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The project aims at supporting citizens and local actors to identify and solve important environmental problems related to the management of water and marine environmental protection in the French Riviera, Valencia and Ionian Islands regions in order to enhance their participation in the environmental legislative and decision making processes. The U@MARENOSTRUM technological platform will be a web-based Public Participation GIS created through the customization of the Gov2Demoss open source platform integrated with a Geographic Information System (GIS). The platform will capture all information on environmental issues on a geographical map. Three regional administrative bodies from the Ionian Islands Region (Greece), the French Riviera (France) and the Region of Valencia (Spain) will use the U@MARENOSTUM platform for a trail period of 14 months. That is why three platforms with a regional ‘look and feel’ (including language) will be specifically designed to serve the citizens of the participating regions, but citizens from other regions will be also welcome to use the platforms. The local decision-makers as well as Members of Parliaments will be able to ask citizens’ opinions in order to gather feedback specific policy issues, such as River Basin Management Plans, Marine Strategy or Costal Zone Management. At the same time, citizens will be better informed about the EU water and marine environment policies as well as about national water and marine environmental policies. Thus, they will be able to monitor the implementation of the EU legislation in their country. Furthermore, the project will create a framework for exchange and cooperation between Member States. In this way, the actions in the environmental sector will be made more coherent and the conservation of the marine ecosystems and sustainable water resource management will be supported. Furthermore, a study will be developed within the project in order to analyze the attitudes of the citizens from France, Spain and Greece regarding their participation in environmental decision-making and the laws, regulations, administrative provisions and practices related to the public participation in decision-making in environmental matters in these countries. The results of this study will help us to identify the best ways to increase the participation of the citizens in our project. Extensive dissemination activities will be undertaken at local, national and European level in order to ensure appropriate interest in the project. These activities will be targeted at citizens, local associations and public and private institutions concerned about environmental issues and will be realized in close cooperation with other projects under the same call so as to encourage the adoption of a common dissemination and raise awareness strategy. |
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The project "u@marenostrum" is co-financed within the programme "eParticipation 2008" of the European Commission.  |