POSEIDONE – Promotion of green and blue infrastructure for new environmental development
Interreg VI-A Italia-Slovenia 2021-2027- ITA-SI0400091
Duration: 1. 1. 2023–1. 1. 2026
Project’s budget: 4.375.000,00 EUR
Participating Institute at ZRS Koper: Institute for Oliveculture and Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies
Contact person: dr. Liliana Vižintin
Partners’ organizations:
- VeGAL – GAL Venezia Orientale, Italy, LEAD PARTNER
- Regione del Veneto, Italy
- Consorzio di Bonifica Veneto Orientale, Italy
- CORILA – Consorzio per il coordinamento delle ricerche inerenti al sistema lagunare di Venezia, Italy
- Comune di Staranzano – Organo Gestore Riserva Naturale Foce Isonzo, Italy
- Fondazione WWF Italia
- Regionalni razvojni center Koper, Slovenia
- Public Institute Landscape Park Strunjan, Slovenia
- DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia
- Community of Ankaran – Comune Ancarano, Slovenia
- Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia, Kmetijsko gozdarski zavod Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Project Summary: The POSEIDONE project is aimed at the functional area of the northern Adriatic Sea, from the city of Chioggia (Italy) to the Slovenian coast. The general goal of the project is the promotion of local development by favoring the protection of nature and biodiversity, the development of green and blue infrastructures in Natura 2000 sites, the reduction of tourist pressure on natural parks or natural areas, the improvement of the landscape by the promotion of biodiversity in agriculture, the protection of native species and the dissemination of knowledge.