SuPorts/Sustainable Management for European Local Ports
DESCRIPTION:
This project will help smaller ports and the local authorities managing them to address environmental issues. Most EU ports are small ports often combining shipping, fishing and leisure activities. Despite their small size they have important economic, social and environmental links with their surroundings. Together, the thousands of European local ports have a large cumulative impact. They face environmental challenges from EU policy and legislation, and higher expectations from their users and local residents, but they lack the tools to respond to these challenges.
OBJECTIVES:
The aim of SuPorts is to help local ports to design better environmental strategies and to have easy access to suitable environmental management tools in order for them to remain competitive and to contribute to a more sustainable EU.
The project proposes 2 axis:
- an exchange of experience to identify and promote better practice in the fields of dredging, protecting the marine biodiversity and involving stakeholders.
- and the development of environmental management tools appropriate for smaller ports.
Partners will work together to customize existing environmental management tools, such as self-diagnosis, indicators, and environmental management systems, that have been developed for large ports or other fields, to produce easy and ready-to-use tools that are relevant for use by local ports. Better practice by larger and leading-edge, small ports will be identified and tools developed for use by local ports and local authorities to encourage them to be pro-active environmental players: designing and implementing innovative environmental and port polizie.
ACTIVITIES:
Over three years, the partners, supported by experts, will share and identify better practice, as well as test and formalize methodological tools. Activities will include trainings, studies, workshops, field work and the drafting of easy-to-read technical documentation. The results of this work will put at the disposal of all European local ports, practical guides on how to design and implement sustainable strategies and environmental management tools. These deliverables will be made available on-line and in paper formats, but also disseminated by Europe-wide confererences, local dissemination events in different languages and through a network of trainers.
TIME: 01-01-2010 - 31-12-2012
LEAD PARTNER :
Seine-Maritime County Council (SMCC)
Quai Jean Moulin
76101, Rouen Cedex
FRANCE
Contact Leadpartner:
Delphine MARTINET
Phone : (33-0) 2 35 03 51 96
Fax : (33-0) 2 35 03 51 85
PARTNERS:
Seine-Maritime County Council (SMCC), Rouen Cedex
Public entity Ports of Galicia (PdG), Santiago de Compostela
East Sussex County Council (ESCC), Lewes
Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Roma
Klaipéda State Seaport Authority (KSSA), Klaipeda
Mediterranean SOS Network (MedSOS), Athens
DANETH-Intermun. Dev. Co. of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
Piombino Port Authority (APP), Piombino
EcoPorts Foundation (EPF), Amsterdam
ANCI IDEALI European Foundation of Cities (IDEALI), Roma
CITTALIA - ANCI RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Rome
Total budget : EUR 2 088 969
ERDF contribution : EUR 1 620 101.15
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