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Overview of TRITON project
1. OVERVIEW OF TRITON PROJECT
The Apulian and Western Greece coastlines are facing significant erosion impacts due to natural causes (extended fetches, stormy winds, high waves and strong currents) and man-induced causes (such as urban expansion, touristic development and single-purpose coastal and/or watershed infrastructures).
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The Triton (Development of management Tools and diRectives for immediate protection of bIodiversity in coasTal areas affected by sea erOsion and establishment of appropriate eNvironmental control systems) project, funded by the EU Cooperation Programme Interreg V-A GreeceItaly (EL-IT) 2014-2020 and stated on 16/04/2018, has the following objectives:
IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE of public administrations and stakeholders involved in coastal management;
CREATE A NETWORK between public administrations, technicians and research centers;
IMPROVE COOPERATION on territorial planning tools between public authorities and experts from Western Greece and Apulia;
IDENTIFY COMMON METHODOLOGIES between Apulia and Western Greece for monitoring and mapping risk indicators to be included in planning and investment policies for the medium and long term.
The main results of the project are:
Enhanced awareness
and involvement in coastline management and coastal erosion issues for public and private entities and citizens, through the project public events, workshops, videoclips and social media;
Networking and improved dialogue
between the authorities and experts of Greece and Italy during the project’s cycle and beyond, thus enabling better adjustment of the legal and spatial planning instruments, through a crossborder event and an Italian-Greek summer school;
Capacity building and training
of public administration staff as well as of stakeholders involved in coastal management, mainly through two cycles
of traning days;
A long-term contribution
to a better protection of the coastline from erosion thought education, new tools and best practices sharing, pilot projects analysis, the web platform and studies.
