Project summary
CIBioGo aims to boost citizen participation in biodiversity governance, safeguard protected areas, strengthen ecosystem services, and facilitate environmentally friendly territorial development strategies.
To do so, it is necessary to improve the involvement and cooperation of stakeholders and citizens and to overcome the lack of awareness regarding the value of biodiversity and its ecosystem services.
Our Partnership
Lead Partner:
- Province of Potenza, (Italy)
Partners:
- Harghita County Council, (Romania)
- Commonwealth of L’Horta Sud, (Spain)
- Vidzeme Planning Region, (Latvia)
- Slovenia Forest Service, (Slovenia)
- Service of Wallonia – Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment (Directorate of Nature and Water), (Belgium)
- BURST Nonprofit Limited Liability Company, (Hungary) / Advisory Partner
CIBioGo enlargement, Discovery Partners (DP):
- Center for research and policy making CRPM Skopje, (North Macedonia)
- Cantonal administration for civil protection Middle Bosnia Canton/Central Bosnia Canton, (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Each partner, supported by the AP, embarks on an interregional learning process aimed at improving our policy instruments for the collaborative and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
The backbone of our learning process is provided by an exchange of good practices, a sequence of interregional peer review visits accompanied by regional level stakeholder exchange and capacity building sessions to support the adaptation of GPs, the embeddedness of the policy improvement process and the achievement of individual as well as organizational learning.
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What will this project change
Our six partners seek to implement effective tools and innovative methods of participatory governance of biodiversity in their regional and local policy instruments.
We want to overcome the lack of awareness and apathy among citizens in biodiversity governance and encourage them to take care of nature with its neglected environment.