CIBioGo - Project video and partners’ expectations

In order to raise awareness on biodiversity and the protection of protected areas, it has been considered essential to produce a short promotional video in which have been presented all the objectives that CIBioGo aims at completing.

For the period 2021- 2027, the European Commission has launched the Interreg Europe programme that is targeted at contributing to all the EU priorities.

Being biodiversity’s protection and preservation very urgent and critical issues in all the EU, the idea of CIBioGo is to influence regional/ territorial policies for an active citizen engagement in biodiversity governance.

Few of the most important objectives that CIBioGo aims at achieving are:

• Contributing to the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, that sets out to turn at least the 30% of land and seas into coherent and effectively managed protected areas.
• Integrating ecological corridors as a part of a real trans – European natural network.
• Safeguarding protected areas and strengthening ecosystem services.
• Facilitating the disclosure of environmentally – friendly territorial development strategies.

«Thanks to the exchange of experiences during the first part of the project, we expect to acquire a lot of knowledge and to put in place a better and a more inclusive governance so as to involve local citizens and stakeholders, as well as achieving a better strategy for the valorization and preservation of Biodiversity […] » Rosalia from Italy.

«We have high expectations from this project, which are mainly connected with experience exchange and lessons that we could learn from the other partners and their practices that they are implementing together with their stakeholders in their own countries. For the time being we are focusing on some specific things, such as citizen engagement in biodiversity protection and the management of nature trails […] » Ilze from Latvia.

«Our aim with this project is to learn from the other partners about ecosystem services, ecotourism and the involvement of citizens in the context of biodiversity […] » Emőke from Romania.

«We are extremely interested in taking part in this project since the topics of citizenship and the improvement of the governance are interesting to us, especially in the frame of the different policy tools that we want to implement in Wallonia. So, we hope that our participation in this project could be a success in terms of good practices exchange and network building […] » says Luc from Belgium.