At site level, 10 Pegaso Cases (Collaborative Application SitES) are testing and validating the assessment tools developed during the project at different spatial scales, contributing to the Regional Assessment at basin scale of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

The workshop held last October in Alexandria (Egypt) was the first encounter of the different pilot sites in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. For the end-users, the CASEs represent a unique opportunity to compare and analyze at large scale (Mediterranean and Black Sea) the very different situations and responses that ICZM can bring. Forthcoming meetings to review advancement on pilot sites will be held in November 2012 in France, organised by Tour du Valat, and in Istanbul (Turkey) in January 2013.

Different CASES have been chosen in order to obtain a set of heterogeneous coastal situations; the CASES selected both in the Mediterranean (7) and in the Black Sea (3) represent different coastal physical features, geographic scales, socio economic contexts, coastal issues, conflicts among uses, and ICZM experiences.

In the Mediterranean Sea, the sites selected are the Al Hoceima coast, Bouches du Rhône, North Adriatic Sea, Aegean Islands, Dalyan-Köycegiz Special Protected Area, North Lebanon Coastal Zone and the Nile Delta. In the Black Sea, the Danube Delta, Sevastopol Bay, and the Guria Coastal Region.