MOVE

The MOVE pilot project intends to involve policy makers, researchers and the civil society in the development of methodologies for mapping and assessing the state of ecosystems and their services in Outermost Regions (ORs) and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). A coordinated and synergistic approach is advocated to turn the geographical, political and knowledge base fragmentation of these entities into assets, pooling resources and building robust participatory tools.

MOVE has the collaboration of an expert panel that will contribute to the technical and scientific validation of the results:

• Ciprian Ionescu (WWF France, France)
• Evangelia (Valia) Drakou (Universidade de Twente, the Netherlands)
• Mario V Balzan (Institute of Applied Sciences, Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, Malta)
• Ricardo Serrão Santos (permanent member of the European Parliament’s Committees on Fisheries and Agriculture and Rural Development, now Minister of the Sea of Portugal)

To promote and facilitate the interaction between local stakeholders involved in the case studies and other interested participants, MOVE is counting on an online Discussion Forum.