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AREAEUROPA scrl Via Salvador Allende 13 I- 40139 Bologna Phone: 0039-051-5883206 Fax: 0039-051-3370493 http://www.areaeuropa.it PROJECT IDEA “Veneto I” Project name Short title Inform about, prevent and compensate for environmental damages caused by natural disasters and the climatic change in wet areas WETLANDS-RISK Lead partner Ente Parco Regionale Veneto del Delta del Po (proposal) Contact persons Stefan Moritz Federica Gorni e-mail smoritz@areaeuropa.it e federica.gorni@gmail.com Telephone Moritz: +39 051 5883248 (mob) +39 348 7916601 Key words European Program Environmental damages, climatic change, natural disasters, risk prevention Obj.3 Territorial Trans-national Cooperation “Central Europe” or South Eastern Europe” 75% for EU Member States Obj. “competitiveness and employment”, 85% for EU Member States Obj. “Convergence” (to be published) 36 months Veneto (Regional Park “Po Delta) Biosphere Reserve “Fluvial landscape of Central Elba” (D) Biosphere Reserve “ Danube Delta” (RO) Slovenia (Secovlje Saline) Consortium of the Regional Park of Emilia Romagna Co-funding rate Call deadline Project duration Other parners Fax +39 051 3371028 Project description Saline transgression, coastal erosion, lowering of the water bearing-layer, increase of average temperatures of sea and fresh water, spontaneous overflows, habits changes in flora and fauna life, progressive decrease of rare and precious habitats, water pollution. A series of different threats that plague wet coastal and river environments, that, besides other known factors, are increased also by the first effects of climatic changes. The managing authorities of protected wet areas gathered in the project find more and more the need to intervene against those phenomenons in their areas sharing best practice, studies results and intervention techniques. It is necessary to proceed immediately in three different ways: Innovative information - based on fact studies and data – towards inhabitants and visitors about the effect of climatic changes and natural damages verifiable on the protected areas of the partners, in order to strengthen the need to intervene with the help of everybody, suggesting also improving actions and behaviours, but without minimizing the problems entity. Prevention through a coordinated action plan on different levels, to contrast the contestable phenomenons and to attenuate the effect of the unpredictable ones. Compensation of irreparable damages or negative inputs coming from outside, such as water pollution, through pilot actions that show feasibility and ensure, with and exact calculation, which damages have been compensated. In this last field of action of the project, innovative funding forms such as public-private sector and fund raising for compensation will be tested. AREAEUROPA scrl Via Salvador Allende 13 I- 40139 Bologna Phone: 0039-051-5883206 Fax: 0039-051-3370493 http://www.areaeuropa.it Main Objectives - Preservation of the environmental integrity of protected areas and neighbouring rural and urban areas, with higher intensity, both through information – testing innovative communication methods – and prevention and/or compensation plans, coordinated on different levels and tested through pilot actions. - Deeper awareness of inhabitants and visitors of protected and neighbouring areas, involving them in the environmental protection of the partner areas. Expected results Draft of best practice, techniques, organization procedures, methods and technologies which – already consolidated and based on international studies – can be used as an example for effective information actions about prevention and compensation of environmental damages, due to natural risks and climatic changes. Information to the majority of the population and visitors about the environmental problems that plague the wet areas managed by the partners. Draft and agreement of an action plan coordinated on different competence levels for the prevention and/or compensation of environmental damages occurring to partner areas. Test of compensation pilot actions. Timing TIMING: Submission within March/April 2008: - Identification, contact and involvement of Italian and foreign partners: WITHIN MARCH 20TH, 2008 - Collection of required documents and writing of project proposal on the application form: WITHIN THE BEGINNING OF APRIL 2008 MODULE TRANS-NATIONAL ACTIONS PROPOSALS POSSIBLE PILOT LOCAL ACITONS A. Planning and preparation - Comparison among project partners about available methods and technologies - Studies/trans-national counselling for all partners about the realization of new tools and guide services - Study visits in territories that have already developed such systems and services - Local analysis - Elaboration of executive action plans - Definition of territorial cross reference systems (land zapping) B. Technical implementation of new guide systems - Comparison among project partners about executive plans, “best practice” and adopted technical solutions - Realization and set of “cross reference system signs - Setting of data bases, filling and translation - Installation of wi-fi networks for data transmission - Programming of interfaces and specific languages for pocket pcs, mobile phones and gps - Online and in office distribution of access keys and /or digital supports for virtual guide systems C. Education - Comparison among project partners about innovative education methods for “friend guide” and “experience tourism” within the frame of the upgrading of cultural heritage - Preparation of educational material and programs for guides - Realization of courses/workshops for guides and country resorts operators D. Information / Promotion - Joint information campaign on a national level - Documentation of activities and results - Realization of information and promotional actions to advertise new opportunities to discover partner rural territories
