INTERREG III B Project
PlanCoast

Objectives

• Start developing and implementing the tools and procedures for the brand new discipline of Maritime Spatial Planning in each participating country. These tools should comply to international standards and at the same time reflect the local and regional needs.
• Enhance the implementation of the national ICZM Strategies by demonstrating the benefits and role of Spatial Planning in ICZM within a number of selected pilot projects.
• Support the increased use of modern geographical information systems (GIS) within ICZM for data collection, editing and exchange, as well as create GIS databases of internationally comparable data as a basis for transnational planning.
• PlanCoast pilot projects will form the basis for recommendations on local and national level on how to implement, adapt and further develop the current ICZM strategies within each partner country in the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Sea regions.
• PlanCoast conferences, working groups, trainings and transnational studies will support an exchange of experience among organizations and authorities responsible for spatial planning in the partner countries.

Partner

PlanCoast Partners represent 16 institutions and organisations responsible for coastal planning in 11 countries of the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Sea Region.

• Germany
  • Ministry of Transport, Building and Regional Development Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development
• Poland
  • Maritime Office, Gdynia
  • Regional Spatial Planning Office, Pomorskie Voivodship
• Albania
  • ECAT Tirana
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Neretva Cantonal Ministry of Physical Planning
• Croatia
  • Priority Actions Programme⁄Regional Activity Centre PAP⁄RAC
• Italy
  • Emilia–Romagna Region, DG Environment
  • Ancona Municipality
• Montenegro
  • Public Enterprise for Coastal Zone Management
• Slovenia
  • Regional Development Centre, Koper
• Bulgaria
  • District Administration Centre, Varna
  • Black Sea NGO Network
• Romania
  • National Institute for Marine Research and Development, "Grigore Antipa"
  • National Institute for Research and Development "Urbanproiect"
• Ukraine
  • Ukraine Scientific Center of Ecology of Sea (UkrSCES)

Cadses

PlanCoast is part-financed by the European Union (ERDF) within the INTERREG IIIB CADSES Neighbourhood Programme. The German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs supports the project financially and politically by the "Federal Programme for Transnational Cooperation".

For further information see the pages of the project at:
www.plancoast.eu