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ACT4LITTER in full swing – Combating marine litter in Mediterranean MPAs
Just few months after the ACT4LITTER kick-off and all project activities are in full swing! An initial list of measures aiming to tackle marine litter in Mediterranean MPAs has been developed and will be shared with MPA managers and marine litter experts in order to...
“Days of the Lake” movie screening on the occasion of World Environment Day 2017
On the occasion of the World Environment Day 2017, MIO-ECSDE and MEdIES, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair and Network on Sustainable Development Management and Education in the Mediterranean of the University of Athens, the Social Cooperative Enterprise EKFRASI,...
MIO-ECSDE hosts a collective learning event on enabling civil society participation in biodiversity conservation around the globe
MIO-ECSDE had the honor and pleasure to host the meeting of Secretariat and Regional Implementation Team members of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in Athens, Greece, from 16-19 May 2017. They met to share their lessons learned on enabling civil society...
July Summer School on Biosphere Reserves: register now!
Are you a junior officer in a Biosphere Reserve (BR) of the MAB/UNESCO programme of a European or Mediterranean country? Or, have you recently graduated from a relevant university discipline and wish to be further trained on Integrated Management Approaches within a...
Med Civil Society & and the region’s new ‘Water Agenda’
The Ministers and other Heads of Delegations attending the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Meeting on Water in Malta on 27 April 2017 agreed on a new 'Water Agenda' for the region. MIO-ECSDE Treasurer, Vincent Attard of Nature Trust Malta (President)...
MIO-ECSDE feeds into the CORMON discussions on marine litter monitoring
MIO-ECSDE Programme Officer Thomais Vlachogianni was one of the invited speakers at the 2-day meeting of the Ecosystem Approach Correspondence Group on Marine Litter Monitoring (CORMON) held in Madrid from 28 February to 1 March 2017. She presented the accumulated...