COASTAL Collaborative Land-Sea Integration Platform

The objective of the COASTAL project is to improve the coastal-rural synergies in strategic business and policy decision-making and collaboration between coastal and rural actors. This is achieved by developing, demonstrating, and applying a generic toolset and performance indicators by combining a multi-actor approach with system dynamic modelling. This allows the project to understand the interactions with market, demographic, environmental, and climate forecasts, and quantify the positive and negative externalities.

The COASTAL combines local knowledge and scientific expertise in a co-creation process and engages actors and stakeholders at all levels to improve the coastal-rural interdependence and collaboration by identifying problems and setting up evidence-based business roadmaps and policy solutions, focusing on economic growth marine spatial planning, and environmental protection.

The project contributes to integrated coastal-rural planning in the case study regions, like the Baltic Sea and develops durable, online, and open-access platform for knowledge exchange about coastal-rural synergy with concrete examples and tools supporting land-sea collaboration.