Streamlining Networking and Management efforts in Mediterranean Protected Areas for Enhanced Natural Conservation and Protection
PANACeA is a horizontal project that focuses on the specific objective 3.2. “maintaining biodiversity and natural ecosystems through strengthening the management and networking of protected areas”. 
It defines a mechanism to increase the visibility and impacts of thematic projects’ results towards common identified targets through the specific activities: 
1) Synthesizing outcomes on natural protection and biodiversity conservation efforts;
2) Engaging a stakeholders’ community and transferring knowledge beyond the project´s lifetime, 
3) Implementing a communication and dissemination strategy, 
4) Developing a long term capitalization tool ensuring evidence based policy enforcement.
The activities ensure an active community of Mediterranean actors meant to overcome sectoral borders by integrating knowledge, allowing a better informed multilevel decision-making on and management of biodiversity.
PANACeA supports the establishment of a two-way communication channel with the scientific community to ensure an effective policy-science interface in the Mediterranean related to biodiversity protection and sustainable development.
It ensures a long term strategic goal of the Interreg MED programme by creating impacts beyond the EU Member states & in the Mediterranean basin as a whole. It contributes to the implementation of both EU and UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention policies in the domains of protection and conservation of biodiversity and natural resources, in protected areas.