The LiCCo Project and it’srole in delivering local,national and internationalcoastal change messages
Exe Estuary Winter Forum – 17th February 2015
What is “LiCCo”?
Living with a Changing Coast was started in late 2011 following an initiativebetween the EA and the Conservatoire du Littoral
Designed to develop and share knowledge and best practice inunderstanding and communicating coastal change, both in key UKorganisations, and across the channel
The Environment Agency has been the Lead Partner, responsiblefordelivery and management of the project in the UK and France
It is an EU match-funded (ERDF), dual-nationality, multi-partner projectbased on study sites in south west UK and northern France.
Project Partners – who, and why?
French partners (academic and NGO) selected for theirexpertise in the disciplines of Socio-economics, Benthicspecies, Ecology and Coastal Management.
UK Partners (government and NGO) selected for theirwider inputs to coastal management in the study sitesand expertise in stakeholder engagement
Increased engagement within UK FCRM Strategies in the Exe Estuary andPoole Harbour
Promotion of Shoreline Management Plan philosophy in France – taken to acentral Government level
Future Scenario Planning to prepare coastal communities and visitors forchange
Dissemination and sharing of Stakeholder Engagement Practice based onproject experience and capitalising on that of other projects past andpresent
Build Networks to enhance resilience and encourage adaptation withincoastal communities and in the larger context of the channel area
Key Goals
Key Deliverables
Education Package specifically designed for UK Key Stage 1-3 using realexamples around the Exe estuary and Poole Harbour
Engagement Toolkit to help partner organisations and other interestedparties (including affected communities) work together to find pragmaticoptions to the affects of change
“Two Countries, One Sea” report to demonstrate the similarities between theFrench and UK channel coastlines, and to evaluate each other’s differingapproaches to a common problem
Suite of leaflets, newsletters and information boards provided tocommunities on the Exe and around Poole Harbour regarding changes thatmay be coming, and seeking to help people become involved
Householder guides for Swanage and Studland (Dorset) to help residentsunderstand the change that their Shoreline Management Plan policy, or theSLR predictions may bring
State of the Exe Report co-funded by LiCCo, a fundamental document forstakeholders at all levels on the Exe estuary
Website – licco.eu – a fully comprehensive record of our activities, as well asa database of information produced and collated during the project.Funded through to 2020 to optimise it’s usefulness
Key Deliverables
The Numbers
Project Duration – 3 years
Project Budget – €5.6m / £4.6m
(Of which ERDF – €2.8m / £2.3m)
Project Staff- 17 (Full Time in UK and France)
Study Sites – 7 in total
(2 in UK, 5 in France)
Get involved! Help the project partners disseminate their findings andproducts/tools
Imagine change both in professional approaches to managing change,and in those of communities
Think local – and global! Why limit our search for knowledge?
Interreg V – 5 year programme of funding now seeking project ideas andpartners
Where next?
