Marina Dolbeth has joined the UAVR team.
Welcome Marina!

Ana Isabel Lillebø, coordinator of LAGOONS project, participated at the ‘Feira do Sal’, which took place in Aveiro, last July 18, giving a lecture on the “O Papel do Património Marítimo e Lagunar no Desenvolvimento Sustentável Local”.
Learn more here (PT).

On June 6, Per Stålnacke held a guest lecture at Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences http://www.tt.fh-koeln.de/institute/. Students and scientists from ITT followed the lecture. Besides talking about nutrient loads in Northern Europe, Per Stålnacke with examples from the STRIVER and LAGOONS projects show-cased how these projects with an integrated multi-disciplinary approach tries to improve the management of waters and the environment.

As part of the cooperation between ARCH and LAGOONS projects, the coordinators Ana Lillebø (UAVR) and Per Stålnacke (BIioforsk) together with the Polish team members Malgorzata Bielecka (IBW-PAN), Grzegorz Różyński (IBW-PAN) and Piotr Margoński (SFI) participated in ARCH  consortium meeting that was held in Gdansk, 27-29 May 2013.The scope of cooperation between LAGOONS and ARCH covers the organization of joint stakeholders meetings/workshops, as well as information exchange on documents, research and deliverables provided by both projects with respect to the Vistula Lagoon case study.

LAGOONS will be included in a catalogue on the FP7 projects on climate change, which aims at disseminating a lively picture of key European research projects on climate change that have received FP7 funding. Organized by the European Commission and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the event will be held in Brussels from 4-7 November 2013.

COASTAL LAGOON DOMAIN AND PROPERTIES: from fundamental research to policy implementation”
16-19th December 2013, Lecce, Italy
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The LAGOONS meeting  took place last April, 21-25, in Odessa, Ukraine.
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Bioforsk has produced a video about the LAGOONS project.
Watch the Norwegian or the english version.

The project LAGOONS was highlighted in the spanish newspaper “La Verdad” (The Truth) and in the webpage of the University of Murcia.
Check here

In the EURONEWS webpage you can choose any of the 12 broadcasting languages, including Portuguese and Spanish for listening interviews, in the language that they were originally recorded.
The report is also available on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, as well as in many other smaller regional streaming websites.