{"id":1830,"date":"2025-06-12T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/?page_id=1830"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:32:02","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-195de60bb8a86c6c8f52a5301cfc8b96\"><strong>Adaptation Strategies to Scenarios of Accelerated Global Change Impacts in the Mediterranean Coastal Zone (ECOLEARN)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>1\/06\/2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 31\/05\/2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovac\u00f3n y Universidades, Proyectos de I+D+i)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>ECOLEARN builds on the knowledge gained by a previous research project (LiTOMED) in the Llobregat Delta of the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The aim of the present project is to contribute to global change knowledge and adaptation\u00a0policy by providing a participatory and context-based planning proposal. The project responds to the need to collectively discuss and learn about the MEANS, and, more importantly, the ENDS to be pursued by adaptation policy in the context of accelerated climate change impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Specific objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To understand practices of social-ecological and transformative learning for Global Change governance developed worldwide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To collectively build trans-scalar understanding of water conflicts (catchment, treatment and drainage) of the Llobregat river and delta as a social-ecological and transformative learning process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To co-produce knowledge with farmers on the processes and activities of the agrarian park and co-develop new productive models as a social-ecological and transformative learning process in the context of accelerated impacts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To co-identify alternatives to cope with existing and future morphodynamic\/hydraulic impacts (i.e. erosion, flooding,..) in the seafront of the delta del Llobregat and co-analyze vulnerability transfers among stakeholders in their potential implementation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collectively assess the potential of the Delta del Llobregat as a future \u201cLaboratory Region\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b49ec438ffe4d89eb7f4c2787ab36c62\"><strong>Toward Just, Ethical and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies (JUSTNORTH)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-24.png 850w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-24-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-24-768x271.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>1\/06\/2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 30\/11\/2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, H2020-EU.3.5.1. &#8211; Fighting and adapting to climate change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/justnorth.eu\/\">https:\/\/justnorth.eu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>JUSTNORTH is a European Project designed to explore the multitude of ethical systems that coexist in the Arctic, as a starting point to assess the viability of new economic activities in the region.&nbsp; For the millions of people who live both inside and outside the Arctic and are affected by these economic activities, decisions are made through utilitarian ethical principles:&nbsp; viability of an activity is based on profitability and technical feasibility, with little regard to questions of whether it is ethically right or wrong for the impacted human populations or the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global climate change has launched intense speculation on Arctic resources.\u00a0 Increasing geopolitical tensions among some of the Arctic states increases the importance of respecting different value systems while finding common values to help strengthen the links between Arctic and non-Arctic entities.\u00a0 Significant practice and policy gaps in existing Arctic economic activities have led to development that is unsustainable.\u00a0\u00a0 Through understanding current practices of development in the Arctic through the lens of 18 case studies, JUSTNORTH aims to develop conceptual frameworks, indices and a negotiation tool, for reconciling multiple ethics and value systems.\u00a0 These will provide a cornerstone for determining the viability of economic activities in the Arctic, as well as clarify policy, legal, and regulatory pathways for implementing ethic-based decision-making principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UAB role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interfase researchers are contributing to Work Package 3 on Justice in Scale and Distribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-afdadea79bd8dfd804c725461b26d7f9\"><strong>Efectes, capacitats i necessitats pol\u00edtiques de resposta a el canvi clim\u00e0tic a la costa mediterr\u00e0nia espanyola (LITOMED)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-25.png 850w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-25-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-25-768x271.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>01\/01\/2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 31\/12\/2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> Ministeri d&#8217;Economia i Competitivitat d&#8217;Espanya &#8211; Direcci\u00f3 General d&#8217;Investigaci\u00f3 Cient\u00edfica i T\u00e8cnica<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>El projecte t\u00e9 como a <em>objectiu principal<\/em> investigar els efectes i la capacitat de resposta al fenomen del canvi clim\u00e0tic d\u2019influ\u00e8ncia marina al Delta del Llobregat. En aquest sentit, s\u2019ha dut a terme un treball interdisciplinari de recerca participativa amb la coproducci\u00f3 del coneixement amb els actors del territori. D\u2019aquesta manera s\u2019ha implementat al projecte dividit en 4 etapes fonamentals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Establiment del marc conceptual de la governan\u00e7a del Canvi Clim\u00e0tic d\u2019influ\u00e8ncia marina (CCIM) al territori litoral.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An\u00e0lisi del marc jur\u00eddic-administratiu que regula la governan\u00e7a del CCIM al Delta del Llobregat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An\u00e0lisi econ\u00f2mic i social de les conseq\u00fc\u00e8ncies del CCIM al Delta del Llobregat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An\u00e0lisi de la capacitat de resposta institucional i de la societat civil als reptes generats pel CCIM.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metodologia de treball<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An\u00e0lisi de les pol\u00edtiques i plans locals d\u2019adaptaci\u00f3 al canvi clim\u00e0tic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An\u00e0lisi de les pol\u00edtiques de gesti\u00f3 territorial i sectorials.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Realitzaci\u00f3 d\u2019entrevistes amb els actors del territori (\u00e0rees protegides, infraestructures, \u00e0rea agr\u00edcola, aq\u00fc\u00edfer, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Realitzaci\u00f3 tallers participatius sectorials i intersectorials amb els actors i l\u00edders del territori per avaluar escenaris i trade-offs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-06642b23de55068211dd47ed05f4bcb0\"><strong>European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil Systems (ETC\/ULS)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> European Environment Agency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-uls\">https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-uls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The&nbsp;ETC on Urban, Land and Soil Systems (ETC\/ULS)&nbsp;is an international consortium working with the European Environment Agency under a framework partnership agreement for the period 2019-2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;ETC\/ULS, supports&nbsp;the&nbsp;European Environment Agency&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/\">EEA<\/a>) in supporting monitoring of urban development in Europe, creating seamless European wide spatial reference data and develop and analyse various land related indicators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ETC is embedded and part of the&nbsp;European Environmental Information and Observation Network&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/\">Eionet<\/a>) and is cooperating with other European institutions like the&nbsp;Joint Research Centre&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/index.cfm\">JRC<\/a>),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu\/portal\/page\/portal\/eurostat\/home\/\">Eurostat<\/a>, the different DGs of the European Commission and&nbsp;ESPON&nbsp;(European Spatial Planning Observation network).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f8dc0f1895812c60e06ae6e385051fc0\"><strong>People for Ecosystem Based Governance in Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and Coast (PEGASO)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>01\/02\/2010<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 21\/01\/2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> EU FP7 research and innovation programme (FP7-ENVIRONMENT)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-uls\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/244170\">PEGASO research results on CORDIS<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>PEGASO developed common, novel approaches to support integrated policies for the coastal, marine and maritime realm of the Mediterranean and Black sea basins. It was a collaborative project between twenty-five partners that co-worked over four years under the lead coordination of Fran\u00e7oise Breton at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB). The PEGASO final conference took place in Antalya (Turkey), from the 14th to 17th of January 2014 gathering a wide range of institutes and networks from the Mediterranean and Black Sea and representatives from Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) initiatives in other regional seas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6bad0c47658c2952ae2d36e470c4310c\"><strong>Coastal Governance and Adaptation Policies in the Mediterranean (COASTGAP)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2025\/06\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1840\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>01\/07\/2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 30\/04\/2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> MED Programme<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-uls\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/244170\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coastgap.facecoast.eu\/\">coastgap.facecoast.eu<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Project archive: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu\/metadata\/projects\/coastal-governance-and-adaptation-policies-in-the-mediterranean\">CLIMATE-ADAPT<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The Mediterranean coastal zones are among the most threatened by Climate Change effects, also considering their environmental and infrastructural value and concomitant strains like erosion, salt water intrusion, littoralization, etc.. The project COASTGAP was born after more than 10 years of shared experiences in this field, among many Mediterranean coastal Administrations and Institutions, which established the cluster FACECOAST (www.facecoast.eu) in 2011. COASTGAP aimed to capitalize 12 best practices from 9 projects of the cluster (from MED and other programmes), to produce governance and adaptation policies aimed to reduce risk along coastal zones and foster their sustainable development (there were 15 institutions involved). In order to provide an operational and coherent strategy for the 2014-2020 financial period, supported by multi-level agreements among coastal Administrations, COASTGAP aimed to design, characterize and prepare to launch the Joint Action Plan on Adaptations to Climate Changes in MED Basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UAB role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To link the cluster FACECOAST and the PEGASO ICZM Platform. The UAB developed an operational network between MED coastal concerned Organizations. The ICZM platform of PEGASO project has been used for testing best Practices 1 (Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines Capitalisation) and BP4 (Protocol on Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Mediterranean- Art.8 Methodology Capitalisation) of the COASTGAP project. \u00a0The UAB has also linked coastal stakeholders from the region of Catalunya with the Best Practices capitalized in the COASTGAP project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-775e5af8d4ba58d636eccea3f9435def\"><strong>Innovative Ecosystem-Based Governance Strategies for Resilient Coasts (INN-COASTS)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>01\/01\/2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 31\/12\/2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> Ministerio de Econom\u00eda y Competitividad (Spanish Government).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The INN-COASTS project proposes a very innovative ecosystem-based integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) conceptual framework and associated tools for decision making. It is analyzing the state and evolution of the Mediterranean Spanish coast, its ecosystems, urban settlements, protected and non protected areas, making assessments and providing guidance for coastal resilient planning and management, understood in this proposal as the capacity of being flexible adapting to social-environmental changes in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Spanish coastal case studies have been chosen in order to carry out the project: 1) the South Metropolitan area of Barcelona (Llobregat Delta \u2013 Garraf coast) (Catalonia); 2) the Ebro Delta (Catalonia); and 3) the Eastern coast of Almer\u00eda (Andalusia), to work in each of them together with managers and decision makers, in a participative governance, sharing concepts, visions, data and results and identifying drivers and potential responses in terms of ICZM, with the aim of bridging science and decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project proposes to build an inventory of the coastal and marine ecosystems in the pilot sites, with criteria to identify and mapping them through different methods and assess their state and trends, identifying degradation hotspots but also networks of healthy ecosystems that should be taken into account for improving the planning and management of the coast. Guidance for ecosystem-based management are being written having in mind the anthropic but also global (including climate) change pressures on these ecosystems and their future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UAB role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The INTERFASE team from UAB is the lead partner and the main staff provider of the project and is coordinating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Activity 1: Ecosystem-based approach guidance for the ICZM in Spanish Mediterranean coasts,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Activity 2: Development of a coastal ecosystem accounting methodology \/ blue green inventory for the Mediterranean Spanish coasts,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Activity 3: Resilient coasts at the face of climate change adaptation: new challenges for urban adaptive planning and governances,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Activity 4: Sustainable tourism in coastal areas: state of the art and challenges,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Activity 5: ICZM governance platform in coastal areas&nbsp;and &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Activity 6: Project coordination and dissemination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6c2b1c23ba1fbf0888a7dfe5d82050b2\"><strong>EAGLE \u2013\u00a0Harmonising European Land Monitoring<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/land.copernicus.eu\/eagle\">https:\/\/land.copernicus.eu\/eagle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The EAGLE group (Eionet Action Group on Land monitoring in Europe) was set up in 2009 by members of EIONET NRCs on land cover as a response to the growing need to discuss solutions for a better integration and harmonization of national mapping activities with European land monitoring initiatives (i.e. CLC) at technical level, independently from any political or industry preferences, following the concept of a bottom-up approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EAGLE concept \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>can be a useful framework for the integration of LC \/ LU information from various data sets in one single data model.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is applicable on both national and EU level.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is a vehicle for comparison and semantic translation between different LC\/LU nomenclatures, and facilitates data exchange.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is open to be implemented as a LC \/ LU data collection standard for national land monitoring initiatives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can be a coherent common data framework for several single GMES products (CLC, HRLs, Urban Atlas).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-97a32f57688fd08be1fdb257fa901217\"><strong>European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation (ETC\/ACM 2014-2018)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> European Environment Agency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-atni\">https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-atni<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Publications:<\/strong> European Environment Agency (EEA) (2018). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/publications\/unequal-exposure-and-unequal-impacts\/\">Unequal exposure and unequal impacts: social vulnerability to air pollution, noise and extreme temperatures in Europe.<\/a> EEA Report N\u00ba 22\/2018, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, ISBN 978-92-9248-048-0, ISSN 1977-8449, doi:10.2800\/32418 [UAB SGR Interfase contributing authors: J. Fons]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>European Topic Centres (ETCs) are centres of thematic expertise contracted by the EEA to carry out specific tasks identified in the EEA Multiannual Work Programme and the annual work programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2014-2018 the INTERFASE researchers contributed to the European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation. INTERFASE role focused on&nbsp; improvement of the current noise database through its design and implementation to facilitate data reporting under the Environmental Noise Directive by the EEA member countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European noise database produced has been used in assessments related to the noise situation at European, national and also sub-national level, and also related to sectoral and cross-cutting assessments (linking noise with health, transport, social deprivation, quiet areas and ecosystems assessments), in view of improving the policy process and evaluation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-verd-tropic-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a5de4f1682d8fcd9939d09419ae8e992\"><strong>European Topic Centre on Urban land and soil systems (ETC\/ULS 2015-2018)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide has-gris-pubilla-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start date: <\/strong>2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Completion date:<\/strong> 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>Financing institution<\/strong>:<\/strong> European Environment Agency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-uls\/\">https:\/\/www.eionet.europa.eu\/etcs\/etc-uls\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The\u00a0European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil systems, ETC\/ULS, supports\u00a0the\u00a0European Environment Agency\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/\">EEA<\/a>) in supporting the monitoring of urban development in Europe, creating European wide spatial reference data and developing and analysing various land related indicators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UAB role<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAB&nbsp; contributed to the ETC\/ULS during 2015-2018 in the following tasks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The development of an Integrated Data Platform which enables the semantic inventory, handling and analysis of various spatial layers facilitating effective and efficient integrated spatial data analysis and provides a spatial assessment service to the different parts of the EEA\u2019s work programme.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Development of a land recycling indicator. 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