
Sustainability;
Spatial planning;
Fisheries management;
Marine Region
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Northern Spain (GSA 6)
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Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
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Marine Region Map
