Margriet Van Dongen’s Post

"The massive arrival of sargassum on the coasts of the Mexican Caribbean has generated an environmental and socioeconomic crisis. The excess of this seaweed has represented a loss of 11.6% of Quintana Roo’s PIB – around 41 billion Mexican pesos (~2 mld Euro). The Kingdom of the Netherlands has a long tradition in coastal management and marine engineering. With countries in the Kingdom that are being affected by sargassum, such as Curaçao and Sint Maarten, we have developed a strong knowledge foundation. This in combination with impressive innovations for collecting plastics in open water, Mexican stakeholders consider Dutch companies and organizations key players in turning sargassum into an opportunity." via LNV Attaché Netwerk

🤔 Eighteen months have already passed from the PLOTO project. The M18 plenary meeting has just finished in Athen. It was a useful event for summarizing the results achieved so far and considering future tasks. 🔎 Csaba Csiszár and Bálint Csonka summarized our initial plans for the task about the Inland Water Ways (IWW) Resilience Framework. This task will start in the coming months and will be led by the BME. #inlandwaterways #resilience #researchanddevelopment

"The massive arrival of sargassum on the coasts of the Mexican Caribbean has generated an environmental and socioeconomic crisis. The excess of this seaweed has represented a loss of 11.6% of Quintana Roo’s PIB – around 41 billion Mexican pesos (~2 mld Euro). The Kingdom of the Netherlands has a long tradition in coastal management and marine engineering. With countries in the Kingdom that are being affected by sargassum, such as Curaçao and Sint Maarten, we have developed a strong knowledge foundation. This in combination with impressive innovations for collecting plastics in open water, Mexican stakeholders consider Dutch companies and organizations key players in turning sargassum into an opportunity." via LNV Attaché Netwerk

Nice chevron folds developing within the Fonzaso Formation (Oxfordian) in the hangingwall of Belluno Thrust, in the southern Dolomites.

Video from @RTVCes describing the work carried out by @ULL @IGME1849 & the collaboration of @FenixCanarias within the framework of the @NatalieProject project in the pond and aquifer of Maspalomas (Gran Canaria)

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🎉 MNA x Across The Sea (🇮🇹): A brand new international 🤝 collaboration is here! 🙋🏻♀️👩🦰 Aphroditi Sentoukidi , Anastasia-Maria Chrysogianni and Niki Ioanna Togia, MNA Coaches, will provide the participants of this year's event with a unique Workshop on Negotiation Skills and Techniques. ✨This Workshop will be tailor-made to the requirements of the conference Across the Sea 2024 : Our Bond to the Mediterranean, whose theme is ‘’Water management: marine and coastal pollution’’ 🎯 The entire negotiation skills toolkit will help the delegations of 18 countries of the Mediterranean Sea to fruitfully interact throughout the internal procedures of the conference, aiming to fulfill both each country’s interests and the mutual interests and reach mutually beneficial agreements, by drafting and accepting the Final Manifesto. 🌊 We truly hope that our new partnership will set a productive basis of the next negotiators’ generation by solving numerous crucial issues of the Mediterranean Sea! #negotiationskills #negotiationtechniques #crosscultural #empowerment #mediterranean #youthdevelopment #youthnegotiators

Different perspectives on 1948 commemoration in the Middle East

Just informed that our great team of legal experts, with whom I had the pleasure of working with 3 years ago to recommend several Mangrove Reserves to the government will lead the efforts to develop a legal-regulatory framework to maintain and increase the resilience of Mangal ecosystems (this term is far more realistic and functional, as it also includes the brackish and freshwater wetland "sponges" that maintain healthy soil conditions for the mangrove "trees" to thrive) in areas like this spectacular 1000 Km2 area along the border with Venezuela, of which we proposed a 600Km2++ reserve ...https://lnkd.in/dJNKev3a

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