2Bparks

GENERAL DESCRIPTION There is a strong connection between the protection of fragile areas, the enhancement of natural resource and the sustainable development. The promotion of protected Areas (PA) has a significance that crosses administrative borders: it becomes both a tool for increasing collective environmental awareness and the engine of a wider territorial durable growth. 2Bparks project assumes this perspective developing innovative PA governance patterns with the general scope of integrating environmental considerations into spatial plans ,into investiments choices and core institutional thinking. To increase MED PA sustainable attractiveness, the project appeals to: - Participatory planning for PA management - Sustainable tourism for PA territorial marketing - Science Education and Awareness for PA social cohesion. PA managers, planners, decision makers, researchers, territorial stakeholders and civil society will be involved by PPS in the experimentation of: - PA ACTION PLANS, based on the principles of subsidiary, equality and sustainability and able to capitalize past experiences, previous studies and researches, while implementing the main EU guidelines - Shared MARKETING strategy and Joint Promotional Actions to promote MED PA as exemplary destination, where business meets environment, creating new job opportunities and where nature conservation becomes a factor of social cohesion - INTEGRATED NETWORK to reduce the gap among research and work and to disseminate good practices in the wider context of user groups - Science Education and AWARE RAISING ACTIONS, planned for specific users (seminars, transnational camps to improve pp’s staff, managers, experts and researchers) and target groups, starting form schools and youth to general public (school transnational award, didactic guide, site visits). Project deliverables have been planned with an high degree of capitalization and transferability. The followings, in particular, will ensure project continuity: - The ROADMAP, which is not a further handbook, but an user friendly tool, designed to support PA managers in orienting themselves among the multitude of existing guidelines (Eurosite, Europarc, IUCN…) and selecting the most suitable ones - The NOTEBOOK, a practical tool for public and private operators, who agree in developing the sustainable tourism in the MED PA and in entering the Eurocharter network - The SOURCEBOOK and the linked Edu-platform, to ensure a continuous Knowledge system updating and to increase the employment potentiality of all people interesting in PA, students and private employers. By the end of the project, after the implementation of project experimental actions and the setting up of shared tools, pps expect a new MAINSTREAM to be parks (2Bparks) and to increase values and opportunities of the MED protected Areas. RRI FOCUS Ranking of the most relevant RRI dimensions, where 6 is the most relevant to the project •Science education •Governance PROJECT OUTCOMES RELATED TO RRI Which are the most relevant project outcomes (roadmaps, guidelines, documents, reports, articles, videos etc) in terms of RRI? LESSONS LEARNED POLICY RELATED LESSONS LEARNED Main policy briefs produced by the project and related URL Policy brief 1 Policy brief 2 Policy brief 3 Policy brief 4 Policy brief 5

2Bparks Duration 2009-2012 Project coordinator patrizia.grifoni@irpps.cnr.it Fundings framework Interreg IV Website http://www.programmemed.eu/en/the-projects/project-database/results/view/single.html?no_cache=1&idProject=90 Marine Region Focus Value not available Marine Related Issues Value not available Sectors Marine Protected Areas Themes Risk, vulnerability and resilience Stakeholders Involved •Scientists and Research Organization •Educational Organizations and Students