Project ID 03C1088
COASTCRAFT – Creative Options And Smart Techniques for Coastal Regions Adapting Flooding Tactics
Project partners:
- Municipality of Vlissingen, Netherlands (lead partner)
- AG OOSTENDE, Belgium
- Union of Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities, Bulgaria
- Udhetim i Lire – Liberi di Viaggiare, Albania
- Administration of Lithuania Minor Protected Areas, Lithuania
- Dirección general de Ordenación del Territorio yUrbanismo, Spain
- Province of Livorno, Italy
- City of Ostend, Belgium (associated partner)
Funded: Interreg Europe Program, Greener Europe (policy objective 2), Climate change (Specific objective)
Duration: 36 months
Total budget: 1,750,760.00 EUR
Ensuring coastal resilience demands cohesive policies across sectors and governance tiers. Siloed institutional mindsets hinder integration, fostering competition, resource dispersion, and mismanagement. The COASTCRAFT project focuses on coastal development, creative approaches, and climate change in coastal regions.
COASTCRAFT aims to reduce disparities between coastal areas by fostering innovation, knowledge exchange, and capacity-building initiatives. The project aims to enhance existing policy frameworks and develop new ones that support smart and creative solutions in the spatial and natural development of coastal regions, all with a focus on promoting smart approaches for coastal communities, spatial innovation, and sustainability in coastal areas.
The specific goals of the project are:
- Inform target groups about the significance of smart and creative coastal development solutions in boosting spatial, social, and economic resilience.
- Spread knowledge about new digital innovations in coastal and spatial development.
- Identify best practices in coastal with new and unconventional methods.
- Encourage and convince regional decision makers in coastal areas to support smart and creative methods.
In contemporary coastal development, two policy practices can be discerned: (1) first come, first served. With which short-term ambitions leave long-term opportunities unused. (2) Long-term coastal safety prevails, with which spatial and economic opportunities do not develop in the short term. In view of the increasing impact of sea level rise, this practice requires a change in the thinking and tactics focused to develop the coast in a more sustainable, inclusive and future-proof way. Partly because, in addition to rising sea levels, salinization, drought and heavy rainfall are also consequences of climate change that severely affect coastal regions.
The COASTCRAFT project brings together local and regional authorities and coastal agencies on 5 European seas. They work together to develop more creative and smarter tactics for coastal development.
UBBSLA, as partner, will be focusing on working on the Policy Instrument – Maritime Spatial Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2035.
Target group:
- Staff from local/regional/national authorities and coastal organizations: (landscape)architects, civil engineers, urban planners
- Decision makers in spatial planning in all coastal regions
- Business Community: SMEs in the coastal zone, investors, creative artists, real estate developers, contractors
- General Public: residents of the participating regions
- Education: students and teachers in applied and higher education in the regions in civil engineering, spatial planning and communication