Second peer review visit, 1st day
On the 4th of June the partnership gathered in Miercurea Ciuc (Romania) for the second peer review meeting, whose topic was “Innovative financing schemes”.
All the main activities were divided into 3 days with a specific objective: the first day was dedicated to the study visits, the second one to the masterclass and stakeholder workshop, while the last day was mainly a thematic one focusing on the roadmap to policy improvement activities and the communication ones.
The first study visit was in Ghimeș to provide an example of citizen participation, by showing the partnership, how the community (especially young people) is involved in the management and maintenance of meadows using the traditional method of hand mowing.
Subsequently, “A Pilot Agri-Environment Scheme for the Tarnava Mare and Pogány Havas Regions” good practice was presented, whose work is based on measures that farmers need to follow in order to achieve an improvement in biodiversity output, according to which, they are provided with payments that are measured by biodiversity indicators, such as the presence of a certain number of indicator plant species.
After the visit to the Hășmaș National Park, it was the turn of “Trees for life”, a call to action to share ongoing projects and new commitments in reforestation and the greening of urban areas, and the “Transylmagica project” that plants tree native species by using mainly the income got from the sellings of souvenirs, involving so the customers in the planting process.
