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).

ENCORA conference on

EUROPEAN ACTION PLANS

Key issues for advancing Sustainable Management of our Coastal Zones
Paris, 5-7 December 2007

Basic research of the major problems of natural sciences on the basis of integration processes in education and a science
16th - 24th August 2006
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The Black Sea Branch of the Moscow State University, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Organizers of the conference:
Oceanological Centre (NAS of Ukraine)
Marine Hydrophysical Institute (NAS of Ukraine)
Lomonosov’s Moscow State University (Black Sea Branch)
MHI’s Black Sea Experimental Branch
MHI’s Special designer and technological bureau

The main purpose of the conference was to analyze the current state of the research conducted by the leading scientific institutions of Ukraine and other countries in the field of natural sciences and to show necessary directions for measurements on integration of science and education in order to provide sustainable development of modern society.
The conference, unlike the previous ones, was not just scientific where only scientific problems were discussed. In this case problems existing in higher education were also under consideration. The main task of the conference was to combine main scientific achievements with the educational process, to improve the training level of higher school specialists in nature protection i.e. ecologists, hydrophysicists, marine biologists, climatologists, etc.