Coordination, communication and evaluation of PITEM BIODIVALP
"This project is part of the plan BIODIVALP": The project aims to carry out the transversal activities of coordination of the actions within each simple project (PS), the organization and management of the partnership and continuity of the PITEM. It also provides for joint activities of communication and dissemination useful for the effective implementation of the plan and its evaluation. The PS is organized around 4 innovative Work-Packages (WPs). WP 1 aims to establish cross-border governance, integrated and sustainable that has not yet been defined in the matter and to organize the governance bodies. The latter is focused on strategic and technical-financial committees, which also include external actors and provide real value added in governance. As guarantor of the coherence and transversality of the OPs, governance will also facilitate the reuse of tools between POs. WP 2 focuses on communicating and disseminating PITEM results through a global communication plan for different recipients. The WP 3 foresees the monitoring and evaluation in the context of an approach based on efficiency and effectiveness through tools for all PS, including indicators corresponding to those of OS 

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2. WP 4 is also innovative in that it aims to guarantee the continuity of the PITEM through partnership instruments, between the Regions and the promotion of results in different programs, strategies, etc. (eg ERDF, Alpine Convention, EUSALP).

The Western Alps Massif is the biogeographic and transboundary link of the ALCOTRA program. It rubs shoulders with both the summits and the Mediterranean basin forming a hotspot of biodiversity. Nevertheless, this exceptional natural heritage is vulnerable to the erosion of biodiversity and to global changes (fragmentation of environments, climate change, etc.). Based on this observation, a consultation process between the 5 Regions and the territorial actors has made it possible to draw up a framework ambition aimed at protecting and enhancing biodiversity and Alpine ecosystems through a partnership and a network of cross-border ecological connectivities. This ambition is articulated in two strategic objectives, contributing to the EUSALP strategy and the Alpine Convention, and aiming to (i) stem the erosion of ecosystems and protected species and (ii) enhance the attractiveness of the cross-border territory. The originality of the activities concerns the cross-border structuring of an integrated governance, the knowledge and the methodologies of management of biodiversity reservoirs, a public policy of ecological connectivities and a strategy of valorization of the biodiversity. In addition, the activities provide for the capitalization of various European projects (see point 5). The French and Italian partners of the plan include protected areas, communities, associations and chambers of commerce.