SSTILE
Scenarios and Strategies for Infrastructures, Landscape and Environment

The Sub-project’s main aim is to formulate a shared methodology that could ensure environmental sustainability of programmes, plans and projects, which are being carried out for certain infrastructures to be built in the five study areas. The Sub-project’s partners intend to use the Strategic Environmental Assessment to evaluate the sustainability of the possible territorial development scenarios, paying special attention to the theme of landscape and its sensitiveness to certain alterations. They will focus on the definition of valuable indicators for landscape assessment, which will lead to the formulation of a set of guidelines or best practices to be used in similar circumstances and suitable for different situations and territories.

Four out of the five partners (Provinces of Latina, Vercelli, Palermo, Prefecture of Thessaloniki) have chosen a theme mainly related to mobility; the fifth partner (Municipality of Mouriki) has chosen to deal with the theme of waste water management. Preliminary reflections have been made among the partners on the relationship between the SSTILE project itself and some recent European documents and directives, such as European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP, 1999), the European Landscape Convention (ELC, 2000), and, of course, the SEA Directive (2001).

SSTILE has involved the following partners

Province of Latina (Italy) - Lead partner
Province of Vercelli (Italy)
Province of Palermo (Italy)
Municipality of Mouriki (Greece)
Prefectural Authority of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Meetings

Kick off meeting: 20th/21st November 2006, Vercelli (Italy)
Each partner has presented his study case; themes dealt with are mobility, infrastructures for territory, development scenarios, landscape, SEA; a working plan has been delivered. On occasion of the meeting, Sub-project has been presented to other local public actors (staff members from local administration offices, local associations, universities, journalists…).

Second meeting: 27th April 2007, Municipal Authority of Mouriki (Emporio Kozanis, Greece)
Each partner has presented his final study case, his methodology and the work done so far; then, the contents of the second internal report and the deadlines have been discussed. The meeting and interviews have been broadcasted on three local TV channels in four occasions, and published on the local press of the Prefecture of Kozani.

Final meeting: 14th November 2007, Latina (Italy)
Each partner presented the work done; then, the draft of the final report and the final deadlines were discussed. The first part of the meeting was attended also by the Region of Latium, Lead Partner of the Progresdec RFO.

Outputs / Results

First project activities have been useful to know each other and to have an overall point of view over each study case. Comparison among study cases served the purpose of verifying their coherence with the project’s intended aims and of rectifying any deviation from the common target: each partner will apply SEA on a local plan of infrastructure (mobility for Latina, Vercelli, Palermo and Thessaloniki, waste water management for Mouriki). An FTP site has been established for the exchanging of data.

Then, sub-project's official website (http://www.sstile.eu), and the Sub-project webpage on the PROGRESDEC website (http://www.progresdec.org/subproject.php?id_proj=3), have been published.

Each partner's exact study case has been focused, and most partners have already accomplished many of the stages of the Strategic Environmental Assessment. A clear overall view of each partner's progress will be possible during the second meeting. Each partner worked on his study case and developed his own methodology, according to what had been decided during the previous bilateral meeting. A second internal report was delivered after the second meeting, and a final report was delivered after the final meeting.

http://www.sstile.eu/