PROJECT The Marine Adventures Respecting Environment (MARE) is an European voluntary project in the field of environmental protection, promoted and coordinated by the Marine Protected Area of Punta Campanella. It is classified as a Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance, covers 1,128 hectares in the Napoli's and Salerno's provinces and protects around 40 km of coastline and the sea in proximity. The MARE Project allows the MPA to host young people from different nations to support its activities of environmental education and protection. The project has been conducted since 2013, involving a total of 37 volunteers from 10 nations. The 2019's edition, lasting 9 months, involves 6 volunteers from: France, Latvia, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and Tunisia. GOALS The project, thanks to conducting activities of environmental promotion and protection, aims to: offer to the participants an experience of high formative and human value, through the development of key competences; promote and support environmental education, monitoring and safeguard; promote and strengthen the concept of active citizenship, inclusion and social dialogue. RESULTS AND IMPACTS The project will have positive effects on the participants for both the development of skills and the rooting of the concept of active citizenship. The project gave me not only the opportunity to learn another language, but also to meet different cultures, to develop my skills ... to reflect on what I want to do ... to learn ... to grow and develop. S. Lacombe (MARE 2013). The volunteers, through their actions, will make the EU's commitment to young people and environmental protection clear to the population, tourists and media and will be an example to follow.

ACTIVITIES - The activities of the Project take place within the initiatives of protection and environmental education of the MPA. In particular, the volunteers will support the staff of the MPA in the following activities: environmental education, carried out at institutions, associations and beaches and cliffs of the territory; environmental protection, carried out at beaches, cliffs and marine areas of the MPA; environmental and fauna monitoring, carried out at the Bay of Ieranto, marine areas, beaches and paths of the territory; promotion of ecotourism, carried out at the Bay of Ieranto (Nature Reserve managed by FAI); communication, research and internationalization, carried out at the office of the MPA, at its Visitor Center and sometimes in the municipalities of the Peninsula. PARTICIPANTS - The project will host 6 volunteers from France, Latvia, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and Tunisia. The Project MARE is open to any enthusiast youth, motivated to commit, enrolled in the European Solidarity Body and aged between 20 and 27 years. It is not necessary that the participants have specific experience or skills. The volunteers will be chosen based on their commitment or interest in nature conservation, in general, and in marine environment, environmental issues, eco-tourism and sustainable tourism. Communicative, open-minded and altruistic people are our ideal candidates. Youth with economic and geographical difficulties are welcome.