Second Call for Proposals

Specific Objective 2.1: Enhancing resilience to climate change, natural and man-made disasters

Indicative Actions eligible for funding:

• Develop, implement, and promote transnational climate change adaptation strategies, plans and test solutions with a focus on people’s health, preservation of natural and cultural heritage and urban areas
• In the framework of Maritime Spatial Planning activities, develop transnational joint plans and pilot actions to boost resilience to climate change in marine ecosystems.
• Design and implement strategies and action plans at local, regional and national level for the safeguard of water resources (rainwater management, river and lake water retention, water scarcity, drinking water, water availability, agricultural forecasting, breeding, industry and population).

Specific Objective 2.3: Supporting environmental preservation and protection Indicative Actions eligible for funding:

• Collect compelling information and use it to develop advocacy material to strengthen synergies and increase preparedness among local/regional/national policy makers and administrators to set in place actions aimed at improving policy frameworks, governance and management schemes of existing or underway marine/natural protected areas
• Exchange of good practices and testing of solutions for sustainable tourism through participatory approaches and multi-level governance
• Identify and test joint action to ensure sustainable food and traditional agricultural products (e.g.: old seeds safeguard, traditional animal breeding etc.) to support the zero-km food chain, food safety and quality
• Contribute to the generation of positive impacts on the Adriatic-Ionian population’s health through the identification of good practices and the implementation of pilot actions aimed at reducing air, water and soil pollution
• Define joint actions to enhance soil and water preservation by ensuring data collection and their public availability (e.g.: feeding EU networks like Data Network – EMODnet, agriculture data space).

Indicative Actions eligible for funding:

• Develop and test innovative planning tools/solutions forecasting future demand for public transport in view of the impact caused by current socio-demographic changes and present pandemic situation on intermodal national, regional and local mobility.
• Implement transnational integrated action plans supporting the development of rail-sea transportation intended as intermodal and multimodal transport mode.
• Map infrastructural, technological, legislative gaps and barriers to freight circulation including the legal and administrative variances hampering the efficiency of smooth transnational transport, in order to create a common transnational transport policy framework
• Improve accessibility within the Adriatic-Ionian region, with a focus on peripheral areas, to the TEN-T network through the implementation of action plans, tackling the bottlenecks hampering the transport sector growth and economic development.