The event held on the island of Gran Canaria was attended by the highest level of experts in the islands’ blue economy. They stressed the importance of the fight against climate change in the territory and of cooperation between public authorities, research and society. The impacts detected in the Canary Islands were: Increase in droughts […]

SOCLIMPACT held the local working group on the island of the Azores last September 27, 2018, where its main stakeholders met to share knowledge and look for possible ways of collaboration, as well as taking advantage of the project. SOCLIMPACT presented the main objectives and risks for each sector of the blue economy. The main […]

On September 25th and on September 27th took place the Soclimpact Local Working Groups of the West Indies – respectively in Guadeloupe and Martinique – organised by Université des Antilles. The event looked for the implication of the main stakeholders to define the different impact chains through their opinion. Each workshop had two rounds. The first […]

Last 24th of September, SOCLIMPACT project celebrated its seventh Local Working Group in Madeira Island. The event was split into two parts. In the first one, the participants visited the Aquaculture Center of Calheta where Fabiola Pereira from AREAM explained the possibility to create synergies and develop a project regarding the incorporation of solar PV […]

Last 20th of September, SOCLIMPACT held the first Local Working Group for Sardinia. The meeting was attended by many high-level representatives of the Regional Government (Environment, Planning, Civil Protection and Tourism Divisions) joint to a multidisciplinary group of researchers from UNICA ( University of Cagliari), the Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Environment Protection Agency, among other institutions in […]

Last Thursday, 20th September SOCLIMPACT project celebrated its sixth local working group in Malta. Essential Blue Economy sectors analyzed the main issues of Climate Change: The priority hazards and impacts, the data source available, the experience regarding Climate Change and the cases study that every sector would like to add in SOCLIMPAC project. The SOCLIMPACT partner introduced the official opening […]

The Local Working Group in Fehmarn met for the first time on 10th of September 2018 in the island’s capital Burg. The event was hosted by the municipally of the island. It was a small but high-level group of stakeholders. During the meeting, participants focused on listing the problems found. The discussion was influenced by […]

The local working group held on July 16th in Crete was attended by the most critical stakeholders of the blue economy of the island who had the opportunity to clarify doubts, discuss problems on climate impacts and draw up a plan to create synergies and take advantage of the studies of the SOCLIMPACT project. The Vice-Governor […]