"The “Strategic partnership: Guardians of the Sea” project is the proposal of environmental protection entities with great international importance like Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste (Spain), la Zoological Society of London (England) y el Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (Portugal) with two young associations like GreenRope (Italy) and World Fish Migration Foundation: Stichting Wereld vismigratie (Nederland). A european partnership will be created to promote the employability of young people with fewer opportunities, to protect the natural environment and encourage environmental education to promote green entrepreneurshipThis project is an initiative to establish the GUARDIAN OF THE SEA in many european countries, through the creation or a europan partnership with a continuated work (it involves 3 transnational meetings and many coordinated activities through a participated and democratic methodology) and the creation of the GUARDIANS OF THE SEE GUIDE, a high quality intelectual result with everything you need to implement and replicate the project.These guardians will be young fellows (by future European projects) during a period they will ensure the preservation of protected species such as the Bottlenose dolphin, the European eel, the Logger head sea turtle and the Cory’s shearwater while they are forming in respectful work practices to the environment and create their own entrepreneurial projects. The GUARDIANS OF THE SEA of the future will be young people who want to work in jobs linked with the sea or located in areas of influence of these protected species. During the months of the practices, the guardians will help to preserve and study the protected species while they receive specific courses to develop behaviors and working practices that respect the environment and help them to start up their own green business projects thanks to the intellectual results that has been done previously. In cooperation with fishermen's associations and private entities, the employability of these young people will be promoted through an specific training and their environmental commitment . At the end of his fellowship, these young people will become trainers of the new generation of the Guardians of the Sea, ensuring the survival of the project will become.The ""Strategic partnership: Young Sea Guardians"" project will create a European network with a large impact on youth with fewer opportunities through an ultimate tool for not only the joint protection of endangered species, but also for the transfer and application of innovative practices. But most of all have a great impact in promoting green employability of young Europeans. This impact will result in a number of specific results short, medium and long term, highly impact GUIDE encompass the GUARDIANS OF THE SEA, specific training materials, open and participatory methodologies, guides work.Furthermore, this network will have a heavy impact on the partners where young associations will have the opportunity to work with top-level institutions in the field of research and environmental protection, while these ones discover new and refreshing ways to work together and also they find promising young people."

Over one million barriers on Europe’s rivers have resulted in extensive loss of river connectivity and 70-90 % of Europe’s floodplain areas are ecologically degraded due to human modifications. Despite having an ambitious EU policy framework in place, implementation of fresh and transitional water ecosystem restoration is lagging behind. Reasons for this lie among others in a lack of knowledge, awareness and participation of local people and business actors. The overall aim of DANUBE4all is the development of a comprehensive Restoration Action Plan for the Danube river basin lighthouse developed in an unprecedented co-creation process with stakeholders, integrating citizens’ interests to support the Mission “Restore our ocean and waters by 2030”. Based on solid scientific knowledge and new findings, the Action Plan will promote the improvement of ecological status, biodiversity and ecosystem connectivity. The development and implementation of innovative “Win-Win Nature Based Solutions” will simultaneously lead to an enhanced free-flowing status of rivers and floodplains, flood and drought risk reduction and enhancement of sediment and biota continuity. The aim is to adapt to climate change as well as to improve the endangered biodiversity of ecosystems. This will be reached by identifying, processing and upscaling effective and economically profitable restoration measures. DANUBE4all will implement innovative demonstration activities at three sites in the Upper, Middle Danube and the Danube Delta. DANUBE4all will link ecological and economic benefits providing tailored business cases for SMEs, and will deliver innovative tools to accelerate citizens’ and stakeholders’ engagement. DANUBE4all will provide GIS and Citizen Science tools for upscaling these restoration actions via ten Synergy Sites to the Danube Basin and will also transfer the outcomes to five Associated Regions by concrete steps towards the development of Replication Roadmaps for restoration action.

Rivers rank among some of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, and are the focus of costly restoration programmes that cost billions to taxpayers. Much of Europe depends on water from rivers for drinking, food production, and the generation of hydropower, which is essential for meeting the EU renewable energy target. Yet only half the EU surface waters have met the WFD’s 2015 target of good ecological status, due in part to the fragmentation of habitats caused by tens of thousands of dams and weirs which also pose a flood hazard. Some barriers are old and out of use, but may have historical value, while the life span of others will soon come to an end and may need to be removed. But barriers also provide energy, water, fishing and leisure opportunities, and may also help to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. Improving stream connectivity has been flagged as one of the priorities for more efficient stream restoration but effective rehabilitation of ecosystem functioning in European rivers needs to take the complexity and trade-offs imposed by barriers into account. AMBER will deliver innovative solutions to river fragmentation in Europe by developing more efficient methods of restoring stream connectivity through adaptive barrier management. The project seeks to address the complex challenge of river fragmentation through a comprehensive barrier adaptive management process, based on the integration of programme design, management, and monitoring to systematically test assumptions about barrier mitigation, adapt and learn.