The TRANSEATION main objective is to demonstrate the effectiveness of marine and coastal hybrid blue-grey infrastructures and validate a new level of ecosystem-based management combining nature-based solutions, social implication digitalization to the protection and restoration of marine ecosystem health and services applying the following 5 specific objectives:

• Apply EBM through a systematic approach to integrate hybrid NbS in marine and coastal infrastructures to support the preservation and restoration of marine biodiversity and ecosystem services while addressing multiple societal challenges (environmental, social, and economic benefits).
• Demonstrate the effectiveness of [3] type of coastal and marine infrastructures as hybrid NbS both to preserve ecosystems and support their restoration considering its replicability and scaled-up.
• Identify limiting factors, gaps, and current issues of existing LEED initiatives regarding “blue building”, and setting up links with previous projects.
• Analyze the benefits and potential trade-offs of these hybrid solutions in the short and long term for marine biodiversity and ecosystem services protection and restoration.
• Digital solutions for monitoring, analysis, and social involvement 

CMCC role
CMCC-RAAS Division will lead the WP14 on “Evidence-based effectiveness evaluation of hybrid blue-grey infrastructures in project demonstrators” collecting technical evidence from effective implementation of blue-grey infrastructures, acquiring ecological and environmental evidence on the effectiveness of implemented blue-grey infrastructures and gathering financial, economic and social evidence of impact on blue-gray infrastructures implementation.
CMCC will also lead Task 3.2 on Systematic risk assessment for hybrid blue-grey infrastructure in marine and coastal areas and Task 3.3 on baselines and monitoring standardization.

Activities
TRANSEATION is structured in 19 WPs

• WP1 Project management and coordination I
• WP2 Project management and coordination II
• WP3 EBM framework for hybrid blue-grey infrastructures
• WP4 Coastal protection infrastructure demonstrator I: development
• WP5 Coastal protection infrastructure demonstrator II: development
• WP6 Offshore wind farm infrastructure demonstrator: development
• WP7 Low-trophic aquaculture infrastructure demonstrator: development
• WP8 Hybrid infrastructures demonstrators: monitoring
• WP9 Citizen science digital application
• WP10 Hybrid Infrastructure Management Tool I
• WP11 Hybrid Infrastructure Management Tool II
• WP12 Stakeholder engagement and upscaling I
• WP13 Stakeholder engagement and upscaling II
• WP14 Evidence-based effectiveness evaluation of hybrid blue-grey infrastructures in project demonstrators
• WP15 Framework development for “blue buildings” rating system
• WP16 Dissemination and communication I
• WP17 Dissemination and communication II
• WP18 Exploitation
• WP19 Ethics requirements

Expected results
TRANSEATION’s expected results are the following:

• Pave the way for a new level of ecosystem-based management, in which future marine and coastal infrastructures are intentionally designed and actively used to support the restoration of marine ecosystem health and services, where nature-based solutions alone cannot be envisaged;
• Contribute to the development of a framework for “blue buildings” rating based on the model of the LEED green building rating system;
• Up scalable Blueprints integrating the conception, installation, exploitation, and maintenance of hybrid blue-grey infrastructures that are beneficial to ecosystem functioning and restoration;
• Mainstreaming biodiversity in marine and coastal infrastructures and activities.

Partners

• Fundacion Azti – Azti Fundazioa, Spain
• Spotteron Gmbh, Austria
• Ocean Ecostructures, Spain
• Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italy
• Fundacion Gaiker, Spain
• Leibniz-Institut Fur Ostseeforschung Warnemunde, Germany
• Itsaskorda Sl, Spain
• Association Eco Ocean, Israel
• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
• Saitec Sa, Spain
• University Of Haifa, Israel
• Green Living Projects Sl, Spain
• Sintef Ocean As, Norway
• Geocorail, France

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