Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC)
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| Motto | EUCC for healthy sea and coast |
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| Founder | Prof. Helias Udo de Haes, Erik van Dijk, Frank van der Meulen, Pim Jungerius, Jan Visser, Albert Salman, Prof. Volker Haeseler, Pat Doody, Prof. Rioland Randall, Prof. Francisco Garcia Novo,Frank DeRaeve, Christophe Lefebvre |
| NL 8043.36.192.B01 | |
| Registration no. | 40447714 |
| Purpose | Environmental |
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| Origins | European Dune Symposium Leiden, Netherlands (1987) |
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Area served
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Four European regional seas |
| Method | Ecosystem restoration, sustainable development promotion, training, education and awareness |
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Members
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500 full right members, 2700 network members |
| Mission | Conserving and maintaining healthy seas and attractive coasts for both people and nature |
| Website | www |
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Formerly called
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European Union for Dune Conservation (EUDC), European Union for Coastal Conservation (EUCC), EUCC - The Coastal Union |
Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC) is a nonprofit organization with a membership of around 500 institutions, NGOs and experts, in 40 countries. Its network at large involves about 2500 professionals involved in coastal and marine management issues. Founded in 1989 with the aim of promoting coastal management by bridging the gap between scientists, environmentalists, site managers, planners and policy makers, it has grown into the largest network of coastal practitioners and experts in Europe, with 13 National Branches, an International Secretariat in Leiden (the Netherlands), and offices in Barcelona (Spain), Biarritz (France), Warnemünde (Germany), Szczecin (Poland), Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Sliema (Malta). EUCC’s working area is Europe and its neighbouring regions, especially the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
EUCC’s mission has evolved throughout years of activity and currently is dedicated to conserving and maintaining healthy seas and attractive coasts for both people and nature; and, that people can enjoy these environments in a socially safe and sound way as well.
To this end, regarding the coastal and marine environment, EUCC seeks to:
The organisation has a number of important strategic partners and alliances including: ECNC Group, Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), BioMarine, IUCN, EECONET Action Fund, European Habitats Forum (EHF), ECOTRANS and MIO-ECSDE. Furthermore, EUCC has the observer status in the OSPAR and HELCOM regional conventions and is in the process to become Barcelona Convention/Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) partner.
At the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Dutch dune conservation foundation (Stichting Duinbehoud), the 1st European Dune Conference was organized in September 1987, which brought together ecologists, academics and managers of sand dune coasts from twelve European countries, in Leiden, the Netherlands, to discuss future directions for conservation management. As a result of this conference the European Union for Dune conservation & Coastal management (EUDC) was launched and formally founded in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 6 January 1989, as an association under the Dutch law. Its first undertaking consisted in producing an inventory of coastal dunes throughout Europe. Under the leadership of its Director General Albert Salman, the association evolved towards a broader coastal scope and then changed the name to European Union for Coastal Conservation (EUCC) in 1991 at the occasion of the 3rd International Conference in Galway (Ireland). Since then, the abbreviation has been kept. Milestones of the first period are the organisation of the 1st European Coastal Conservation Conference in Scheveningen 1991, and a contribution to the preparation of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy (PEBLDS), adopted in 1995 by the Environment for Europe Ministers Conference. Later on, under the auspices of UNEP and the Council of Europe, EUCC led the elaboration of the European Coastal & Marine Ecological Network (ECMEN) and the European Code of Conduct for Coastal Zones. The latter was officially adopted by the Council of Europe Ministers in 1999.
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