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Saturday, 15th November to Sunday, 23 rd November 2008 / Olympiada - Chalkidiki

“Balkanvision” - a training course on Intercultural Dialogue (Action 3 - Youth in the world / 3.1 - Cooperation with Neighbouring Partner Countries / Training and Networking / GR-31-38-2008-R3 & 3.1.2/R3/2008/7)

Participants

Ivana Vitovskiv & Matija Polančec / Croatia - Croatian Youth Hostel Association (info: http://www.hfhs.hr/)

Dejan Neshevski & Zoran Dimitrovski / F.Y.R.O.M. - Intercultural Dialogue Center (info: http://www.cid-mk.org/)

Irina Janevska & Nenad Velkovski / F.Y.R.O.M. (info: http://www.youthpeer.org.mk/)

Natalia Todorova Bojanova, Lora Liudmilova Georgieva & Viktoria Milenova Mihova / Bulgaria - International Initiatives for Cooperation (info: http://www.iic-bg.org/)
Jelena Cebic & Vildana Devic, Bosnia & Herzegovina - SPOT

Paunescu Beatrice-Roxana & Tomoescu Ion Alin / Romania - Youth of XXI-th Century

Aleksandar Banjanac / Serbia – Balkan IDEA Novi Sad

Marina Stojadinovic / Serbia - Young Researchers of Serbia (info: http://www.mis.org.yu/)

Olga Fylaktaki, Anestis Kariofilidis & Giorgos Koutsokostas / Greece – United Societies of Balkan (info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/)

Trainers
Daniela lovric / Croatia - Youth Centre for non-formal education (info: http://www.cnc.hr/)
Jelena Mocevic / Bosnia & Herzegovina - SPOT

Nevena Gojkovic / Serbia - Ethnicity Research Center

United Societies of Balkan staff

Aristodimos Paraschou, Efi Simiakaki, Giorgos Lambrakis & Christina Kontaxi (info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/)

more info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/

Thursday, 30 October / EKBY - Thessaloniki

The announcement :

‘ In the frame of the three-year ‘Action plan on management issues of Natural Environment’ and more specifically in the frame of Action ‘Training Program’ of the Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works, the realization of which has been undertaken by the Greek Biotope / Wetland Centre (Goulandris Natural History Museum), the seminar ‘Environmental Licensing in Protected Areas’ was held on the 30th of October 2008 in the building of the Greek Biotope / Wetland Centre in Thessaloniki. The aim of the seminar is the briefing of executives of services of administration in subjects that concern the environmental licensing in protected areas, aiming at the formulation of in common criteria to encounter. Participants would be executives of administration of whom the work is related directly or indirectly with the environmental licensing. ’

The programme:

- Environmental Licensing in Natura 2000 areas /Stavroula Vanikioti, Management of Natural Environment Department - Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works

Specifications and processes for the approval of Environmental Impact Assessments & Estimation of impacts for tourism installations / Rebeka Mpatmanogloy, General Environmental Issues Department - Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works

Special Spatial Planning for Industry / Lena Karka, Spatial Planning Department - Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works

Estimate of impacts from hydroelectric dams / M. Koutrakis, Fisheries Research Institute - National Agricultural Research Foundation

Estimate of impacts in the environment from road works and compensatory measures & Protection of the wild fauna in the frame of manufacture and operation of road works / Thalia Valkoyma, EGNATIA ROAD S.A.

My question had to do with the SPA ‘DELTA AXIOU-LOUDIA-ALIAKMONA-ALYKI KITROUS’ that includes the wetland of Kalochori, a region in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki.

a) Stavroula Vanikioti said that the Ministry has sent the list of the Hellenic SPA’s to the European Union and that there will be an adoption of them as has already happened with the Commission’s Decision of 19 July 2006 adopting, pursuant to Council Directive 92/43/EEC, the list of sites of Community importance for the Mediterranean biogeographical region [Official Journal of the European Union L 259/1, 21.9.2006, pp.1–104]

b) As a reply to my saying that at this time the region is planned to be part of the General Town Planning both Rebeka Mpatmanogloy & Lena Karka said that this can happen.

After all it was just a training programme ... to formulate common criteria for the encounter of problems related to environmental licencing in protected areas ...
* more info: http://www.ekby.gr/ekby/el/EKBY_News_Announcements_el.html

Monday, 6 October to Wednesday, 8 October 2008, Bitola and surrounding areas / FYROM

Arrive late Monday evening to contribute in what was formally called: ‘LEARNING PARTNERSHIP – FROM REGION TO REGION – PART II’. A visit to the neighbouring country after an invitation from BIOSFERA BITOLA (info: http://www.biosfera.org.mk) and my friend Neshad.

My stay there had everything: small sightseeing in Bitola, Meeting with Emilia Dimitrovska, PR of the Municipality of Bitola (info: http://www.bitola.gov.mk), visit to Prespa and have lunch in Professor’s house, go along the west side of the big lake Prespa, visit St. Naum, visit the Ohrid region and lake, walk around Volvox and speak about many wonderful ideas for cooperation along with the German colleagues, Ludmila Wieczorek (http://www.loki-schmidt-stiftung.de/), Heike Markus Michalczyk (http://www.naturundumwelt.info/) and Silvia Schubert (www.anu-hamburg.de/).

The call is open for cooperation!

The photos are a courtesy of Ludmila Wieczorek

Tuesday, 23 September to Saturday, 4 October 2008 / Nord-Ostsee Deutschland

Summer School: ‘Coastal Seas under Pressure’ - http://coast.gkss.de/events/summerschool08/index.html

PART I - Tuesday, 23 September to Saturday, 27 September / Lauenburg – Germany

…at Die Jugendherberge Lauenburg: http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/lauenburg-zuendholzfabrik

23/9 Arrival / Goetz Floser, GKSS ‘Welcome in Lauenburg’

24/9 Geology Day

Kay – Christian Emeis, UH – Institute fur Biogeochemie und Meereschemie & ZMAW ‘A short (?) and eventful history of the Baltic Sea’

Self-presentation of students I

Paul Overduin, AWI ‘Reactions of the Arctic Coast to Climate Change’

Jeremy Lloyd, UD ‘Climate Change signals in Arctic Sediments’

25/9 Physical Oceanography Day

Friedhelm Schroeder, GKSS ‘Ferry Box’*

Friedwart Ziemer, GKSS ‘Radar for Current and Seastate measurements’

Wolfgang Schonfeld, GKSS ‘Remote Sensing of coastal waters’

Goetz Floser, GKSS ‘Tour through GKSS’

Canoeing at Elbe River

* http://ferrydata.gkss.de/

26/9 Chemical and Oil Pollution in Coastal and Marine Systems Day

Ralf Ebinghaus, GKSS ‘The problem of persistent pollution - introduction and experimental approaches’

Armin Aulinger, GKSS ‘The problem of persistent pollution - statistical and modeling approaches’

Detlef Schulz-Bull, IOW ‘Chemical Pollutants in the Baltic Sea, occurrence and distribution’

Doris Schiedek, NERI ‘Oil and Gas in the Arctic’*

Veronika Hellwig, GKSS ‘Impact of contaminants on marine mammals’

Evening concert: IRISH FOLK Tom Monaghan, Helena Floser

* Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme / Arctic Council – Oil & Gas Assessment: http://www.amap.no/oga/

PART II - Saturday, 27 September to Saturday, 4 October / Büsum – Germany

Settled at Haus Möwenschrei: http://www.haus-moewenschrei.de/

Having dinner at Die Jugendherberge Buesum http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/buesum (avoid it!)

Bicycling (^) everyday…

27/9 Visit to Multimar Wattforum, Tonning http://www.multimar-wattforum.de/

28/9 Terp et al. Day

Dirk Meyer, FTZ ‘Büsumer Freilicht-Deichmuseum* & settlement history of Dithmarschen’

Klaus Ricklefs, FTZ ‘Trip to Friedrichstadt Eidersperrwerk, Tonning’

* http://www.buesum.de/themen/buesummaritim/buesumerfreilichtdeichmuseum/index.php

29/9 Energy Day (Klaus Vanselow, FTZ - Klaus Ricklefs, FTZ & Goetz Floser, GKSS)

Visit to WIND TEST Company

Visit to RWE DEA*

Visit to Seehundstation Friedrichskoog**

*RWE DEA - Dieksand Land Station http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/mittelplate/landstation-dieksand/language=en/id=604816/landstation-dieksand.html

**Seehundstation Friedrichskoog http://www.seehundstation-friedrichskoog.de/

30/9 Nutrients & Biology Day

Justus van Beusekom, AWI ‘Decadal changes in nutrient supply and primary production in the North and Wadden Sea’

Günther Nausch, IOW ‘Nutrient concentrations, trends and their relation to eutrophication in the Baltic Sea’*

Ulrich Bathmann, AWI ‘Ecosystem shifts in Polar Regions due to climate change’

Self-presentation of students II

* State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005: A Detailed 50-Year Survey of Meteorology and Climate, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Marine Environment (http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471979686.html)

01/10 Biology in the North & Baltic Sea Day

Ragnhild Asmus, AWI ‘Ecosystems in the Coastal Zone - global and regional aspects’

Andreas Baer, UK ‘Aquaculture’

Klaus Ricklefs, FTZ ‘Geological History of the Wadden Sea’

Visit to Sudfall – FTZ Research vessel

02/10 Ecosystem Modelling Day

Carole Lebreton, GKSS ‘Ecosystem Modelling: Basics’

Carole Lebreton, GKSS ‘Ecological Modelling: Exercises’*

Jian Su, GKSS ‘Optimizing coastal ecosystem models: a case study in the German Bight’

Hermann Lenhart, ZMAW Hamburg ‘The European Regional Seas ecosystem model (ERSEM)’

Wilfried Kuhn, ZMAW Hamburg ‘Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in the North Sea – a study using the ecosystem model ECOHAM’

Hermann Lenhart, ZMAW Hamburg ‘Ecosystem Modelling in Relation to Eutrophication’

Wilfried Kuhn, ZMAW Hamburg ‘Modelling Larvae Growth and Dispersion’

* Scilab: http://www.scilab.org/

03/10

Goetz Floser, GKSS – GKSS ICON: Integrated Coastal Observational Network*

Stefanie Maack, IOW ‘ICZM role play’

Barbecue and goodbye party

* http://www.coastlab.org/

04/10 Departure

We: Jay Anand, Sajmir Beqiraj, Jan Busch, Sami Domisch, Daniela Henkel, Magdalene Kempa, Roberta Malavenda, Nima Moin, Christina Müller, Corneila Plagge, Rajesh Kumar Ranjan, Cem Senduran, Alessio Soria, Nadeshda Tondorova, Ingo Weinberg, Christina Kontaxi

Abbreviations:

GKSS - GKSS Research Centre (info: http://www.gkss.de)

FTZ - Research and Technology Centre Westcoast (info: http://www.uni-kiel.de/ftzwest/)

AWI - Alfred-Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research (info: http://www.awi.de/)

IOW - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde / Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (info: http://www.io-warnemuende.de/)

NERI / DMU - Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser (info: http://www.dmu.dk/)

ZMAW - Zentrum für Marine und Atmosphärische Wissenschaften (info: http://www.zmaw.de/)

UH –Hamburg University (info: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/)

UK – University Kiel (info: http://www.uni-kiel.de/)

UD - Durham University - UK (info: http://www.dur.ac.uk/)

Wednesday, 10 September to Sunday, 14 September 2008, Lebanon

2nd Encounter of Euro-Mediterranean Youth in Lebanon “Environment in a Global Frameset” The Encounter was organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Platform – Lebanon (info: www.euromedplatform.org ), the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) – Lebanon (info: http://www.feslb.org/ ) and the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO – ECSDE) (info: http://www.mio-ecsde.org/ )

In brief:

- - - Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Mr. Georges Abi Saleh, Representative of Euro-Med Platform – Lebanon
Mr. Samir Farah, Representative of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung – Lebanon
Mr. Patrick Laurent, EU Ambassador in Lebanon
Mr. Antoine Karam, Minister of Environment – Lebanon
Keynote Presentations ‘The Mediterranean Environment: Status and Challenges”
Mrs. Barbara Tomassini, Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO – ECSDE)
Mr. Habib Maalouf, Lebanese Association for Environment and Development (LAED)

- - - Thursday, 11 September 2008

Mr. Joe Haddad - Presentation of participants and ice breaking games
Dr. Chafic Choueib, Lebanese University - Concepts and frameworks of sustainable development
Mrs. Carol Chouchany Cherfane, Economic and Social Commission of West Asia (ESCWA) - Promotion of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Euro-Med region: policies and institutions (info: http://www.escwa.un.org/)
Mrs. Morgan Strecker, UNEP/DTIE - Youth Training Kit by UNEP/DTIE: YouthXchange (focus on energy, waste, water, and fair trade) (info: http://www.youthxchange.net/)
Mr. Salman Abbas, NGO advocacy and lobbying on environmental issues

- - - Friday, 12 September 2008

Dr. Nicolas Efstathiadis, SENSE - Forest fires and sustainable forest management (info: http://www.sense.org.gr/)
Mrs. Kinda Mohamadieh, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) - Trade and environment (info: http://www.annd.org/)
Mr. Hassan Jaber, NGO - ALMEE - Climate change and renewable energies
Mr. Habib Maalouf, LAED & Mrs. Christina Kontaxi, MIO-ECSDE - The Mediterranean Sea; preservation of the marine and coastal environment

Role Play (1): Mrs. Iro Alampei, Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO – ECSDE)
Role Play (2): Mrs. Kinda Mohammadieh, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)

- - - Saturday, 13 September 2008

Visit to Eco-village (info: http://www.ecoecovillage.com/)
At National Public Library in Baakleen:
Mr. Pascal Abdallah, Responsible Mobility - Eco-tourism project/ campaign (info: search up on facebook…)
Mr. Nizar Hani, LMT Association - Lebanon Mountain Trail (LMT) project (info: http://www.lebanontrail.org/)

- - - Sunday, 14 September 2008

Mr. Samir Farah, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) & Mr. Ziad Abdel Samad, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Evaluation and Recommendations for follow-up activities

In total 41 youth from 11 Mediterranean countries and 29 organizations, NGO’s etc. participated:

1. Lebanese Association for Human Rights, Lebanon (info:

http://www.aldhom.org/ )
2. Lebanese Family Planning Association, Lebanon (info: http://www.lfpa.org.lb/ )
3. Lebyouth, Lebanon (info: http://www.lebyouth.net/ )
4. Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering, Lebanon
5. Amel Association, Lebanon (info: http://www.amel.org.lb/ )
6. Progressive Youth Organization, Lebanon
7. Lebanese association for democratic election (LADE), Lebanon (info: http://www.ladeleb.org/)
8. Lebanese Red Cross/Youth Department/Environmental Program Lebanon (info: http://www.redcross.org.lb/)
9. Cultural Movement Antelias, Lebanon (info: http://www.mcaleb.org/ )
10. Association Libanaise pour l'Education et la Formation (ALEF), Lebanon
11. Lebanese Committee for Environment and Development, Lebanon
12. Union of Progressive Women, Lebanon
13. Norwegian People’s Aid, Lebanon (info: http://www.npalebanon.org/)
14. Health Work Committees, Palestine (info: http://www.hwc-pal.org/)
15. Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), Palestine (info: http://www.pngo.net/)
16. Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Egypt (info: http://www.cihrs.org/)
17. Moroccan Association for Youth and Development, Morocco
18. Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Morocco (info: http://www.isesco.org.ma/)

19. CARE International Jordan (info: http://www.care-international.org/)
20. Association des Femmes pour la Recherche et le Développement - AFTURD, Tunisia
21. IMED - Istituto per il Mediterraneo, Italy (info: http://www.imednet.it/)
22. ECO, Italy
23. Centre for the Cooperation in the Mediterranean – The Permanent Office of the Mediterranean Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Spain (info: http://www.mediterraneumrc.org/)
24. Les Francas, France (info : http://www.francas.asso.fr/)
25. Solidarité Laïque/Ligue de l’enseignement France (info: http://www.solidarite-laique.asso.fr/)
[La ligue de l'enseignement du Morbihan (info : http://www.laligue-morbihan.org/)]
26. UNESCOCAT, Spain (info: http://www.unescocat.org/)
27. Jusos, Germany (Young Socialists in the SPD, info: http://www.jusos.de/ )
28. Mediterranean SOS Network, Greece (info: http://www.medsos.gr) 29. Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and sustainable Development, Greece (info: http://www.mio-ecsde.org/ )

The photos are a courtesy of Barbara Tomassini

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 International Youth Day

International Youth Day 2008: - YOUTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TIME FOR ACTION

12th of August is considered an International Youth Day since 2000. On 17 December 1999 the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August be declared International Youth Day.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon closes his message for the International Youth Day with the following: “On this International Youth Day, I urge young people around the world to invest their energies and bright ideas into shaping a safer, more sustainable planet”.

Todays, European Youth Forum (YFJ) press release was entitled: ‘International Youth Day Climate change: the clock is ticking’. Bettina Schwarzmayr, President of the European Youth Forum noted – among others - that “Climate change is a clear example of how the well-being of younger generations is being compromised by the lifestyles of prior generations”.

More info:
United Nations: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/iyouthday.htm
European Youth Forum - 12 August 2008 press release