The SAR’s role

SAR is one of the three regional organizations in the partnership (SAR, KDM, TRIKALA) that will ensure the engagement of local communities and business actors as regional governmental bodies. The regional bodies will contribute to creating Stakeholder recruitment and engagement, leading to the co-creation of social innovations. The co-creation activities will include workshops, panel discussions, debates, and scenario-building exercises to empower the Capacity-building stakeholders with all the necessary infrastructure to implement the project.

The SAR’s Pilot action

The RURBANIVE intends to restore biodiversity and ecosystem activities on the island of Milos in the South Aegean Region. The methods to be applied during the RURBANIVE project will not harm the fauna and flora of such areas, as the consortium partners to execute the case studies have solid and extensive experience in handling species and ecosystems without creating any disturbance. RURBANIVE aims to rebuild ecosystem functions, develop and expand habitats and niches for endangered flora & fauna, and arrest functional microbial diversity losses. Care is taken to propagate and establish endemic and endangered plants of the Mediterranean garrigue biome, which are also part of Milos’s culture, landscape, and heritage in the restoration sites (together with their native rhizosphere microbiomes). The endemic and threatened plant species of Milos, their reproduction in the Company’s plant nursery, and, ultimately, planting these seeds/plants at the Company’s mine rehabilitation works to enrich the restoration’s plant potential. This will be achieved by restoring previous mining sites at Milos Island and digitally visualizing, using XR, the newly restored landscape.