TESS

Transactional Environmental Support System

Coordinatore	ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS    more  Organization address address: Administration Building, University Campus city: THESSALONIKI postcode: 54124 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Basil Cognome: Manos Email: send email Telefono: 302311000000 Fax: 302311000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	2˙343˙455 €
EC contributo	1˙801˙111 €
Programma	FP7-ENVIRONMENT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change)
Code Call	FP7-ENV-2007-1
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-10-01   -   2011-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS  Organization address address: Administration Building, University Campus city: THESSALONIKI postcode: 54124 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Basil Cognome: Manos Email: send email Telefono: 302311000000 Fax: 302311000000	EL (THESSALONIKI)	coordinator	0.00
2	"ERENA,ORDENAMENTO E GESTAO DE RECURSOS NATURAIS LIMITADA"  Organization address address: RUA ROBALO GOUVEIA 11A city: LISBOA postcode: 1900 392 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Pedro Cognome: Beja Email: send email Telefono: +351 217991100	PT (LISBOA)	participant	0.00
3	ANATRACK LTD  Organization address address: "Princecroft Willis LLp, Fleet Court, New Fields, Stinsford Road 52" city: POOLE postcode: BH17 0NF contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Robert Cognome: Kenward Email: send email Telefono: +44 7720843684 Fax: +44 0 1929 553761	UK (POOLE)	participant	0.00
4	BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Fern Barrow city: "POOLE,DORSET" postcode: BH12 5BB contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Adrian Cognome: Newton Email: send email Telefono: +44 1202 965670 Fax: +44 1202 965046	UK ("POOLE,DORSET")	participant	0.00
5	CENTER ZA KARTOGRAFIJO FAVNE IN FLORE ZAVOD  Organization address address: ANTOLICICEVA 1 city: MIKLAVZ NA DRAVSKEM POLJU postcode: 2204 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Mladen Cognome: Kotarac Email: send email Telefono: 00386-(0)1-544-32-81 Fax: 00386-(0)1-544-32-82	SI (MIKLAVZ NA DRAVSKEM POLJU)	participant	0.00
6	DOGAL HAYATI KORUMA VAKFI  Organization address address: "BUYUK POSTANE CADDESI, KAT 5 BAHCEKAPI 43-45" city: ISTANBUL postcode: 34420 contact info Nome: Tolga Cognome: Bastak Email: send email Telefono: +90 212 5282030 Fax: +90 212 5282040	TR (ISTANBUL)	participant	0.00
7	EFSTRATIOS ARAMPATZIS MONOPROSOPI EPE  Organization address address: ANTONI TRITSI 21 BUILDING B city: THERMI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Olympia Cognome: Papadopoulou Email: send email Telefono: 302311000000 Fax: 302311000000	EL (THERMI)	participant	0.00
8	EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE USE SPECIALISTGROUP OF IUCN/SS  Organization address address: RUE DE LA SCIENCE 10 city: BRUXELLES postcode: 1000 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Robin Cognome: Sharp Email: send email Telefono: +44 208 9690381 Fax: +44 208 9690381	BE (BRUXELLES)	participant	0.00
9	Federation des Asssociations de Chasse et Conservation de la Faune Sauvage de l'Union Europeenne  Organization address address: RUE FREDERIC PELLETIER 82 city: BRUXELLES postcode: 1030 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Angus Cognome: Middleton Email: send email Telefono: +32 2 7326900 Fax: +32 2 7327072	BE (BRUXELLES)	participant	0.00
10	INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE DELTA DUNARII  Organization address address: BABADAG ST 165 city: TULCEA postcode: 820112 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Ion Cognome: Navodaru Email: send email Telefono: +40 240524550 Fax: +40 240533547	RO (TULCEA)	participant	0.00
11	NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL  Organization address address: Polaris House, North Star Avenue city: SWINDON WILTSHIRE postcode: SN2 1EU contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Zoe Cognome: Barnett Email: send email Telefono: +44 1793 411 500 Fax: +44 1793 411 501	UK (SWINDON WILTSHIRE)	participant	0.00
12	SZENT ISTVAN UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Pater Karoly utca 1 city: GODOLLO postcode: 2100 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Laszlo Cognome: Szemethy Email: send email Telefono: +36 28 522086 Fax: +36 28 410189	HU (GODOLLO)	participant	0.00
13	TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL  Organization address address: Ehitajate tee 5 city: TALLINN postcode: 19086 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Mari Cognome: Ivask Email: send email Telefono: +372 6204800 Fax: +372 6204801	EE (TALLINN)	participant	0.00
14	ZENON FELIKS TEDERKO  Organization address address: AL KOMISJI EDUKACJI NARODOWEJ 46/1 city: WARSZAWA postcode: 02 797 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Zenon Cognome: Tederko Email: send email Telefono: +48 510275 210	PL (WARSZAWA)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'TESS will assist policy makers to integrate knowledge from the EU, national, regional and local level into the decision making process while also encouraging local people to maintain and restore biodiversity ecosystem services. To achieve this, a transactional environmental decision support system will be designed, linking central policy planning to local livelihoods. To develop this system, TESS will first research the needs and capacities of central policy makers and local actors, identify paths and trajectories of cooperation, and model required transactions between the central and the local in relation to each one’s needs. A set of representative case studies from the whole EU (including the New Member States and pre-accession countries) will test the validity of the models and consolidate the project’s results into the design for a transactional environmental decision support system, named TESS. TESS will also include base-line information and predictive models for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Sustainability (Impact) Assessment (SIA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). TESS will be supplemented by a set of brief and memorable policy guidelines to ensure its usefulness and enable its application in a European context. The process of developing TESS will be facilitated by a large interdisciplinary consortium, in which participants include European associations with a strong network of support and influence not only in the Brussels milieu, but also at the grassroots.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Restoring biodiversity is vital for healthy living and keeping Europe's economy competitive. European researchers have designed a decision support system for the two-way exchange of environmental information between central policy planners and local people.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

For the past 50 years, subsidies and market forces have encouraged the intensive use of a few crop species in Europe. One of the results was the drastic decline of biodiversity at local level. European regulations offer some protection for what is left, but do not affect most local decisions that cause a change in land use outside protected areas.

The main aim of the 'Transactional environmental support system' (TESS) project was to help reverse the decline in biodiversity. Funded by the EU, it proposed that local communities are able to restore environments if they are informed, empowered, and helped by policymakers and society as a whole.

In the first phase of TESS, biodiversity management information requirements of authorities at national and intermediate levels were analysed, and practical needs and stakeholder perspectives at the local level were identified. The project also developed a database of models suitable for bio-socioeconomic predictions and decision-making assistance both locally and regionally.

TESS project partners then designed a system that integrates biodiversity information from the local level into central planning and land-use decisions, while at the same time supporting local people to conserve their environment. Other project results include recommendations and policy guidelines based on how biodiversity trends relate to different management practices across Europe.

Currently, the design is being tested in a knowledge web portal; this trial will continue beyond the duration of the TESS project. In the future, 'smart' environmental support systems will be developed that could exchange decision support (provided by central authorities) for fine-scale mapping of decision outcomes (provided by local communities).