MPA4Change Online Policy Bootcamp
Marine Protected Areas: facing the climate emergency
📅 17 December 2025
🕙 10:00h CET (until 12:30h)
MPA4Change, the Interreg Euro-MED project aiming to transform Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) into effective Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for climate resilience, is pleased to invite you to this Online Policy Bootcamp.
About the Policy Bootcamp
This event will bring together policymakers, managers, and stakeholders to exchange insights and strategies for accelerating climate adaptation across Mediterranean MPAs.
The session will offer an opportunity to discuss key policy recommendations and explore practical tools, advocacy strategies, and real-world examples of climate change adaptation in MPAs throughout the Mediterranean region. These solutions will be framed within the 100MPA MedAlliance, a collaborative initiative developed under MPA4Change to scale up climate adaptation planning across the Mediterranean basin.
Registrations are now open!
Who should attend
We warmly invite the following professionals to join us for this online policy bootcamp:
Policymakers at all levels, with a special focus on those working in the Mediterranean region
Marine Protected Area managers interested in climate change adaptation
Other stakeholders engaged in or curious about this topic
Speakers and Agenda*
10:00 – 10:05| Welcome & Agenda Overview
👤Patricia Puig, Oceanogami
10:05 – 10:15| The Mediterranean Climate Emergency
👤Ernesto Azzurro - Italian National Research Council (CNR)
10:15 – 10:25| MPAs as Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation
👤Yaprak Arda - IUCN-Med
10:25 – 10:35| Policy Recommendations for Climate Adaptation in MPAs (MPA4Change project)
👤María Giménez, Oceanogami
10:35 – 10:40| Q&A
10:40 – 11:10| Interactive Group Session: Feasibility of Climate Adaptation in Mediterranean MPAs (Breakout groups)
👤Moderated by Oceanogami & EUROPARC Federation
11:10 – 11:20| Short break
11:20 – 11:50| Feedback from Breakout Groups
👤Group Rapporteurs
11:50 – 12:00| From Policy Vision to Practice: The 100MPA MedAlliance
👤 Joaquim Garrabou - Marine Science Institute (ICM - CSIC)
12:00 – 12:10| Policy Alignment of the 100MPA MedAlliance
👤Carole Martínez - MedPAN
12:10 – 12:20| Lighthouse Case Studies: Portofino MPA and Brijuni National Park
👤Lorenzo Merotto and Andrea Blakovic
12:20 – 12:25| Q&A
12:25 – 12:30| How to Support and Engage with the Initiative / Wrap-up
👤Oceanogami & EUROPARC Federation
*Please bear in mind that the speakers and agenda could be subject to changes.
This Policy Bootcamp is being organised by the EUROPARC Federation in the framework of the MPA4Change project, being the partner responsible for Policy & Advocacy activities, in coordination with the consultancy Oceanogami and the support of the whole MPA4Change project consortium.
Organised by:
With the support of MPA4Change project partners:
