Venezia, 26th february 2009

Kick-off meeting of TRUST-LIFE+Project


On February 26, 2009 was held in Venice on Kick-off meeting for the start of the TRUST-LIFE +

The objective of the meeting was to present the stakeholders and ensure their involvement in the development of the project and in particular progress in the shared database, founded largely on the contribution of various organizations. It 'was emphasized that the project falls within the general framework of Directive 2000/60/EC and that the instrument developed during the activities constitute a fundamental means for the preparation of management plans in the Directive.

 

With these premises, the aspects of climate change  theme were described in detail and their importance in the project were underlined. Afterwards  a discussion highlighted the stakeholders comments regarding the strengths and the possible weaknesses of the project.

All participants expressed a unanimous consensus on the aim of TRUST and showed great interest and willingness to contribute in developing the database, which, as pointed out by ADB as coordinator of the project, will be a useful management tool available to all stakeholders.

 

  

Participants were then invited to make critical and proactive remarks of the project planning in order to provide clear guidance and ideas to improve the project quality.

The ADB has reiterated that all stakeholders contribution is crucial for the development of a great validity management tool that will be made available to all stakeholders. To this end, the opportunity to develop a work table (Technical Table) was reminded: it will  reunite key institutions representatives and will be aimed to share and address the different activities.

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