News & Events

Early September, COASTAL hosted a session at the bi-annual iEMSs conference of the Environmental Modelling and Software Society, this year organized by the Free University of Brussels - VUB in a digital format. The goal of session A3 – bringing local and expert knowledge together - was to explore the opportunities and difficulties of bringing local and expert knowledge together, with a special focus on the application of system dynamics modelling. Different researchers (both from within and outside our consortium) presented their view on this theme, followed by a discussion on how we can improve the combination of both types of expertise.

The sustainable development of the Mar Menor coastal lagoon (SE Spain) depends strongly on the balance and interactions between inland agriculture, coastal tourism, salt pans and fisheries. The need to move towards sustainable modes of agriculture and tourism is increasingly recognized and recently revived strongly due to sudden increase in contamination levels resulting in a strong drop in tourism. Model-based holistic assessments can help identify potential solutions that consider the impacts on all sectors involved.

On July 3 2020, Jean-Luc gave an interview on a topic concerning the impact of land-use change, modelled with the VITO Ruimtemodel, on coastal campings near the coastal town of Bredene, a tourist resort along the Belgian coast.  These campings have an important social function for less wealthy tourists who cannot afford to buy an apartment or book a hotel room.  Under some scenarios, these campings could disappear due to ongoing urbanization. 

Below you can watch the full interview and read the transcript in English.

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We are very pleased to inform you that we have just released the 3rd issue of the COASTAL Project Newsletter. You may access and browse or download the PDF version here.

Date: 2-3 June 2020

Venue: Jastarnia, Hel Peninsula, Poland (held online)

Date: 4-8 May 2020 Venue: Vienna, Austria (held online)

We are really excited to announce that COASTAL is among the projects which have won the #EUinmyregion photo competition and it has been selected to receive 300 postcards for dissemination purposes!

We look forward to disseminating the postcards!

„#EUinmyregion is a co-created communication campaign that aims to increase the visibility of EU-funded projects across Europe. Using the communication tools and support, managing authorities and project beneficiaries are invited to engage with citizens to show what they achieve together with the EU in the region.”

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We are very proud that COASTAL project has been featured on CORDIS_EU's official Twitter account! On EU Research Results you can find interesting up-to-date news and information on EU-funded research projects & results.

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Icre8 had the pleasure to welcome Work Package (WP) leaders and multi actor laboratories (MALs) leaders in Athens on the 18^th and 19^th of February.