[Emek Filogullari]

We are looking for a partner in Greece in the framework of a project on the Rights of Nature for coastal ecosystems in the Mediterranean.

The ILP MED project was submitted to the last Euro-MED call one week ago with a partnership from 5 EU countries (PT, ES, FR, IT, GR), including 5 Universities and research centre and 2 Universities as associated partners (Universities of Bologna and Venice in Italy, IRD in France, Universities of Murcia, Tarragona, Sevilla (UPO) and Huelva in Spain). However, our partner from Greece (WWF Greece) is not willing to continue and we are looking for a new partner in Greece.

ILP MED is a transfer project oriented to the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP in Spanish) procedure as applied to the Mar Menor Lagoon in Spain. This experience has been granted by the Goldman price in 2024 (Professor Teresa Vicente from the University of Murcia) and is considered as the first significant and successful PLI case in Europe (Spanish law 19/22).

If PLI implementations are foreseen in ES, FR, IT in this project, for Greece, the goal is to investigate the PLI potential for the legal personality of coastal ecosystems and we are looking for an academic partner with this competence.

Time is very short to decide since we should send our feedback to the Euro-MED secretariat by next 26/06. If you are interested, I will send you the full proposal and tell you what to do to join the partnership. If you think that this proposal would be better adapted to other organizations in Greece, feel free to send us these contacts.

Thank you for your reply
Kind regards
Emek Filogullari & Alain Labatut – SMART-IB / Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

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