"Context:The shellfishing activity is very important for social, cultural and economic reasons, with a strong impact in the coastal zones. However, this activity is usually done in important and sensitive biological and environmental zones, most of them being protected areas. Shellfishing activity may have envoronmental impact in these ecosystems. Achieving a balance between the environment, society and economy, it is considered essential to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations. Therefore, there is a need to implement environmental management plans for this activity. Objectives:The ECOFILM project has developed training materials to qualify professionals to develop their activities with a sustainable methodology. The main goal of the project has been to develop an audiovisual training tool to promote the sustainable shellfishing harvesting on foot through the provision, advice and training of the sector in the transverse skills.This training program has been produced for workers of the shellfishing harvesting on foot, professional Associations of the shellfishing harvesting on foot, Cooperatives Public and Private training centers, NGOs and authorities and public organisms in environmental matters.Partners:The consortium is composed by entities with different roles:-Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (LPN) – Portugal-FUNDACIÓN PARA LA PESCA Y MARISQUEO (FUNDAMAR) – Spain-Cooperative M.A.R.E. SOC. COOP – Italy-The University Recep Tayyip Erdogan Universitesi – Turkey-SGS Tecnos (Spain)The project has produced as a result 3 main deliverables:The report ""PROCEDURE FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ASSOCIATED WITH SHELLFISHING HARVESTING ON FOOT ACTIVITIES AND PREVENTION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS”, available in 5 languages in the Website of the projectThe Training program EcoFilm: AUDIOVIDUAL AND EUROPEAN TRAINING TOOL FOR THE ECOLOGICAL AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE SHELLFISHING HARVESTING ON FOOT, done in a a set of 5 videos translated to 5 languages and available on the project websiteAnd the EcoFilm training program in pdf format, available in 5 languages in the project website. Finally, the EcoFilm program will provide the following long-term benefitss:• The standardization of training for this sector at European level has been increased.• A better knowledge of the national regulations regarding shellfshing• Improvement of workers mobility among different countries• Improvement of access to better learning systems (e-learning), and innovative training materials• Promotion of linguistic diversity in the sector, they can access the same content in 5 languages"

"Nowadays marine and maritime sectors are experiencing difficulties in finding their own way of sustainability and development. Blue Economy represents roughly 5.4M jobs in the EU and generates a gross added value of almost €500B a year. Looking to 2030, the blue growth will outperform the EU economy both in terms of added-value and employment. The EU has made clear that it should not miss this opportunity, also integrating fishery and aquaculture activities with other elements of the coastal economy. As underlined by the 2016 Annual Economic Report on the EU Fishing Fleet, by others, sustainable fishing methods are experiencing a strong decline in job rates (only for the regions involved in this project: -21% less in the last 7 years) as well as income. Innovative solutions to recover these jobs, to create new ones and to develop new skills and qualifications are needed. FIT4BLUE project addresses the needs of different target groups: a) the needs of adult trainers/mentors and costal economy organisations for further professionalization and effective training programs able to enhance in the young people/project holders/ fishermen an entrepreneurial spirit and to develop new entrepreneurial initiative in the maritime sectorsb) the needs of young adults/workers linked to the coastal economy ( fishermen/shellfish farmers, sons or relatives of fishermen/shellfish farmers, students,..) for effective training programs to develop their entrepreneurial skills, notably in the maritime sectors (fisheries and aquaculture); the needs of young adults belonging to marginalized/underrepresented groups for a better social and economic inclusion thanks to entrepreneurship and self-employment in the maritime sectorc)The need of the other stakeholders in the VET and maritime fields to improve professionalization of workers and move to a qualitative exploitation through complementary activities with a strong added valueThe consortium composed by 6 institutions from France, Italy, Greece and Spain and having in common their strong links with the maritime sector and their experience in education and training put together their competences to develop :a) E-course for trainers/mentors to support young adults developing new enterprises in the maritime sector, as well as to support fishermen for diversification and to preserve coastal cultural heritage and “know-how""; b) E-course for low-skilled/low-qualified young adults/workers proposing new and innovative educational paths of entrepreneurship in the Blue Economy c) Open access web platform through which users can benefit from learning in an autonomous way. It will host the e-courses and will present a benchmark of new processes and marketing techniques to exploit new opportunities in the field of Blue Economy. The aim is to foster the possibilities of young adults/workers linked with coastal economy into a now saturated world such as fisheries, which is now under severe crisis, and that, in order to survive, it is increasingly focusing on diversification of activities. It will boost new options of tourism against the overcrowded maritime areas which is a new challenge for tourism and will be able to empower some historical fishing areas."

FARCLIMATE will address the critical challenges of developing and expanding climate-resilient measures, making them available and understandable to everyone, while also paying special attention to the social, political and economic barriers that are commonly found. FARCLIMATE actions will be implemented in at least 20 regions and communities in Europe, i.e., case studies where we will address transformative solutions on the path to climate resilience. In order to achieve such a great challenge, FARCLIMATE has set the following work program: 1) Initial work on engaging with all relevant stakeholders in each region, setting governance management mechanism; 2) Establishment of living labs to perform co-creation, testing, experimenting and scaling-up innovative activities in real-life environments; 3) A deep research of the main value chains, of the socioeconomic and environmental characteristics and of the existing economic sectors, through indicators to be monitored, of all investigated regions and communities; 4) Establishment of the transversal actions to be performed in all case studies: tailor-made training activities for communities empowerment, targeting different types of stakeholders and based among climate change and related hazards and risks; 5) The implementation of technical but also socially feasible innovative solutions in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries economic sectors, with specific solutions to increase their capacity to adapt to climate change impacts on their fields. Nature-based solutions will be the guiding thread in FARCLIMATE innovative actions; 6) The creation of different tools to spread the obtained learnings, found barriers, and successful results, among others, during FARCLIMATE, such as policy recommendations, guidelines, management plans and the innovative Transformation Hub.