What we do
Wetlands are globally endangered. In the Mediterranean, the intensification of agriculture, poor water management, and pollution, and increasing urbanization are among the most pressing threats. These challenges intertwine scientific-environmental aspects and governance concerns. Wetland management can be effectively faced only by overcoming sectoral and administrative borders, looking at the Mediterranean ecosystems as a hole.
The Wetland Contract is a collaborative governance tool aiming at addressing these issues assuring higher coordination between preservation issues and economic activities but also to revalorize cultural heritage and its values. The Wetland Contract has already been tested in several projects financed by the European Union.
As a transfer project, WE GO COOP capitalize these experiences working at two different levels:
- by creating a Community of Practice at the Mediterraneanlevel among actors engaged in Wetland Contracts, capitalizing on the outcomes of previous projects, sharing challenges and solutions. WE GO COOP will work on the creation of a virtual and collaborative platform for this Community of Practice, where experiences, practices, agent mappings, lists of useful indicators in wetland management, etc. will be uploaded and shared.
- by reinforcing the tool of Wetland Contract at a local level incountries that have already tested it (Italy, Greece, Spain) and by transferring the tool in new EU nations (Croatia, Portugal, and Albania) and the South and the Middle East Med region. The transfer process capitalizes on the tested tool of the Roadshow which has proven effective for the adaptation and transfer of Wetland Contracts methodologies.
Transnational cooperation becomes the tool through which WE GO COOP forms the Community of Practice uniting diverse perspectives facing similar challenges, enabling the project to meet the needs of wetlands on a large scale, ensuring the transferability of its results.
