Every year the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung generously hosts EUROPARC members, in their excellent centre in Gut Siggen, North Germany. Here, we enjoy an intense and practically orientated seminar, examining and sharing expertise in a given aspect of Protected Areas work. You can find previous Siggen Seminars here. Catching the wave: How to achieve more effective management in Marine Protected Areas.
This year, we will dive into our Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and discover how we can achieve more effective management. Management effectiveness is crucial for achieving both the conservation objectives that MPAs are designated for, and to support the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and Global 30x30 objectives.
In this seminar, participant's will gather relevant knowledge on the importance of assessing management effectiveness as a means to successfully achieve nature conservation objectives in the marine environment and learn some of the available tools to do so.
This Seminar will: Explain the policy framework around management effectiveness at the core of EU conservation strategies; Help participants understand how assessing management effectiveness falls inside the cycle of "design - implement - assess - improve"; Share experiences on main challenges that undermine effective management of MPAs; Acquire knowledge on how to set indicators and proceedings to assess management effectiveness;
The seminar is FREE for EUROPARC members. Participants are only asked to cover travel costs to Siggen.
Registration* and a draft programme will be made available soon. For now: Save the Date!
If you have any questions, please contact Fernando Pinillios & Esther Bossink under communications@europarc.org.
*Please note, that due to limited spaces, a selection of participants will be made upon registration. | 
