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Newsletter Vol.1 of the BIO2CARE Project Reinforcing protected areas capacity through an innovative methodology for sustainability Newsletter 1: October 2018 BIO2CARE – A project that cares for the environment In this newsletter A Few Words for our Project • BIO2CARE – A project that cares for the Reinforcing protected areas capacity through an innovative methodology for environment sustainability “BIO2CARE” is a project approved for funding under the ✓ A Few Words for Greece-Bulgaria 2014-2020 territorial cooperation programme. BIO2CARE our Project falls under the Priority Axis 2: A Sustainable and Climate adaptable Cross- Border area, Thematic Objective 6: Preserving and protecting the ✓ Expected Results of environment and promoting resource efficiency, Investment Priority 6d: BIOCARE project Protecting and restoring biodiversity, soil protection and restoration and ✓ Our Partnership promoting ecosystem services including NATURA 2000 and green infrastructures. • Implementation of BIO2CARE project In full compliance with CBC GR-BG 2014-20 objective, BIO2CARE project • Activities of BIO2CARE overall objective is “To reinforce Protected Areas’ Management Bodies (PA project beneficiaries MBs) efficiency and effectiveness in an innovative and integrated approach”, promoting territorial cooperation in a very concrete and well-defined • Other News approach. BIO2CARE main objective is to enhance PA MBs administrative capacities on the benefit of biodiversity as of local communities. This is in full compliance with programme priority specific objective: “To enhance the effectiveness of biodiversity protection activities”. The Project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and by national funds of the countries participating in the Interreg V-A "Greece-Bulgaria 2014-2020" Cooperation Programme. Page 1 The BIO2CARE proposed decision-making platform could become a valuable tool for understanding the activities and quantifying their respective impacts on biodiversity (e.g. measuring ecological footprint, carbon footprint and water footprint). The monitoring activities proposed will give a competitive advantage in managing bodies to enhance their capabilities of protecting the areas of interest and mitigating illegal activities. Small infrastructures like pathways accessible by disable people will make PAs more attractive to new audience never been attracted so far, while will attract new target groups for neighboring businesses. At the same time this will be PAs contribution to social coherence. To further more support entrepreneurship on surrounding areas BIO2CARE will establish the process of awarding an ecolabel, a quality scheme that will help local businesses to show a qualitative distinction, surpassing competitors. BIO2CARE applies an integrated approach responding to PAs entire environmental systems. It will deliver a wide range of differentiated outputs. Its main deliverables are: (D.1) a set of studies, (D.2) one set of monitoring equipment fully operational per country, (D.3) two sets of ICT applications and e-tools for valorizing, studies and data produced from monitoring systems per country, (D.4) two small infrastructures certified for disabled people use, (D.5) one common labeling scheme, (D.6) training sessions and (D.7) one Policy Recommendations Report. D.1, D.2, D.3 will form the essential components of one integrate Decision Support system (DSS) per country, that could operate separately or jointly on the Cross-Border area. D.4, D.5, D.6 will feedback DSS. Lessons learned during BIO2CARE implementation and scientific results from studies will form the D.7 output, to be discussed during last quarter of project with local, regional and national authorities. The seven Rila lakes Credits: Rila National Park Page 2 Riparian forest, river Nestos Credits: Municipality of Nestos Expected Results of BIO2CARE project BIO2CARE project intervention logic was developed based on the theory of change, taking into account the attempted changes as the basis for a result orientated project. It will succeed so, (1) by producing new knowledge (WP3), (2) by applying to PA MBs new procedures and tools (WP3&4), (3) by setting the first solid foundations for one common or two commonly operating cross-border Decision Support system (-s) (WP4), (4) by setting in operation two jointly designed sets of monitoring equipment and exchanging information produced by them (WP4), (5) by setting in force an eco-labeling award scheme to help local businesses to overcome possible disadvantages emerge from protection status that apply (WP4), (6) by making PAs accessible to disable and aged persons (WP4 & 5), (7) by training specific target groups with training sessions and workshops (WP5), (8) by aware target groups and wide audience (WP2), (9) by contributing to a better policy making through Policy Recommendations Report (WP5). Page 3 Riparian forest, river Nestos Credits: Municipality of Nestos As BIO2CARE project is devoted to change, at the end of its implementation major positive impacts will be identified on PA MBs capacities and on local business communities. The development of the two e- tools will increase the managerial capacity of the PA MBs in order to improve the management of the PAs as systems, define and prioritize the necessary improvements. The combination with high-tech monitoring systems (both for fauna/flora and for illegal activities) will furthermore contribute to the improvement of PAs environmental status. Small technical works (pathways), will provide a steady groundwork for the promotion of green tourism without discrimination, for every disabled and/or aged person to enjoy the natural beauty of the PAs. This social approach of green tourism that is coupled with the promotion of the silver economy approach is expected to be a starting point for the establishment of similar activities in both countries. Page 4 Our Partnership We Cooperate! We Act Jointly and We All Win! Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh - LB) is represented in the Project by The Laboratory of Environmental Management and Industrial Ecology (LEMIE) which is one of the laboratories of the Department of Production and Management Engineering of the Engineering School of Democritus University of Thrace. LEMIE provides training for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Faculty of Engineering in environmental management, industrial ecology, environmental technology, industrial process systems and principles of sustainable development in Engineering. The main objective of LEMIE research activities is to increase the environmental sustainability of industrial systems through the development and adaptation of sustainable practices and strategies. LEMIE aims at realistic and applicable solutions based on holistic and innovative approaches and tools of Industrial Ecology. The research activities and interests of LEMIE extend to the following subjects: • Sustainable Development - Production: ✓ Development of methodologies for assessing the sustainability of industrial systems ✓ Analysis of the life cycle of technical systems ✓ Development of symbiotic eco-industrial actions ✓ Social operational licensing of industrial systems • Environmental Management: ✓ Environmental Impact Analysis ✓ Development of Sustainable Energy Action Plans addressing Climate Change ✓ Assessment of Carbon Footprint and Carrying Capacity of technical and wider systems • Environmental Technology - Air Pollution: ✓ Assessment of indoors and ambient air quality with emphasis on suspended particulate matter Page 5 The Municipality of Nestos (PB3), is located at the eastern most point of Macedonia (Kavala regional unit) having Chrysoupoli, as its capital city. It has a size of 679 km2 and a population of approximately 22.330 inhabitants. It is a place of unparalleled beauty with a diverse geophysical landscape. It has a rich mountainous mass with traditional villages, forests with beeches. Municipality of Nestos has been inherited with significant natural and cultural heritage capital as the historical nucleus of Chrysoupoli, the archaeological trade city of Pistyros, ancient Topeiros of Roman Via Egnatia, Lithochori with the burials of the horses, the imposing Monastery of Nikites, the Delta of Nestos, Keramoti with the emerald waters and the fine white sand as well as the largest riverside forest in Europe, Kotza Orman. Municipality of Nestos is a key transit node, as in its limits operates the airport "Megas Alexandros", as well as the port of Keramoti, through which is ensured a freight and passenger traffic to Thasos by ferry. The wetland complex of our municipality is one of the most important in Greece, due to high biological, aesthetic, scientific, educational and geomorphological value. The habitats of the Nestos Delta show an exceptional variety and make up a mosaic that favours wildlife. Our main objective is to enhance the natural environment and protect the habitats of rare flora and fauna that inhabit and breed in the area. The area around the Nestos River is full of history, which, starts from the Paleolithic Age. Thracian territory until the time of the Macedonians and constantly inhabited in the years of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, the area around Nestos remains a bounteous archaeological field for research and study. Due to large scale irrigation projects, Chrysoupoli is nowadays the center of agricultural production on the western side of the Nestos Delta. Agricultural cooperatives standardize and export a large number of agricultural products to foreign markets. The kiwis and the asparagus
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