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Amplification Room
The Amplification Room (AR) is the space where the Natural Heritage community –including the Mission’s governance projects partners, the Associated Partners, as well as the Thematic Projects– comes together and opens to new external actors with the aim to facilitate transference in practice. These actors include target audiences for the Thematic Projects, as well as other interested North & South Mediterranean organisations.
Portfolio of services
The Amplification Room offers a “portfolio of services”, which are a variety of tailored in-person and online settings where the transference of solutions and knowledge can happen.
Capacity building
Peer review and transferability analysis
Objective: to correctly identify TP solutions and understand their potential for transference.
How? The process entails two steps: gathering the solutions (Adaptive Resource Collection form) and analyse the characteristics, implications and context needed for these to be transferred (Peer-review cluster).
Mission Catalogues
Objective: to showcase the selected solutions for dissemination, transference and capacity building purposes
How? The NHM builds easy-to-use formats for facilitating the presentation of solutions towards relevant target audiences, as well as the broad public.
- NHM Catalogue of transferable solutions from the TPs
- NHM Catalogue of best governance practices
- NHM Visualization tool of solutions
Interreg Euro-MED Academy and Library
Objective: to create a repository of all relevant solutions and associated training courses and materials from all projects funded by the Interreg Euro-MED programme to allow transference after the projects end.
How? The NHM and TPs collaborate with the Interreg Euro-MED JS and the other Missions to provide all information for the publication of solutions and associated capacity-building materials within the Euro-MED Academy.
Fostering adoption
Working groups
Objective: 4 thematic Working Groups engaging the Community of Practice as well as external actors with the aim to create a space for networking, capacity building and producing knowledge such as policy papers and briefs zooming in on specific EU, Mediterranean and international issues.
How? The Working Groups develop at least 2 online and 1 in-presence activities per year, offer capacity building for policy and technical implementation, and advocate for influencing the Mediterranean policy sphere (mainly via the development of policy papers, sharing best practices and networking).
Clustering activities
Objective: Through the clusters, the Thematic Projects’ solutions will be tailored to fit transfer opportunities, including expert advice and critical analysis.
How? By building specific multi-actor platforms, we will facilitate synergic co-operations and knowledge sharing to tackle concrete challenges.
Mentorship programme
Objective: to identify and help unfold the match between a provider of a solution, generally a TP consortium, and an organisation who would like to adopt the solution.
How? The program provides tailored and one-to-one support to facilitate and overcome the barriers for transference in that specific case. Mentorship programmes include two types of actions:
- Adoption actions = identifies takers, makes the link between TP and taker, starts a program for each one-to-one relationship, and follows up the dialogue.
- Empowerment action = tailored capacity building for adoption, combining general guidance and recommendations from literature and other projects, and expert advice through seminars, conversations and other types of exchange.
Policy mainstreaming
Common policy statements
Sharing the views from the Natural Heritage Community on a specific topic that is aligned with strategic policy discussion.
Annual Institutional Dialogues
Annual in-presence events organised by the Natural Heritage Mission with policy focus related to the current agenda. It offers TP important opportunities for training, networking and reaching policymakers and other key stakeholders.
Policy mapping and advocacy
Mapping key policies and policy stakeholders targeted by Thematic Projects, key events of their interest and policy outputs and activities foreseen. Support in bringing TP’s policy outputs and messages during key events, meetings and conferences.
Working groups
As a starting point, the Natural Heritage Mission created 4 thematic Working Groups engaging the Community of Practice as well as external actors in at least 2 activities per year with the aim to mainstream transferable solutions to other territories and into policy making processes at different levels (local, regional, national). The Working Groups will offer capacity building for policy and technical implementation, and advocate for influencing the Mediterranean policy sphere (mainly via the development of policy papers, sharing best practices and networking).
Working Group 1
Area-based Conservation
Working Group 2
Climate change adaptation and mitigation
Working Group 3
Evaluating the socio-economic value of biodiversity
Working Group 4
Ecosystem Restoration and Nature-based Solutions
Clustering
To tackle the need for more specific dynamics, not possible to deliver through the overall thematic Working Groups, the AR offers the possibility for the community to create clusters. In the clustering activity we add specific effort to aid and amplify the transfer processes by clustering interested stakeholders with the aim of answering the concrete needs of the community.
The main objectives of the clustering activities are transference and adoption of concrete TP results by creating a tailored environment. You can find some FAQs on how this works here.
The outcomes of the clustering activities might be: the reporting of a transference or adoption success story regarding a TP solution, fruitful networking activities, providing answers to a specific problem, and concrete experiences to feed the policy statements built within the overall thematic Working Groups. Clusters will also be created specifically for delivering the peer review process of TP results.
Hereafter, you can find the different categories of clusters created so far, as well as their relative reports:
Geographical clusters
Thematic clusters
Peer-review clusters
Forum
The Amplification Room will provide a unique opportunity for networking between Mediterranean actors, and has already made available an online Forum to welcome interested parties and identify participants’ needs and interests.
