MEDCOAST Jubilee Workshop
Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas
MEDCOAST Jubilee Workshop
27 – 29 May 2015, Dalyan - Mugla, Turkey
INVITATION
MEDCOAST was initiated as a Euro-Mediterranean Network of Academic and Professional Institutions in 1990 with the aim of providing the support of the scientific community for developing and enhancing integrated coastal management practices in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea countries. When MEDCOAST organised the First International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment in November 1993, it was one of the first conferences of its kind in the whole world. The MEDCOAST Institute 94: The First International Training Workshop on Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, organised the next year in August/September with the project funds from the Med-Campus scheme of the EU Med-Programmes, was among the earliest efforts on regional human capacity development for ICM. MEDCOAST has continued scientific activities for supporting ICM in the Mediterranean and Black Sea countries very regularly since those early years.
The bi-annual conference series on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, organised in the months of either October or November of the odd-numbered years, became a well-established and recognised conference series dealing with all aspects of coastal and marine management. The 12th edition of the series will be organised in Varna, Bulgaria during 6-10 October 2015. Eleven events of this conference series and other scientific meetings organised with the acronym of MEDCOAST over 21 years produced 32 volumes of proceedings that add up to the total of 18 600 pages. The proceedings, which we will be made available for open-access in the near future, constitute a very important source providing a wealth of information on coastal and marine issues in general and for the Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas in particular. MEDCOAST proceedings have been covered since 2005 by the leading conference proceedings indexes such as Thomson Reuters and Scopus/Compendex.
The tenth MEDCOAST Institute was organised during 26 August – 11 September 2014, adding ten new people to our distinguished list of alumni and increasing the total number to 165 individuals representing 27 countries. We are proud with the long and successful record of MEDCOAST Institutes. When we held the last institute in 2014, it was by far the longest running (1994 – 2014) ICM training worldwide. With the tenth Institute – the jubilee event, we decided to end this classical series, which aimed to give a general understanding of ICM and a vision that would positively contribute to the future carriers of the participants. We have been extremely lucky to have highly resourceful people participating at the past ten MEDCOAST Institutes and have been proud to witness the fine work that some of our alumni have carried out at international or national levels for further advancing ICM over the Mediterranean and the Black Sea basins. Needless to say that the success of the MEDCOAST Institute series is due to the voluntary contributions of several leading scientists and professionals who devotedly contributed to this event as lecturers and tutors, some throughout the whole history of the Institute! We will definitely continue the international training offered by MEDCOAST with different goals and formats.
In addition to the above flagship events, MEDCOAST has taken responsibilities for leading and taking part in regional research and development projects for the Mediterranean and the Blacks Sea, for serving as a regional information centre for coastal and marine issues and for providing expert contributions to the regional policies and programs.
MEDCOAST events have been organised by the Mediterranean Coastal Foundation (Akdeniz Kiyi Vakfi) since it was officially established in September 2007. MEDCOAST, as network or foundation, has always been truly scientific, independent and non-profit NGO, and has not received funding from any institution on a regular basis. The long history of MEDCOAST extending over almost 25 years is basically due to the valuable and successful events that have been organised and the networking function that has been assumed for enhancing ICM in the Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas.
One aim of the present workshop is to review the past and present activities and practices in the field of integrated coastal management in the Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas in parallel to the past MEDCOAST activities. The more significant aim is to make future projections for both the probable regional developments, piercing issues that will require attention, and the regional needs to address these developments and issues; and the future of MEDCOAST as a regional institution for better contributing to coastal and marine management and conservation.
The first two days (26-27 May) of the workshop program will be devoted to scientific and non-scientific presentations and brain storming sessions. A field trip will be organised on May 28, Friday. Presentation in the workshop will be very selective and by invitation. Participants who wish to make an oral presentation at the Workshop are urged to send their maximum one-page abstract by e-mail to [email protected]. The deadline for proposing an oral presentation is 30 April 2015. It is planned to produce a special issue of a leading coastal and marine scientific journal by using selected presentations.
Important dates:
30 April 2015: Deadline for abstracts for oral presentations
30 April 2015: Deadline for sending the participation form.
15 May 2015: Deadline for sending the flight information
Important:
Participation at the Workshop is free-of-registration fees and only by approval of the Organising Committee. The accepted participants will enjoy all social activities and airport transfers free of charge. They will need to cover their air-ticket to Dalaman International Airport and the hotel accommodation (expected to be around 250 -300 Euros for 4 nights). Hotel reservation will be handled by the Workshop Organisers for participants who send their flight information by 15 May 2015. The hotel and transfer costs of MEDCOAST Institute alumni and lecturers will be covered by the MEDCOAST Foundation.
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Mediterranean Coastal Foundation (Akdeniz Kıyı Vakfı)
Atatürk Mah. Sulungur Cad. No: 43,Dalyan 48840, Mugla Turkey
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