Launch event of the AMMIRARE Project
Last 25 and 26 March, the activities of the AMMIRARE project focused on the resilience of beaches in the western Mediterranean area officially began. The launch event was held in Pisa which coordinates the cross-border collaboration initiative financed by the INTERREG Italy-France Maritime community programme. The meeting was attended by experts from the National Center for the Characterization and Protection of the Coast, Marine Climatology and Operational Oceanography of ISPRA who are responsible for the advancement of component 1 of this project which proposes actions and methodologies for the improvement of the resilience of the beaches.
In more detail, ISPRA will carry out, with the contribution of all the project partners, an analysis of the impacts of climate change on the ecosystems relating to the beaches of the cooperation area and will conduct their morphological and ecological characterization activities also using drones marine, in order to develop a suitable adaptation and resilience strategy. ISPRA will also contribute to the drafting of a guide that will provide indications for maintaining and restoring the resilience capabilities of the beach system not only in the identified pilot sites, but which also contains useful elements for the entire Mediterranean basin.
With an overall budget of over 5 million euros and a duration of 42 months, the 15 partners involved
will promote the sustainability of Mediterranean beaches through the use of nature-based solutions (NBS) and the implementation of tools to combat and predict the effects of climate change on the beach system, actively involving the multiple local actors of the pilot sites identified in Liguria, Tuscany, Sardinia, Corsica and France, in particular with regard to the acceptability of the proposed solutions and the socio-economic benefits induced by the tools and methodologies developed by AMMIRARE.
The meetings to launch the project activities also served to establish the various stages and deadlines that mark the achievement of the objectives of this ambitious project which promotes sustainable management of the coasts, the experimentation of nature-based solutions and the adoption of the beach concept ecological through land governance tools aimed at preventing and combating the effects of climate change on the coastal ecosystem.