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General Objective:

To evaluate the degree of effectiveness of protected natural areas in their role as a marine ecosystem service for human well-being.

Specific objectives:

• Identify and promote synergies within the consortium and outside it.
• Assess the degree of effectiveness of natural protected areas (NPAs) through connectivity meta-networks between ecological, economic, social and institutional components, with emphasis on the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020.
• Disseminate the results and news of the project among sectors and interest groups and in civil society.

1. Coordination meetings for the approach of the work and follow-up
2. Review of the results of the ECOSER I project and similar initiatives to identify good practices in the management of NPAs
3. Identification of components of an NPA and their impact on the capacity to provide marine ecosystem services
4. Pilot testing and validation of results with stakeholders and users of ANPs
5. Development of the results archetype of the ECO-DATASEA visualization platform
6. Mapping of components of the PNAs
7. Preparation of a guide that establishes a system for the collection and compilation of the data that feeds the application/tool
8. Workshop on meta-networks to evaluate the applicability of the tool to evaluate the effectiveness of ANP
9. Celebration of the presentation day of the interactive tool
10. Preparation of the communication material and the campaign to disseminate the results of the project (including the press releases for the start and end of the project and results through the website and dissemination on social networks)

1. Research and review of the results of the ECOSER project to identify the environmental, economic, social and institutional factors that determine the degree of effectiveness of natural protected areas (NPAs).
2. Meta-network analysis using graph theory to analyze the connection of the ecological, social, environmental, and institutional components of the three case studies, as well as the effectiveness of natural protected areas (NPAs).
3. Organization of sectoral working groups in each area of study, in addition to interviews with managers, representatives of the productive and tourism sector and researchers from different fields who have developed research in these spaces for the validation of the previous analysis.
4. Development of a tool to visualize three connectivity matrices, see the relationships between the different actors involved in these areas and check their capacity to provide marine ecosystem services.
5. Celebration of two days of dissemination on the knowledge generated within the framework of the project.

• The first: based on the presentation of results to all the people participating in the information collection process.
• The second: based on graph theory, with different examples related to the sciences, both natural and social.