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The Strategic Research Agenda for the Mediteranean basin has been published

Details: Created on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 13:56

This Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) serves the Shared Vision for a strapping Mediterranean Marine Research community that will contribute with new knowledge and applications to the sustainable growth of the region. Its specific aims are to:

- Produce new knowledge and promote excellence in Mediterranean Marine Science

- Contribute to sustainable economic growth by bridging gaps between research and industry with emphasis on innovation

- Support knowledge based policy making with emphasis on Marine Strategy Framework Directive implementation

- Develop new capacities with emphasis on north-south convergence, including citizen scientist involvement

This SRA will form the basis for future SEAS-ERA activities on Joint Calls and Common Programs. Consult the Strategic Research Agenda for the Mediteranean here

Source: Joan Albaiges, MINECO

International Conference of BENA, 21 - 24 June 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Details: Created on Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:10

The Balkan Environmental Association (BENA), the Istanbul Technical University (Faculty of Landscape Arhitecture), the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forests & Istanbul Metropolitan Planning are organizing the international BENA 2012 conference entitled "Sustainable Landscape Planning and Safe Environment".

This conference will be held from 21 to 24 June 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey. Subthemes are: Coastal Areas Planning; Urban Landscape and Rural Planning; Natural Resource Management; Public Health Impact; Environmental Education and Public Awareness; Sustainable Development. The call for abstracts has been extended to 27 february 2012. See the website for more information, registration and online submission of abstracts.

International Colloquium on ICZM in the Mediterranean, 21 - 22 May 2012, Annaba, Algeria

Details: Created on Monday, 30 January 2012 10:06

On 21 and 22 May 2012, the University Badji Mokhtar from Annaba organizes an International Colloquium on ICZM in the Mediterranean.

Objectives of the conference are:

Discussing issues on the governance of coastal areas and their integrated management for a sustainable development
Sharing experiences
Establishing networks of multidisciplinary teams to work on issues of governance of the coastal environment and ICZM.

For more information, click here (for now just in French, the working languages of the conference will be Arabic, French and English).

Training in Open Source GIS, spring 2012, University of Geneva, Carouge

Details: Created on Thursday, 12 January 2012 14:21

The University of Geneva in collaboration with UNEP/GRID-Geneva are pleased to announce a continuing education training on Open Source GIS that will be held in spring 2012.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software have become extremely popular since global mapping services became available through the Web and mobile phones.

This continued education course aims at presenting and discussing major open-source desktop GIS solutions. Participants will acquire the necessary knowledge to start working autonomously using the presented software. They will also learn some basics on spatial databases and automated geoprocessing. About half of this training will consist of practicals in a computer classroom.

More information is found in this brochure and the registration form is available on: http://www.unige.ch/formcont/opengis.html

Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010

Details: Created on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 12:18

Zenetos et al. (2010) present the state-of-art on alien species in the Mediterranean Sea, making distinctions among the four subregions defined in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive: (i) the Western Mediterranean Sea (WMED); (ii) the Central Mediterranean Sea (CMED); (iii) the Adriatic Sea (ADRIA); and (iv) the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMED). The updated checklist (December 2010) of marine alien species within each subregion, along with their acclimatization status and ori- gin, is provided. A total of 955 alien species is known in the Mediterranean, the vast majority of them having being introduced in the EMED (718), less in the WMED (328) and CMED (267) and least in the Adriatic (171). Of these, 535 species (56%) are established in at least one area. Find out more here!

Happy New Year!

Details: Created on Monday, 02 January 2012 00:00

Happy New Year to all the members of the PEGASO team!

The Bridge at the Edge of the World and Sustainability, 20 December 2012, American Center, Alexandria

Details: Created on Tuesday, 13 December 2011 09:12

On 20 December 2012 there is a meeting and book discussion planned by the American Center in Alexandria at 6:30 pm: “The Bridge at the Edge of the World - Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability” by James Gustave Speth.

How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels—they are accelerating, dramatically—and so, too, is the pace of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment, and toxification. In this book Gus Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning and a widely respected environmentalist, begins with the observation that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the point that we are now at the edge of catastrophe. Speth contends that this situation is a severe indictment of the economic and political system we call modern capitalism. Our vital task is now to change the operating instructions for today’s destructive world economy before it is too late. The book is about how to do that.

For more information contact Nadia Nassef (Director Information Resource Center, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

MEDCOAST Institute 2012, 25 September - 11 October 2012, Turkey

Details: Created on Thursday, 08 December 2011 14:40

The Ninth International Training Workshop on Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (MEDCOAST Institute 2012) will take place from 25 September until 11 October 2012 (Dalyan-Aegean Coast-Dalyan, Turkey) .

This is a flagship event organised by the MEDCOAST Foundation since 1994, probably being the longest running effort for international ICM training. This 17-day long unique workshop offers an opportunity for hands-on training on the latest ICM developments in a pleasant, friendly atmosphere and includes a study tour along the southern Turkish Aegean coast for seven days on traditional Turkish wooden sailing boats (gulets). The number of participants is limited to 20 and the latest date for application is 01 June 2012.

For more information click here or visit the MEDCOAST website.

PhD contract announcement in Spatial/Environmental analysis on land cover changes using LEAC models

Details: Created on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 16:45

The INTERFASE research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is offering a one year and a half contract to support research in Spatial/Environmental analysis. The fellowship is sponsored by the 7th Framework Program of the European Community as part of the project MEDINA (Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa). Read the details here.

Medcoast Conference 2011: PEGASO participation and Rhodes Declaration

Details: Created on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 08:10

The Tenth International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment was organised during 25-29 October 2011 in Rhodes, Greece. The event marked the twenty years of MEDCOAST efforts. Thirteen PEGASO institutions with about 20 representatives took active role in running of the conference. Two successive PEGASO keynote sessions that took place during the whole afternoon of the third day of the event allowed nine oral presentations mostly based on the work of PEGASO and some discussion from the audience. The two-page Rhodes declaration was adapted unanimously by the participants. The declaration cites the PEGASO project as a significant collaborative effort towards the development of tools and techniques for coastal and marine management and generation of the essential data and information at the basin scale. The proceedings of the conference are available for purchase from the MEDCOAST website.

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