COASTAL

Project Description:

COASTAL worked on improving rural-coastal synergies in strategic business and policy decision-making, but also collaboration between coastal and rural actors. The project developed and demonstrated a generic toolset and performance indicators, combining a multi-actor approach with system dynamics modelling. At the end, this allowed stakeholders to understand the interactions with market, demographic, environmental and climate forecasts, and quantify the positive and negative externalities. 

Using a co-creation process that combined local knowledge with scientific expertise, COASTAL engaged actors at all levels to improve coastal-rural interdependence and collaboration by identifying problems and setting up evidence-based business roadmaps and policy solutions, focusing on economic growth, marine spatial planning, and environmental protection, including inland water quality. 

The project contributed to integrated coastal-rural planning and synergy in the case study regions (in Belgium, Sweden, France, Romania, Spain, and Italy), and the wider EU territory. It also launched an online platform for knowedge exchange about coastal-rural synergy, with concrete examples and tools for supporting land-sea collaboration. 

 

Geonardo's Role:

Leader of the Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Work Package. In this role, Geonardo also developed and launched the project's Knowledge Exchange Platform, its main legacy and a repository of project results. 

 

Key Contributions:

• Strategic Communication & Branding: We developed the project's brand identity, including a comprehensive communication and dissemination tailored to reach target groups and end-users effectively.
• Optimised Digital Presence: Geonardo designed and maintains a modern, user-friendly website and interactive online spaces to engage stakeholders and foster collaboration.
• Content Creation & Outreach: We producee high-quality communication materials, ensuring regular updates across all channels, and drive engagement through event promotion, stakeholder engagement, and collaborations with EU projects and institutions.
• Impact-Driven Dissemination: Supporting other work packages, Geonardo ensures resultsweree effectively disseminated, creating opportunities for knowledge-sharing and real-world application of project outcomes.
• Exploitation & Sustainability: We led the development of an exploitation plan, ensuring project results achieve lasting impact and adoption by relevant actors.
• Training and Capacity Building: We developed and launched the project's online platform as a key aggregator of project results to facilitate knowledge exchange