On 14 March 2025 in Nice (France), take part in a collaborative workshop to amplify the voice of Mediterranean communities in addressing coastal risk challenges. Contribute to a global initiative in preparation for the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3).
Rising sea levels, combined with land subsidence and erosion, are creating inevitable major impacts on some coastal areas, some of which may become uninhabitable. The ability of populations to adapt will depend on short- and long-term public action and on the quality of the dialogue with local communities.
Mediterranean citizens, territorial planners, coastal risk management experts, local stakeholders, researchers, students in the fields of science, urban planning or sustainable development, civil society representatives, we warmly invite you to join us!
The workshop will formulate concrete recommendations to deliver a joint message, “The Voice of the Mediterranean“, a series of priorities for the future of the Mediterranean, which will be presented at the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3).
Workshop Topics
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- Assessing high-risk areas: understanding and faciliting the transition
The goal is to better identify the territories most exposed to coastal changes through projection methods and data management. Foster constructive dialogue between scientists, local authorities, and citizens, and ensure wide dissemination through effective mediation strategies.
- Assessing high-risk areas: understanding and faciliting the transition
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- Strategies: managing and designing the recomposition
How to prepare a socially equitable transition through innovative public actions in land management, funding, and support for impacted communities? How to then act, considering urban projects for territorial recomposition and alternative urban development perspectives?
- Strategies: managing and designing the recomposition
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- A strategy for priority projects
The aim is to explore the effective implementation of projects and the value of experimental approaches (floating cities, eco-territories, nature-based solutions, etc.) to create sustainable and high-quality re-territorialisation processes.
- A strategy for priority projects
AVITEM is contributing to prepare the Mediterranean dimension of this coalition, coordinating a dynamic co-construction and exchange process involving MedECC and a network of expert partners: Plan Bleu, the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC), the Institute for Research and Développement (IRD), the Intermediterranean Commission (CIM-CRPM), the four schools of architecture involved in the Mélimed project, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egyptian National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, the French Development Agency (AFD), MedCities, the Ocean & Climate Platform. With the support of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region and the City of Nice.
