Anticipating emerging challenges, redefining the way it works, targeting its research effort on key questions, focusing its projects so that they provide the most operationally effective responses. The Tour du Valat team has spent much of the past 18 months developing a new strategic vision to guide its actions as effectively as possible over the coming five years.
This process was carried out in consultation with some ten partner organisations and enabled us to make a clear-thinking and forward-looking examination of the Mediterranean context, whilst retaining a sense of our history, accomplishments and shortcomings. The aim was to redefine the positioning, objectives and structure of our programme for the period 2011- 2015.
The new programme has been constructed around 3 complementary themes:
1 – species conservation and global changes
2 – modelling, restoring and managing ecosystems
3 – wetland monitoring-evaluation and policies
Each theme includes a limited number of multi-disciplinary projects that will involve numerous technical, scientific and institutional partners.
This document also sets out the organisation and assets that will be made available to support implementation of the programme.
This strategic plan was presented to the Tour Valat’s scientific council in late October, so that it could then be submitted to the governing board at the end of the year. Once approved, a summarised version of the strategic plan will be available on our website.