A-AAGORA Spring School hosts high-level workshop on policies for coastal restoration

As part of the A-AAGORA Spring School, the University of Aveiro hosted a High-Level Policy Workshop dedicated to the enabling conditions needed to scale up coastal ecosystem restoration solutions.

The session took place on 23 April 2026, at the Academic Acts Hall of the Rectorate Building of the University of Aveiro, and brought together Spring School participants, researchers, experts and representatives from organisations working in coastal management, innovation, science, regional governance and European projects.

The programme included two discussion panels. The first panel, “Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems to deliver healthy biodiversity: sources of inspiration”, presented examples, experiences and sources of inspiration for the protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems. After the initial interventions, participants from the A-AAGORA Spring School contributed to the debate through questions addressed to the panellists, bringing their own perspectives, contexts and experiences into the discussion.

The first panel featured Linn Bruholt, from UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Patrícia Castro, from the Intermunicipal Community of the Aveiro Region (CIRA); Mihai Nicolescu, from the University Politehnica of Bucharest; Martin Buca, from Split-Dalmatia County; and Darragh O’Súilleabháin, from Cork County Council (CCC).