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CONTRA featured at COASTAL Biogas 4th Conference
On December 9th, 2020 the “Biogas and digestate from cast seaweed – regulations and policies – COASTAL Biogas 4th conference” of our sister project COASTAL Biogas took place in form of an online conference. On this occasion, Jane Hofmann (EUCC-D, Die Küsten Union Deutschland e.V.) presented the CONTRA project and was also involved in the […]
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Review – Linnaeus ECO-TECH ’20 and CONTRA session
Eco-Tech is calling on researchers and industry to work together to ensure benefits from a rapidly expanding society were students will work with professional scientists and become scientist themselves by observing and recoding real-life data. The plan calls for action on promoting closer partnerships between industry and the research sector to ensure the Baltic region […]
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Community building and networking in the Baltic Bioeconomy
On Wednesday, 2 December 2020 the event “Beach Wrack in the Bioeconomy” was arranged by the CONTRA partner Krinova Incubator and Science Park. Over 60 attendees had joined the event eager to build their network, get up-to-date information on Beach Wrack issues and start new collaborations. The event was nicely framed by Jessica Hjerpe Olausson […]
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CONTRA article published in the journal “Ocean and Coastal Management”
We are pleased to announce that the article ‘Converting beach wrack into a resource as a challenge for the Baltic Sea (an overview)’ (B. Chubarenko et al., 2020) has finally been published. The paper discusses research questions related to beach wrack management and economically viable uses. It presents beach wrack recycling examples from Denmark (Køge […]
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Linnaeus ECO-TECH ’20 – Book of abstracts available
On 23 – 25 November 2020 the “12th International conference on establishment of cooperation between companies and institutions in the Nordic countries, the Baltic Sea region and the world”, organised by Linnaeus University (Kalmar, Sweden), took place. Among others, a session about beach wrack was organised with participation from selected CONTRA partners. More information about […]
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Register now for the CONTRA Networking Event “Beach Wrack in the Bioeconomy”!
We hope you will join us for the “Beach Wrack in the Bioeconomy” event, which we will hold on the 2 December 2020, 13:00-16:00 CET. Look at the agenda of the event for more details on the programme and register here.
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Legal issues surrounding beach wrack management a topic for discussion
On October 13, 2020, German CONTRA partners EUCC-D and Hanseatische Umwelt GmbH took part in a working visit to the Baltic Sea Island of Poel near Wismar to discuss, amongst other things, the work being done to address the legal challenges surrounding beach wrack management. Also joining the meeting were the MEP Mr. Niklas Nienaß […]
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Beach Wrack Compost to Mitigate Methane Emissions?
CONTRA project partner, the University of Southern Denmark has started a trial to test if compost made out of beach wrack can be used to mitigate methane emissions. This is a part of the CONTRA case study in Køge Municipality looking to see if beach wrack compost can be used as a ‘biocover’ on old […]
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The Effect of Mechanical Beach Cleaning on Wildlife
The University of Rostock has been researching the impact that mechanical beach cleaning has on local wildlife, particularly coastal birds. Four different managed beaches along the German Baltic Sea coast (Zingst peninsula, Warnemünde, Poel Island and Scharbeutz) were compared with unmanaged areas and a reference area, the nature reserve Langenwerder Island. A general quantification of […]
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CONTRA research activities on German television
As reported earlier, students of the University of Rostock has been researching the impact that mechanical beach cleaning has on local wildlife, particularly coastal birds along the German Baltic Sea coast. Activities were filmed and are now shown on German television as part of the NDR programme “Landpartie” (German language, min. 37:30).
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