Submitted by laborate on Fri, 04/05/2012 - 12:30 GMT.
The Land Laboratory attended the study visit to Patra (Greece)
of the F:ACTS! project,
which was held from the 26th to the 29th
of April.
F:ACTS! is funded by INTERREG IV programme,
and it seeks to generate knowledge on territorial strategies
for climate change adaptation by the collaboration and interchange
of experiences among 14 partners - being one of them the
University of Santiago de Compostela, represented by the
Land Laboratory - from 8 different EU countries. The Land
Laboratory assumes the tasks of compiling and disseminating
the good practices indentified in F:ACTS!, as well as the
coordination of the writing work of a handbook which will
gather all the knowledge generated within the project.
Five pilot areas were chosen to put to practice the theoretical
knowledge acquired in F:ACTS!. One of them is the Strofylia
natural park, placed in the prefecture of Achaia (Greece).
Among the programmed activities in F:ACTS!, study visits
are made to the pilot areas both to identify problems and
make recommendations and to discover additional good practices
that can be transferred to other partner regions.
In the study visit to Patra, meetings were held to talk
about topics related to the handbook writing tasks and the
organization of the regional conferences that are going
to be held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Varna (Bulgaria)
and Brussels (Belgium) to disseminate the results of the
project among other European regions. The pilot area of
Strofylia was visited, where governance problems were identified
which were produced by a too centralized and sectorialized
administration which hampered stakeholder involvement and
bottom-up decision processes.
During the study visit, a dissemination event was also organized
to present the results of the project to local authorities,
members of the University of Patra and a representative
of the Greek Ministry of Environment. In this conference,
projects and experiences of the region were also presented,
from which several good practices where identified.