The management of oceans, seas and coasts is decentralised across multiple institutional layers and policy domains, capitalising on past experiences. The BlueGreen Governance project aims to develop new land-sea governance schemes that integrate institutions, policy sectors, scientific evidence and citizen participation. As an active response to changing physical conditions, the project team uses e-governance tools to influence land and sea use. Its objectives include improved decision-making, social engagement and digital innovation.
The use of e-governance tools will, according to the project description, contribute to establishing effective science-policy-society interfaces, facilitating better communication between science-policy, science-society and society-policy. The new governance schemes will be implemented through eight use cases in European regions and sea basins, and capacity building will be promoted.
With a budget of almost six million euros and fourteen partners from different universities and international research centres, ’the project is characterised by its social impact, given that it will generate effective, participatory and scientifically-based solutions to address environmental threats in eight regions of the world, including, as a case study, the Valencian coast’, according to Bernabé Aldeguer (Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Administration), a member of the team from the UV.
The aim of the conference will be to share the progress made in this first four-month period of work and to coordinate the future tools, platforms and methodologies that will guide the research work over the next four years.
Within the framework of the collaboration established between the Universitat de Valčncia’s promotional team and the Oceanogrāfic Foundation, the closing ceremony will be held in the Oval Hall of the Oceanogrāfic. Led by Bernabé Aldeguer, the following people will participate: Gianluca Ferraro, scientific coordinator of the Blue Green Governance project and researcher at the University of Portsmouth; Beatriz Domínguez, coordinator of the Oceanogrāfic Foundation and head of Sustainability at the Oceanogrāfic; Juan Carlos Caballero, Councillor for Institutional Relations of Valencia City Council; Antonio García Celda, Director General of the European Green Capital Status 2024, Raųl Mérida Gordillo, General Director for the Natural and Animal Environment of the Valencian Government; Aránzazu Fidalgo , Head of the Hydrological Planning Office of the Jųcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ), and Pilar Serra Aņķ, Vice-Principal for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Life of the UV.
