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CEETO Project end - Outputs and Dissemination Events

The month of May 2020, as final month of the CEETO Project, was particularly fruitful from both the production of outputs and the dissemination of their results.

In addition to the Final Conference (of which you can find all the material in the dedicated section of the Platform link), the 8th of May saw the presentation of a Webinar (addressed to policy makers and Protected Areas management bodies) organized by Europarc. During the Webinar, in addition to a quick escursus on the objectives and outputs of the CEETO project and some examples of the Pilot Actions on Sustainable Tourism, implemented by Ente Parchi Emilia Centrale - Regione Emilia Romagna (Italy) and Landscape Park of Struniano (Slovenia), two of the main outputs of the Project were presented:  The Guidelines for Policy Makers (produced by RRC Koper) and the Manual for PA Managers (produced by WWF Adria).

To review the event presentations and the video of the event (in English), this is the link.

To access the last project documents, you can go to the relevant pages of the official website:

• Guidelines for Policy Makers;
• Manual for PA Managers;
• Guidelines for PA Managers to work with Tour Operators;

or go to the "Documents" section of the platform - CEETO Documents => Sustainable Tourism => How To.

Further, after the Final Conference, several dissemination events were organised in each of the 5 local languages of the project partners. These events were also rich in content, with contributions from outside the CEETO Project and both technical and institutional interventions.

Some of these events were recorded and can be attended at any time:

- Webinar in ITALIAN;

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  The Appennino Tosco-Emiliano MaB Reserve presents the 70 Activities of the new Action Plan.

The Biosphere Reserve MaB Appennino Tosco-Emiliano will present tomorrow, 19th February 2020, at the University of Parma, the new Action Plan for the sustainable development of the territory of the MaB.

The Action Plan pursues sustainable development objectives, both those specific to the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and the general ones indicated by the international community (17 UN Sustainable Development Goals - Agenda 2030) and recalled by the Lima Plan (March 2016) of the UNESCO MaB Programme.

The Action Plan involves all 34 Municipalities in the territory of the MaB (divided between the Regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna and in particular between the Provinces of Reggio Emilia, Parma, Modena, Lucca and Massa) and is composed of 70 Actions, grouped according to the following areas of intervention: Education, Research & Development, Cultural Heritage, Environment, Rurality, Tourism, Communication, Involvement.

The complete list of the forms can be consulted at: http://www.mabappennino.it/pdf/ActionPlan_RBAppenninoToscoEmiliano.pdf

Within the field of tourism development, some of the activities provided for in the Action Plan originate from the ECST (European Charter of Sustainable Tourism) and the CEETO Project, developed in recent years by the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines National Park Authority in collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna Region.

Fausto Giovanelli, President of the National Park and coordinator of MaB, will talk about the Action Plan of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines Biosphere Reserve and its 70 projects, while the Park Director, Giuseppe Vignali, will deal with the theme of the future of the Reserve. The meeting will conclude with the presentation of the new 'I Care Appennino' awards assigned to those realities, associations and companies that realize or support projects and initiatives whose aim is to take care of the territory, biodiversity and communities.

The official MaB magazine "Apenninus" (only in Italian language), dedicates to the event the special n°20/2020, available at the following link: http://db.parks.it/news/allegati/VRATEnov58671-all1.pdf  

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MaB Delta del Po – Manuale Didattico per Docenti e rete locale degli InfoPoint Turistici

Il Parco Regionale Delta Po Emilia Romagna), in collaborazione con numerosi altri Enti ed Associazioni, nell’ambito delle attività di promozione della MaB BiosferaDeltaPo e del Progetto: “Percorsi di educazione ambientale per avviare percorsi di apprendimento sul paesaggio e biodiversità” (MISURA 19 del PSR 2014-2020 Regione Emilia-Romagna. CUP:H59D1700080002) – Tema: “Paesaggio e Biodiversità”, ha realizzato un Manuale per Insegnanti degli alunni delle scuole primarie di secondo grado e secondarie.

Il manuale, attualmente solo in lingua italiana, è consultabile al sito: https://mab.biodiversissimo.org/

Oltre a descrivere il Programma MaB UNESCO ed i concetti di Biodiversità, con particolare riguardo a quella presente nel territorio del Delta, il manuale approfondisce anche gli aspetti legati al Turismo, nell’ambito dell’Agenda Mondiale 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (obiettivi 8.9, 12.b e 14.7), e propone, fra gli altri, il Manuale degli operatori turistici della MaB (scaricabile qua sotto).

Sul versante Veneto della MaB, si segnala un’altra iniziativa degna di nota: L’Ente Parco Regionale Veneto del Delta del Po, in qualità di responsabile e coordinatore dell’Organizzazione di Gestione della Destinazione turistica (OGD), si è fatto promotore di un’importante iniziativa che intende coinvolgere tutti gli attori del territorio: si tratta della costruzione di una rete territoriale di Info-Point turistici che possano capillarmente diffondere la cultura dell’accoglienza e trasmettere i valori culturali e ambientali del territorio. In questo modo il Parco, già impegnato nel valorizzare e promuovere il territorio attraverso diversi progetti come “#MYDELTASLOW”, intende rafforzare le relazioni con il tessuto economico del Delta, mettendo a disposizione degli operatori nuove competenze e offrendo ai turisti una rete di supporto efficace e capillare.

La rete locale di Info-Point turistici potrà essere costituita da tutti quei soggetti che rientrano nei 24 comuni del territorio della OGD “Po e suo Delta”. Fra questi si elencano: i titolari di strutture recettive (hotel, B&B, campeggi, locazioni turistiche, ecc.), ristoranti, agriturismi, bar, cantine, aziende agricole e altri luoghi organizzati per la degustazione dei prodotti enogastronomici, attrazioni turistiche e punti di interesse, biblioteche, musei, altri punti informativi gestiti dalle Pro-Loco e dalle Associazioni di volontariato. A questi potranno aggiungersi altri fornitori di servizi turistici (noleggiatori di auto e di biciclette, agenzie di viaggio, servizi nautici, ecc.) ed attività commerciali (negozi, edicole, distributori di carburante, ecc.).

L’adesione al progetto prevede la partecipazione a un corso di formazione di 16 ore che si svolgerà tra febbraio e marzo 2020, articolato in una serie di incontri con esperti di gestione turistica, ambiente e comunicazione. I partecipanti potranno, inoltre, integrare con altre 16 ore di corso di approfondimento destinato alle guide del progetto “Goletta Verde: a scuola di Mare e Biodiversità” per poter così arricchire il loro percorso formativo e avere un ruolo anche nelle attività di educazione ambientale promosse dal Parco insieme a Legambiente Onlus e Fondazione CaRiPaRo.

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Ente Parchi Emilia Centrale, ready for the ECST application

70 projects complete the dossier with which the Park Authority will present to Europe its application for the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in the Protected Areas of Central Emilia.

 

The final plenary forum (Rubiera - Modena - Italy - 04/12/2019) marked the end of the process started by Ente Parchi Emilia Centrale last April to obtain the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism (ECST), a certification recognised at continental level and supported by Europarc and Federparchi.

The idea of starting the application process started with the participation of the Management Authority in the European project CEETO, of which the Emilia-Romagna Region is the leading partner and within which the Park Authority has prepared, for some protected areas of its territory, a five-year Action Plan and implemented two Pilot Actions for the knowledge and a more sustainable management of tourism flows.

Central Emilia is the first "macro-area" of the Emilia-Romagna region to apply for certification for all its 8 protected areas located between the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia, which thus start, along with their territories, to obtain the important recognition and to be included among the destinations of excellence at European level.

In recent months, dozens of public and private stakeholders have taken part in the candidacy process, working in a vast territory that embraces very different environments and "kind of tourisms".

Municipal administrations, cultural and sports associations, entrepreneurs and tourism operators, promotion offices and destinations management organizations (DMOs), environmental and excursion guides, training and category bodies have been the protagonists of a proactive discussion both among themselves and with the Parks Authority. A step-by-step process that began with a shared analysis of the opportunities to be seized, useful for defining a common strategy and outlining concrete objectives to be achieved in the next five years, through an Action Plan (including those prepared within the framework of the CEETO Project), which includes no less than 70 initiatives and projects (for a total of about 12 million € of investment) carried out not only by the Managing Authority but also, and above all, by the subjects who participated in the process.

The final forum was the moment of approval (in the photo) and subscription of the actions that constitute the heart of the " application dossier ", already sent to the examination of the commission of Europarc.

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CEETO pilot actions in Emilia Centrale Parks

Lago Santo Modenese area, within the High Modenese Apennines Regional Park, and Salse di Nirano Nature Reserve are two pilot areas managed by the Emilia Centrale Parks Management Authority. Both areas are affected by a high tourist presence which, along with inadequate visitors´ behaviour, cause damage to natural values and overall experience of the protected area. Therefore, in Lago Santo Modenese area tourist flows were monitored via the number of sold parking tickets and questionnaires to define measures for better spatial and time distribution of tourists’ visits in the area. Also, sustainable traffic measures and raising knowledge and awareness about the value of the area were implemented. In Salse di Nirano area, to protect the Zone A (integral protection zone) of the Reserve, a Video Content Analysis (VCA) system was installed to detect the type of the use and threats the Reserve must face from the point of view of sustainable tourism planning. The video of the system can be seen here: https://youtu.be/6mbOOV_c0FI

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Facilitating sustainable alternatives in Appennino Tosco Emiliano National Park

The Appennino Tosco Emiliano National Park, UNESCO Man&Biosphere Reserve, represents the high mountain environment in the Emilia-Romagna Region with amazingly rich flora and fauna. The 2 pilot areas in the Park, the Pietra di Bismantova and the Lagdei plain, suffer overflow of tourists in spring and summer. The objective of the pilot action was to modify the tourists’ behaviours, extend the touristic season and offer sustainable tourism alternatives. The Park management monitored touristic flows using specific questionnaires, counting of visitors and a statistical survey on tourist visits. Public shuttle buses and payment schemes for parking areas were introduced to lower the pressure of visits. All of the data collected is used in the ECST process and in facilitating collaboration between stakeholders, as well as in creating a complete and multi-seasonal offer for new kinds of tourism in the area. Learn more from the attached summary of the CEETO pilot action in Appennino Tosco Emiliano National Park. 

A short movie about the Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6TGVAR2AHw&feature=youtu.be

 

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CEETO Project - Video-Monitoring of the Salse di Nirano Nature Reserve to monitor and prevent Zone A intrusions.

NEMOS (Nature rEserve MOnitoring System) VCA Experimental System

The Video Content Analysis (VCA) system, financed and tested through the Interreg CEETO Project, is composed of 3 cameras connected to an automatic data processing and extraction unit, using Artificial Intelligence algorithms. The system, in addition to monitoring (quantifying and qualifying) the real use of the area, also documents the main factors of threat for the Natural Reserve of Salse di Nirano, to support the design of possible protection measures.

As can be seen from the explanatory video (see link below), the system detects the transits of vehicles and people along the access road to Zone A of integral protection (zone particularly fragile by the geomorphological and phytological point of view) and acquires the largest number of data on episodes of physical barriers overcoming (by both people and animals), and consequent incorrect use and invasion of Zone A. The data, processed on site and sent remotely to the Park Authority and to the Municipality, will be used both to quantify the extent of the problem and to plan appropriate defence actions, both active (strengthening of physical barriers) and passive (through posters and environmental education).

The recorded images will also be useful for the study of the mud-volcanoes morphological evolution and will be integrated with the other ongoing monitoring by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

The innovative VCA system was installed in the Cà Rossa Visitor Centre area at the beginning of July 2019 and it’s acquiring data continuously from 5.30 AM to 9.30 PM. It will continue to work for at least one year after the end of CEETO Pilot Action (which ended at the end of September 2019).

 This is a demo Video: https://youtu.be/6mbOOV_c0FI.

This other one is a "real-life" acquisition result video collage and a preview of the web-managing interface for the DB collected data analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5qA_Ov-Mw.

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