At Ecomondo 2025, DCC-CR contributed to institutional debates on coastal resilience, climate adaptation and sustainable tourism, presenting innovative, science-based solutions for maritime regions.
Published on 05 November 2025 | Events
On November 5th 2025, the Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience participated in Ecomondo, contributing as a speaker to the roundtable “Coastal regeneration as a key factor for climate change adaptation”.
The event was organised by the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Ecomondo Scientific and Technical Committee, the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security, ISPRA, the National Research Group on Coastal Areas (GNRaC), and the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR).
The roundtable provided an important opportunity for dialogue between the scientific community and institutions on coastal resilience, climate adaptation strategies and the role of integrated governance frameworks in addressing climate-related risks in coastal areas.
Within the Ecomondo programme, DCC-CR also contributed directly to the debate on the relationship between coastal management and tourism development, taking part as a speaker in the second TALK “Coast and Tourism 2.0”, hosted at the BLUE-ER stand of ART-ER, upon invitation from ART-ER.
The intervention was framed within the BLUE ECOSYSTEM project and the related Call for Solutions, where DCC-CR presented innovative approaches addressing emerging challenges in coastal and tourism systems.
On this occasion, DCC-CR presented the project “Smart Coast – Citizen Science in support of early warning systems and training for coastal resilience”, developed in collaboration with CMCC, Rimini Blue Lab, CAST, and Clust-ER Turismo. The project responds to Challenge 3 of the thematic area “Coast and Tourism 2.0”, aiming to improve the integration of scientific knowledge into early warning, forecasting and monitoring systems for marine and coastal hazards.
The presentation highlighted the educational and participatory dimension of the Smart Coast project, including activities such as PCTO courses on climate and oceanography for secondary schools, and its objective to expand a network of citizen science stations along the Emilia-Romagna coast. These stations are designed to complement existing monitoring infrastructures managed by ARPAE, and are developed in collaboration with schools, tourism operators, beach facilities, hotels, fishers and nautical operators, who are actively trained and involved in data collection and interpretation.
The project pursues a dual objective: on the one hand, strengthening early warning systems and predictive capacity for extreme marine events; on the other, fostering a culture of prevention and coastal resilience based on shared knowledge and cooperation between schools, research institutions, businesses and local communities.
As part of the initiatives linked to Ecomondo 2025, Prof. Nadia Pinardi, Director of DCC-CR, also contributed to the drafting of the “Manifesto to Strengthen Climate Resilience and Adaptation in Maritime Regions”.
The Manifesto was developed through a collaborative process involving institutions, research centres and European networks, with the aim of promoting integrated approaches to coastal management and reinforcing climate adaptation policies across maritime regions.
DCC-CR’s contribution focused on providing scientific support to the content of the Manifesto, in coherence with the Centre’s activities on coastal resilience and international cooperation, further reinforcing the role of science–policy dialogue in advancing effective and sustainable adaptation strategies.