BlueGreen Governance is a project funded by HORIZON Europe Research and Innovation Actions in response to the call “Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal”. The project pursues an innovative approach to the governance of the seas and coastal areas that links marine policies with the management of the land and waters impacting on sea basins. More precisely, BlueGreen Governance will develop evidence-based pathways for the design and implementation of innovative governance schemes around the land-sea connection that incorporates both the scientific predictions of future developments (about the biodiversity-water-climate nexus) and societal views on the most viable policy responses.
General aims
General objectives
The main goal of BlueGreen Governance project is to develop innovative land-sea governance schemes based on scientific evidence and societal choices. This bold objectives breaks down into the following specific objectives (SOs):
• SO1: To understand the institutional and socio-political barriers jeopardising marine policies’ design, implementation and change across multiple levels of governance, and identify enablers for effective marine governance (“Identification of institutional barriers and enablers”).
• SO2: To co-design innovative schemes of governance in collaboration with scientists and all other stakeholders from target groups and direct users to indirect beneficiaries of marine policies (“Co-design of innovative governance schemes”).
• SO3: To put into practice innovative governance schemes for marine policies in several European regions and sea basins in order to improve their design and implementation, and evaluate the impact of institutional innovations (“Policy experimentations”).
• SO4: To promote institutional change and policy reforms in land-sea governance beyond policy experimentations (“Moving towards integrated land-sea governance”).
CMCC role
CMCC will lead the WP3 – Policy Experimentations. This WP focuses on governance experimentation in an effort to operationalize the innovative governance schemes elaborated in WP2 with the support of key outcomes from strategic foresight analysis. The aim of WP3 is to develop new forms of collaborative governance in the case studies enabling both technical and social innovations in decision-making, public policies and service delivery for an integrated land-sea management. Key findings will be transferred to WP4, paving the way for strategic and integrated land-sea policies.
Activities
BlueGreen Governance project is structured in 6 work packages (WP):
- Identification of institutional barriers and enablers
- Co-design of innovative governance schemes
- Policy experimentations
- Moving towards integrated land-sea governance
- Communication and dissemination
- Management
Expected results
BlueGreen Governance projects aims at:
- Informing the scientific and policy-making community with a better understanding of the power imbalances and institutional barriers in the formulation and implementation of marine policies.
- Contributing to stronger digital solutions and e-government that support local communities, society at large and the Blue Economy.
- Demonstrating how to mobilise and engage stakeholders, and use appropriate communication, exchange and coordination in marine policy-making and land-sea management at regional, national, and European level.
- Providing the policy-making community with analyses and better understanding of formal and informal policy governance work streams or processes, including public consultation and encompassing local, regional, national, European, and global ocean governance aspects.
- Producing more scientific knowledge on how to enhance the performance of land-sea governance through the deployment of collaborative schemes that allow social as well as scientific innovations.
Partners
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
Universiteit Antwerpen (UANTWERPEN), Belgium
CMCC, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui cambiamenti climatici (CMCC), Italy
Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning (NIVA), Norway
Université Paris-Saclay (UPSACLAY), France
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), France
Institut National des Science et Industries du vivant et de l’environnement – AgroParisTech (APT), France
Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNL), The Netherlands
Universitad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain
Fundacion Canaria Parque Cientifico tecnologico de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (FCPCT-ULPGC), Spain
Stichting Radboud Universiteit (RU), The Netherlands
Tartu Ulikool (UTARTU), Estonia
Urbanisticni Intitut Republike Slovenije Javni Zavod (UIRS), Slovenia
Université de la Réunion (UR), France
KOFY (SK), France
University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation (UoP), Great Britain