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 NETWORK AMBASSADORSNetworking requires special skills, but in the first place it requires the recognition that networking is serious work. Important achievements generally involve many people; success has many fathers, is a popular saying. Even in the age of Internet, the effectiveness of spreading information strongly depends on people knowing people and people talking to people. If you share what you have heard with ten people (first step), who share this information with ten other people (second step), and so on, then in four to five steps all coastal professionals in Europe are informed. Network ambassadors play an essential role in ENCORA, in several ways. They help the coordination offices with the search of potential partners for creating European networks on specific issues on the request of an ENCORA member. They involve coastal professionals in the development of the Coastal Wiki, the coastal and marine Internet encyclopaedia. They transmit to the coordination offices practical knowledge and information for dissemination within the ENCORA network. ENCORA ambassadors therefore are crucial nodes for enriching the shared knowledge resource of the coastal and marine professional communities in Europe. Being an ENCORA network ambassador contributes to strengthening your personal network and to enhancing your value for your organisation. If you want to become an ENCORA network ambassador you should contact your national coordination office or just send a message to info@encora.org.  National news in this issue
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  SPICOSAAt the Spicosa kick-off meeting and at the 1st annual ENCORA meeting the Steering Committees of both projects have decided to work closely together. SPICOSA is the acronym for the FP6 Integrated Project Science-Policy Integration for Coastal System Assessment. It will provide a conceptual and practical system analysis framework (SAF) for dealing with coastal policy issues. This generic SAF will be developed in concert with 18 case studies in different European coastal zones. SPICOSA will help ENCORA in the development of the Coastal Wiki by producing Wiki articles on practical knowledge generated in the project. In this way important experience from the SPICOSA case studies and the SAF development will be widely disseminated among European professionals. ENCORA will organise a contact search for the SPICOSA case studies to connect them with relevant experience elsewhere and with similar studies ongoing in other projects around the European coastal zones. SPICOSA will also share the ENCORA Contact Database; the extension of this database with contact information from the SPICOSA partners and their stakeholders will greatly enhance its value.  SHORT COURSE ON SHORE PROTECTION STRATEGIESThe Gruppo Nazionale per la Ricerca sull’Ambiente Costiero (GNRAC), in collaboration with the Italian ENCORA network RIC and a few other coastal projects, will organise a training event on Shore Protection Strategies. This short course, aimed at young researchers and technicians from the Public Administration, will illustrate several shore protection methods, with special regard toward soft and innovative techniques that are applicable to the Mediterranean coasts. The training will be held in English language, and will take place in Marina di Massa (Italy) from 17 to 20 September 2007. It will be articulated in both theoretical classes and field trips along the coast. On 21 September 2007, there will be a national scientific meeting on the subject of innovative techniques for shore defence - an additional event to which participants of this course are welcome to attend. For registration contact the Italian coordination office rete.costa@unibo.it MASTER COURSE ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENTThis master course is organised by the Ecology Center at the University of Kiel. It lasts four semesters and will start in fall 2007. The Deadline for applications is due May 15, 2007. Further details can be found at www.ecology.uni-kiel.de/ecology/site/teaching/masters AQUACULTURE TWIN EVENTCOST, EUREKA-INNOFISK and the Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences of the European Science Foundation will organise on 11 and 12 June an Aquaculture workshop and a Brokerage event in Patras, Greece. A limited number of travel grants are available from the European Science Foundation, principally aimed at European young researchers. For information and registration go to www.esf.org/activities/calls/single-view/article/esf-lesc-travel-grants-for-the-aquaculture-twin-event-invitation-for-applications-240.html |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dansk-svensk kystmøde 2.-3. maj 2007 I begyndelsen af maj blev der afholdt et fælles dansk-svensk kystmøde i Øresundsområdet. Programmet indledtes i Malmø, hvor Länsstyrelsen var værter for formiddagens program. Der blev holdt oplæg om svenske kystemner af Bengt Rydell fra SGI, Mats Åkesson, Länsstyrelsen, Michael Dahlman, Kristianstads kommun samt José Ramirez og Lars Hartzén, SWECO. Om eftermiddagen var der ekskursion til Malmö Oljehamn, Bo01 (den nye bydel ved havnen) og Turning Torso. Herefter drog deltagerne til København, hvor der var fælles middag i Nyhavn. Torsdag mødtes deltagerne i GEOCENTER København, hvor danske kyster og dansk kystforskning blev præsenteret af Aart Kroon, Københavns Universitet, Per Sørensen, Kystdirektoratet, Erik Hoffmann, Danmarks Fiskeriundersøgelser og Karsten Mangor, DHI. Efter fælles frokost var der besøg hos Miljøkontrollen og Københavns Havnebad. Dagen sluttede med en rundvisning på Amager Strandpark. Der deltog i alt ca. 50 personer med ligelig dansk og svensk repræsentation. Arrangementet var en succes, og det er SENCORE/DANCORE’s plan, at succesen kan gentages ved en senere lejlighed.  YPEP kystseminarI forbindelse med ENCORA´s ”Young Professional Exchange Program” afholdes et kystseminar for unge forskere og medarbejdere indenfor kystzoneforvaltning. Det overordnede tema for YPEP-seminaret bliver: "Klimaændringernes betydning for kyster og estuarier" Seminaret afholdes den 11.-13. september 2007. Yderligere information følger snarest. Nye medlemmerDANCORE har på nuværende tidspunkt 138 medlemmer. I april er der kommet 7 nye medlemmer til fra følgende institutioner og firmaer: Miljøcenter Nykøbing Falster, Zoologisk Museum, Miljøcenter Ribe, Århus Universitet, Odsherred Kommune samt Skov- og Naturstyrelsen. Anlæg af undersøisk rev ved Amager StrandAmager Strandpark I/S er p.t. i gang med at anlægge et undersøisk rev ud for Amager Strand på mellem 3,5 og 4 meters dybde. Revet er det første, der er givet lov til i Danmark, og hensigten er, at det skal tiltrække liv og dermed være interessant for snorklere og dykkere. Læs mere 4th Conference of the European Society for Environmental History5-9 June 2007, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Read more Symposium on Marine Introduced Species in Denmark17 August 2007, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Read more 42nd European Marine Biology Symposium27-31 August 2007, Kiel, Germany Read more IMBER/LOICZ Continental Margins Open Science Conference17-21 September 2007, Shanghai, China Read more IMBER News Nordic Marine Academy OpportunitiesCurrent opportunities for PhD students
|  Colophon The ENCORA objective is to facilitate and create new opportunities for sharing knowledge and experience on coastal issues in Europe. This electronic newsletter will inform you frequently about the activities and achievements of the network. Every issue will contain a section with news about your national network or ICZM related topics in your country. This electronic newsletter may be forwarded freely to others working in the ICZM fiels. If you would like to receive the ENCORA Newsletter directly, please contact your national coordinator or subscribe to www.encora.org. News-items for publication can be send to encore@rikz.rws.minvenw.nl. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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