Workshop “Best practices for the protection of the marine environment: the contribution of EU LIFE projects

20 Octber – Conference Room, Pavilion Expo Venice By the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea - Department SVI.

The EU's LIFE program has financed several projects on efficient management, conservation and sustainable use of water resources and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems.

The event Expo Venice Aquae stands as an opportunity to meet between LIFE beneficiaries to promote the exchange of best practices, compare the most significant experiences gained and results achieved under the various projects completed or under construction, as well as stimulating discussion of the most significant issues that emerged in the implementation of the same. The purpose of the initiative is to create an opportunity for constructive dialogue not only between LIFE beneficiaries, but also between them and all those who want to implement the results of the projects on the same themes under the different instruments provided by Community programming 2014-2020, in order to contribute to the desired complementarity between funds/European programs to achieve the common objectives in this field.

The workshop will therefore characterized by a dynamic dialogue between the various LIFE beneficiaries and various stakeholders who will be able, with the support of appropriate methods of facilitation, to compete on the objectives, the results and suggestions of the LIFE projects.

Participation in the work of the workshop of key stakeholders, public and private, working in the water sector and the marine environment should favor, in the intention of the organizers, the activation of appropriate communication channels and a network of contacts, both national and European, which will promote the implementation of the results of successful LIFE projects and, consequently, in order to address the shared challenges of improving water quality, energy and water savings and the improvement and protection of the marine environment and coastal environment.

Workshop registration: http://goo.gl/forms/652agLY7SO

Go to the website page of Venice Expo Aquae event

Go to LIFE 2007-2013 page of MATTM website

On the next day (October 21) will be organized two visits to the project sites LIFE Seresto, LIFE Vimine e LIFE Wstore2.

objective

reduction of sea turtle mortality in the professional fishing

project in brief

The conservation of Caretta caretta, a priority species included in App. II/IV of the Habitat Directive and protected in various international Conventions, has been representing a strategic issue for the whole Mediterranean basin, with professional fishing being the main threat for the survival of marine turtles: every year about 130000 turtles can be accidentally caught accidentally in the Mediterranean.

The project TartaLife, involving all 15 Italian regions overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, aims at reducing:
- bycatches caused by pelagic longline, bottom trawl and fixed nets by disseminating technical innovations of the fishing gears;
- post-capture mortality through trainings for fishermen and strengthening the marine turtles First Aid/Rescue Centres

TartaLife project

Life+ programme

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental policy and legislation by co-financing pilot or demonstration projects with European added value.

LIFE began in 1992 and to date there have been four complete phases of the programme (LIFE I: 1992-1995, LIFE II: 1996-1999, LIFE III: 2000-2006 and LIFE+: 2007-2013). During this period, LIFE has co-financed some 3954 projects across the EU, contributing approximately €3.1 billion to the protection of the environment.

Life+ programme