SARCC Milestones Timeline
November 2017 🤝
The Partners attended a targeted call event that saw Southend Borough Council agree to be Lead Partner and develop a bid that would allow nature-based solutions (NBS) to be mainstreamed as part of coastal management plans across coastal areas in the 2Seas programme area
The purpose of the project would be to utilise NBS to develop a flexible coastal flood management strategy that would be reactive to the risks of sea level rise, tidal surges and storms that will be caused by climate change, in the way that traditional grey infrastructure is not
May 2018 📝
A concept Note was submitted, which received a positive response and the Partners undertook to submit a full application in November 2018
August 2018
London, UKPartners met face to face in London and a structured approach was agreed as to how the Partners would integrate all of the requirements and recommendations into the full application and develop the relationships between the different WPs and how they can be coordinated into delivering the NBS Pilot Investments
October 2018
Bruges, BelgiumPartners met face to face in Bruges to further plan the SARCC programme
November 2018
Full application submitted
January 2019 ✅
Application approved
June 2019
Middelkerke, BelgiumThe Partners meet in Middelkerke, to discuss the SARCC project initiation phase and start to plan each Work Package
October 2019
Southend-on-Sea, UKWith the initiation phase ending, the SARCC Partners met in Southend-on-Sea, to talk about any remaining work for the initiation phase and plans for entering the next phase. The Partners also visited some potential pilot sites for Southend Borough Council
March 2020
Southend, UKHosting SARCC Eco-Reef Workshop
March 2020 💻
Video ConferenceThe Partners met from across Europe to catch up with where everyone is up to within the SARCC project, discuss progress and any changes
October 2020 💻
Video ConferenceOnce again, the Partners met from their homes across Europe to catch up with where everyone is up to within the SARCC project, discuss progress and any changes
November 2020 🎥
Online WebinarHosting SARCC November 2020 Seminar online with videos and live discussion
April 2021 🎥
Online WebinarThe second SARCC webinar, held in April 2021, was organised by the Environment Agency (Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly area), Exo Environmental and Flemish Department for Environment, Spatial Planning. With all that we’re learning about Nature-based Solutions (NBS) through the work of the SARCC project, we were excited to share this with our fellow coastal practitioners, with the aim of hopefully sparking ideas, sharing good practise and generally making the world of NBS that bit more accessible, to encourage the use of NBS schemes over traditional ‘grey’ infrastructure in the future https://www.sarcc.eu/blog-posts/sarcc-april-2021-seminar-overview
May 2021 💻
Video ConferenceThe Partners met from across Europe to catch up with where everyone is up to within the SARCC project, discuss progress and any changes
October 2021
SARCC WorkshopThe full live SARCC webinar took place on 14th October 2021. In these videos a number of experts will touch upon a wide variety of nature-based solutions in coastal protection
October 2021 - October 2022
SARCC Public LecturesThe SARCC-project is planning four different in-depth lectures for a larger audience, spread over 11 locations on the Belgian coast. The lectures will happen through four different thematic lectures about the impact of climate change on nature, agriculture, the water system and the coastline itself. https://www.sarcc.eu/blog-posts/sarcc-public-lectures
6th-8th December 2022 🎉
The SARCC project officially ends! The closing conference took place on the 6th to the 8th of December, 2022 in Southend on Sea, England. The deliverables are now all available to help inform urban decision-makers on how to use Nature-Based Solutions in long-term coastal management strategies. View the Final Conference Page here. A view the Project Outputs / Results here.