Coastal regions, including the Neretva River in Croatia and the Po River in Italy, are significantly exposed to a saltwater intrusion causing extreme negative effects on agriculture and tourism. 

 Every year many well-functioning family-run companies disappear due to the inability to find successors to the business leaders. Despite existing succession schemes in some countries, there is still overall limited experience and awareness on business ownership transfer. 

COASTING project is the result of co-operation of previously implemented coastal area management projects, COAST, COASTANCE and COASTGAP, where DUNEA participated as a project partner. 

Construction of the new museum of gold and silver in Smokvica, renovation of cultural very valuable palace Ismail-Gabrielis where the Museum of the town of Korcula is situated, the restoration of the parish house where will be established a Native house of Dubrovacko primorje and the restoration of the Austrian road on Mljet..

The walls of Ston and its fortress, park Komarda and Ston lapidary in the vicinity, are the backbone of this project which provides for reconstruction, rehabilitation and equipping of the key objects of cultural heritage in the area of Ston and putting into operation and availability to tourists. At the same time it is planned reconstruction of the Napoleon route and updates thematic paths 'Peljesac - wine empire'...

How to improve the implementation of certain instruments smart specialization strategies by sharing their experiences and knowledge, is the task of the project Monitoris3, since it was noticed that such strategies adopted at the national and regional levels are faced with the challenge of quality monitoring of their implementation ...