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 HAPPY 2008 – WELCOME TO A NEW ERA OF SHARED KNOWLEDGE AND COMMON ACTIONThomas Friedman, in his bestseller book ‘The World is Flat’, tells us that humankind is currently living through one of the most extraordinary revolutions in history. We usually think of revolutions as sanguinary events, after which most people return to their usual life. This is not the type of revolution Friedman is talking about. This time there is no blood shedding and we don’t return to our usual life. We face a new dimension of globalisation, which is more profound than the entwining of national economies and global environmental resources: it is the empowerment of individuals, affecting everyone - from the New York citizen to the inhabitant of the most remote village of China. New technologies: Internet, the World Wide Web, personal computers and wireless data transmission, enable all of us to access almost all information and knowledge existing on earth, to exploit this resource by developing and offering new services and to enrich this resource with our own knowledge and ideas. Information and communication are no longer monopolised by institutions; they have become a shared resource of all inhabitants of our planet. We all have to rethink our own position and prospects with respect to these new degrees of freedom. The Coordination Action ENCORA is one of the initiatives targeted to the new era we are entering. It aims at offering facilities to the community of coastal and marine professionals, to exploit the new opportunities for sharing knowledge and experience and for developing new forms of cooperation. It is a bottom-up initiative with free membership, providing its members with new powers to actively contribute to better managing coastal and marine resources, at the local, national, European and global scale. We therefore invite you to participate in 2008 in the initiatives of ENCORA: the national and thematic coastal networks, the Coastal and Marine Wikipedia, the European Action Plan, the coastal and marine Contact Database, the European Contact Search, the FP7 Interest List and the Young Professionals Exchange Programme. In 2008 we want to further expand and strengthen these services. Please visit and contribute to our forums; we need your ideas and we need your drive.  National news in this issue
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  COASTAL WIKI STREAMLINING
 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENTObserving System Requirements for Managing and Mitigating the Impacts of Human Activities and Coastal Inundation in the Mediterranean Region , June 9-13, 2008, Athens, Greece The first regional workshop of the series will focus on the specific needs, challenges and capabilities in the Mediterranean region. The differences in needs and capabilities among the different countries in the Mediterranean, which is a small-scale analogue of the situation that exists at the worldwide scale, make the Mediterranean an excellent (and more manageable) test case. Coastal inundation will be the "glue" that allows treatment of all of the issues mentioned in the prospectus of the Workshop series. Socio-economic issues will remain important in this and subsequent regional workshops (perhaps most important for Africa). Human activities and their impact on susceptibility to coastal flooding is a key issue. The Workshop aims to enlist strong participation from the countries in northern Africa. It will be held in Athens, Greece. OTHER COASTAL AND MARINE EVENTS |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fortsættelse af DANCORE/ENCORA? DANCORE/ENCORA har nu kørt i 2 år. Vi har 164 medlemmer, hjemmeside, e-mail-lister, nyhedsbreve, endnu et år finansieret fra EU - og en meget PASSIV medlemsskare! ! Har DU brug for DANCORE? Hvad vil DU gerne dele med kolleger i Danmark og i EU, og hvad vil du gerne have fra dem? På DANCORE-kontoret og i ENCORA-regi ser man på muligheder for fortsættelse af driften. MEN HVAD MENER MEDLEMMERNE? Har vi alle så travlt i hverdagen, at vi ikke tager os tid til at "net-værke" - eller har vi ikke brug for det - eller er det noget andet, der skal til? Giv din mening til kende i en e-mail til DANCORE-kontoret på office@dancore.dk. Helst straks men før den 6.-8. februar, hvor DANCORE er vært for 44 personer fra 15 andre nationale kystnetværker, og hvor et af emnerne er netværkernes mulige fortsættelse. 5th EuroGOOS Conference - Coastal to Global Operational Oceanography: Achievements and Challenges20-22 May 2008, Exeter, UK Deadline for abstracts: 22 January 2008 Read more / Conference flyer Safecoast/Chain of Safety Conference on Risk Management meets Chrisis Management on Coastal Flooding21-22 May 2008, Scheveningen, the Netherlands Read more 3rd SCACR - International Short Course and Workshop on Applied Coastal Research2-4 June 2008, Lecce, Italy Read more PIANC Mediterranean Days of Coastal and Port Engineering7-9 October 2008, Palermo, Italy Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2008 Read more Post Doc in Morphodynamics Littoral Environments, University of Perpignan, FranceDeadline for applications: 1 April 2008 Read more
|  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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