The Second CoastLab Course is an event promoted by CoastLab Network, the network for small and medium coastal engineering laboratories, with the support of ENCORA Young Professional Exchange Program (YPEP).

This course is designed as a hands-on application-oriented training. It will provide the students with the knowledge necessary to set up a sediment transport simulation in physical model. As far as possible, students will also learn to use laboratory instrumentation.

The Coastal Portal and Coastal Wiki have already proven to be a successful platform for dissemination of knowledge. The supply of articles has exceeded the expectations and led to a demand for an increased level of quality control regarding coherence, completeness, structure, readability, fitness for use, and accessibility.

ENCORA Workshop on

The Wadden Sea Environments – bridging the gap between science, practice & policy
Klappholttal / Sylt, Germany
29. – 31. October 2007

The workshop aims to bridge the gap between decision making, science & practice. The topics of the workshop will be coastal protection and restoration measures against the background of climate change and its consequences in the Wadden Sea environment, with a focus on the planning perspective (20-30 years) while keeping in mind the expected long term development (100 years). 

International Conference of Young Scientists
Current Problems of Rational Exploitation of Natural Resources in Marine Coastal Areas of Ukraine
June 12–14, 2007. Sevastopol – Katsiveli (Ukraine, Crimea)

  Rational Exploitation of Natural Resources supposes both an optimization of the coastal resource exploitation and simultaneous solution of problems of saving environment quality which, in its turn, allows providing for renewal and reproduction of numerous resources in the areas under investigation.

The International Conference of Young Scientists held by the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and its Experimental Branch was devoted to these topical problems. Its main task, besides the information exchange on the results obtained during the latest years among young scientists, post-graduates and students, is to broaden their range of scientific interests by a course of lectures on topical problems in modern oceanography, ecology, climatology, rational exploitation of natural resources. Young scientists from Ukraine, Russia and Byelorussia took part in the conference.
The lectures were given not only by leading scientists of the MHI NASU but also by foreign oceanographers, for instance by a famous specialist in evolution of the Black Sea ecosystems Temel Oguz (Turkey).