Georgia Destouni, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), enlighted us on the Norrström Basin in 🇸🇪. The main takeaway? 'We need combined strategies that focus on water quality aiming at reduction of nutrient loads from both active and legacy sources' #H2020

Benoit Othoniel, INRAE, discussed the main issues & challenges that affect the Charente River basin region in 🇫🇷. Key takeaways? ✅ There is a need to maintain the social fabric across the territory & ✅ to enhance synergies for healthy inland & coastal hydrosystems

And last but not least, @JorisdeVente, representative of the #MarMenor region in 🇪🇸, highlighted ✅ how important the #cocreation process is to foster constructive collaboration ✅and how we need to be considerate of the available resources and learn to prioritise efficiently 🎯

What about the results we've achieved over the past 4 years? Mariana Mata Lara, GEONARDO & Jean-Luc, VITO, showed the Key Knowledge Platform (#KEP) to all participants today! There, you'll find our best practices, #roadmaps, models for evidence-based analysis & more

We had a very insightful session on the work of H2020-AURORAL Project & Rural_interfaces, #H2020 projects that also focus on #coastal & rural development. Highlights? ✅ The importance of having smart tools & future policies relevant to EU rural areas ✅ The need for more #cocreation

Today's last panel discussion raised many questions and discussions on 📌 how to make more conscious energy consumption, face climate change issues 📌 and how to make long-lasting societal changes involving decision-makers and stakeholders alike #FoodForThought

🙌And that's a wrap! Thank you for joining us today; it's been great to meet such a varied group of coastal & rural stakeholders in Ostend. Our main takeaway? We can't make a real change in society w/o cooperation & commitment from different parties, but we're getting there💪!

Thanks COASTAL for sharing your journey, case studies and outcomes today. Let’s hope the policy makers take up the vital insights unearthed by so many amazing academics.

COASTAL partners spent the day visiting the Oudlandpolder, the Belgian case study. We discussed and reflected on #rural #coastal interactions, w/ special focus on nature, #agriculture, tourism & spatial planning linked to the problems different people of the region deal with.

Save the Date! Wed 16th Nov 9:00-16:30 CET ECFAS in association with the #CopernicusMarine Service, welcome you to a first look at the #ECFAS interactive platform during its End User Workshop. 👉Register now ➡️bit.ly/3z8UORZ

Excellent presentation of the 4 years work of the Romanian MAL COASTAL team just given by Luminita Lazar at #MARBLUE2022

📣 Great news: we launched our Knowledge Exchange Platform! The platform provides access to the knowledge & solutions produced in the project: best practices, policy solutions, models & publications. Check it out: bit.ly/3gNV960 #H2020