High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The MOSE Project (MOdulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, Experimental Electromechanical Module) is intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy from floods. The project is an integrated defense system consisting of rows of mobile gates which are intended to isolate the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea when the tide rises above 110 cm. The barriers will protect the city from water levels up to 3 m (9.8 ft). Together with complementary measures such as coastal reinforcement, raising quaysides and paving, and improving the lagoon environment, these barriers will protect the city from extreme events such as floods as well as morphological degradation. Work began in 2003 at the three lagoon inlets of Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia through which the tide ebbs and flows. The project is being executed by engineers at FIAT.