ESPON Meeting, June 4-5 Nafplion, Greece SUSTAIN The project Dr Alan Pickaver & Ms Maria Fereira Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC)

ESPON Meeting, June 4-5 Nafplion, Greece Background Project co-financed by INTERREG IVC Programme Innovation & Environment Regions of Europe Sharing Solutions TOTAL BUDGET: € Jan.’10 – Dec. ’12 PARTNERSHIP: 12 Partners including 8 regional and/or local authorities, lead by EUCC

ESPON Meeting, June 4-5 Nafplion, Greece To have in place, at the end of three years, a fully implementable policy tool, applicable for all 22 coastal states of the EU, which will enable the self- assessment of the sustainability of local authorities. Objective

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece Conclusion  Friendly-to-use, self-assessment tool.  Participatory.  Highly sensitive, flexible and adaptive but robust.  After a baseline level is measured, further measurements show progress or otherwise.  Allows predictions to be made based upon different policy options.

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece 1. Governance has been dealt with through a checklist, not classical indicators. 2. The Issues and Indicators for Economics, Environmental Quality and Social Well-being have been divided into Core and Non-core issues. 3. An Indexing (scoring) methodology which gives SD Index (score). What is new?

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece Legacy of SUSTAIN DeCyDe-for-Sustainability: A coherent, policy-driven management tool comprising:  A set of agreed indicators, implementable at local and regional partner authority level  A means of scoring these indicators in an objective way.  A means of giving a cumulative indexation of the sustainability effort.

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece Integration land-sea Project was entirely based on ICZM. As this policy initiative has been included in the MSP, it directly addresses very focussed aspects of the maritime area related to the coastal zone rather than the open sea.

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece Implementing good ideas Our partners self-taught from good examples of other partners and implemented them e.g.  Bio-degradability signage for boat users,  Urban Consortium of different administrations for coastal regeneration,  Jelly fish monitoring

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece Europe 2020 goals Sustain was highly significant for MSP. The definitions of the Pillar Indicators are :  To promote and support a vigorous and sustainable economy;  To make available and promote sustainable environmental practices;  To promote social unity and durability;  To provide consistent management, cohesive policies….. for the wise use of the coast.

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece Stronger maritime dimension Learning from others (best practice) Improved cross-border cooperation Integration WFD and MSFD with MSP Coastal areas MUST be included despite lack of ICZM Directive

ESPON meeting, 4-5 June Nafplion, Greece Maria Ferreira Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC) Postbus EE Leiden, Netherlands Tel Fax THANK YOU!