Forth workshop on Sustainable Development in Lake Areas: Empowering Local Initiatives and Civil Society

The workshops are meant to empower civil society actors to contribute to participatory sustainable development, and shall yield recommendations to local and EU governments about more participatory ways to implement environmental policies.

Goals and Objectives:

The workshops are organised in the framework of the project “Sustainable Development in Lake Areas”, which is supported by Fondation de France.

The general objective of the project is to support initiatives in sustainable development by exchange on good practice of participatory implementation and local sustainable development. The exchange shall lead to capacity building of private actors, NGOs and local governments in environmentally sensitive areas.

The thematic workshops will contribute to the development of local democracy and to a more participative management of environmental resources, in order to fill the gap between European citizens and their institutions, and also via feed-back to decision makers to contribute to environmental and rural policies that better meet peoples’ need for participation.

The project’s objectives are:

- to exchange experiences about different participatory implementation strategies of Nature

2000 and Water Framework Directive (WFD) in concerned rural areas

- to give local actors and authorities better access to practical knowledge about sustainable

Nature 2000 and WFD implementation strategies via exchange with successful projects

- to develop political proposals to regional, state and EU governments to use the existing

participatory options that are provided from EU-side in order to support sustainable development

in rural areas.

The scientific partnership with University of Marburg / Germany assures that the project integrates political knowledge of integrated water body management.

The specific objectives of the Workshop in Nestos Delta are:

· To further exchange experiences about different participatory implementation strategies by the participating partners

· To strengthen the relations between the organisations and partners of the first 3 workshops, leading to common projects on conservation and sustainable development

· To boost the sustainable development process in the Nestos National Park through publicizing the procedures and results of this workshop.

Forum Synergies and Global Nature Fund cordially invite you to a series of five workshops on participatory implementation strategies of environmental policies in lake areas, taking place in Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Greece and France.
The workshops are meant to empower civil society actors to contribute to participatory sustainable development, and shall yield recommendations to local and EU governments about more participatory ways to implement environmental policies.
Goals and Objectives:The workshops are organised in the framework of the project “Sustainable Development in Lake Areas”, which is supported by Fondation de France.
The general objective of the project is to support initiatives in sustainable development by exchange on good practice of participatory implementation and local sustainable development. The exchange shall lead to capacity building of private actors, NGOs and local governments in environmentally sensitive areas.
The thematic workshops will contribute to the development of local democracy and to a more participative management of environmental resources, in order to fill the gap between European citizens and their institutions, and also via feed-back to decision makers to contribute to environmental and rural policies that better meet peoples’ need for participation.
The project’s objectives are:
- to exchange experiences about different participatory implementation strategies of Nature2000 and Water Framework Directive (WFD) in concerned rural areas- to give local actors and authorities better access to practical knowledge about sustainableNature 2000 and WFD implementation strategies via exchange with successful projects- to develop political proposals to regional, state and EU governments to use the existingparticipatory options that are provided from EU-side in order to support sustainable developmentin rural areas.
The scientific partnership with University of Marburg / Germany assures that the project integrates political knowledge of integrated water body management.
The specific objectives of the Workshop in Nestos Delta are:
· To further exchange experiences about different participatory implementation strategies by the participating partners· To strengthen the relations between the organisations and partners of the first 3 workshops, leading to common projects on conservation and sustainable development· To boost the sustainable development process in the Nestos National Park through publicizing the procedures and results of this workshop.

Registration deadline is the 6th of September but due to a limited number of participants we encourage your early decision.

Thematically, at this workshop, we will

- continue our exchange of experiences about stakeholder participation in WFD and Nature2000 implementation

- see some exciting examples of local cooperation in conservation issues organized by a very engaged NGO

- continue our work on project applications for practical exchange activities in Environmental Education, Rural/Eco Tourism and Habitat Management that we started in Slovenia, with the goal to end up with concrete proposals.

Contact information	Katja Tolkachyova, Project coordination, Global Nature Fund (email: lakeproject@forum-synergies.eu ; tolkachyova@globalnature.org)
Event type	n/a
File link	n/a
File link copy	Conference Programme Nestos Delta_Greece.pdf (PDF, 133 Kb)
Source	Global Nature Fund - International Foundation for Environment and Nature (Germany)
Subject(s)	HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , NATURAL MEDIUM , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER QUALITY
Relation	http://www.semide.net/initiatives/dce
Geographical coverage	Greece,
Address	Keramoti, Nestos Delta
Organizer	Forum Synergies together with Global Nature Fund. Due to support by Fondation de France there is no participation fee, and participants that otherwise can not attend may be granted some support for their travel costs.
Period	[22/09/2010 - 26/09/2010]
Status	Confirmed
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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