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CONTRA Final Conference Documentation
Thank you to all participants of the CONTRA final conference “Converting beach wrack into a resource and asset – towards sustainable solutions for beach wrack use“, 1-2 June…
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How can we use problematic beach wrack in a more sustainable way?
Over the past two and half years, CONTRA has conducted a total of seven case studies in the Baltic Sea Region to further develop knowledge on how it can…
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CONTRA Final Conference – 1-2 June 2021 – REGISTRATION OPEN!
We hope you will join us for the “CONTRA Final Conference” event, which will take place on the 1-2 June 2021 as an online event (free of charge).
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”,…
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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.
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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….
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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…
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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…
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CONTRA and beach wrack in the media
CONTRA project partners Linnaeus University in Sweden as well as University of Rostock and
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Beach wrack residence time successfully monitored by the Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences
Knowledge of the beach wrack residence time on the seashore is an important aspect when it comes to understanding its role in coastal ecosystems and the potential…
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Island of Poel provides fresh beach wrack for composting trials
With the tourists’ return, the municipality Spa Administration on the Island of Poel in northern Germany, has also started to prepare the island’s beaches for the summer season. In the…
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On The Road to Recovery of Organic Waste into a Growth Substrate – Öland, Sweden
Beach wrack refers to the piles of seagrass, reeds, and marine algae that are found alongside beaches worldwide and are most commonly associated with sandy beaches. As…
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CONTRA partners held online meeting on soil improvement products
German and Swedish CONTRA partners KS-VTCtech GmbH, Hanseatische Umwelt, Linnaeus University and Krinova Incubator and Sience Park met online to discuss ways of making soil improvement products from beach…
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CONTRA online partner meeting mastered
Due to the current challenging situation, CONTRA has conducted its partner meeting on the 25th and 26th of March online via video-conferencing instead of meeting in person in Odense,…
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Beach wrack as an inspiration for the development of subsequent water projects
On the 12-13th of February, 2020, stakeholders from the Euroregion Baltic Water Core Group, Polish partners, as well as other partners from the CONTRA and Umbrella project convened…
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CONTRA partners contribute to Coastline Reports
The Coastline Reports is a journal that serves the dissemination of project and conference results with a focus on coastal management and coastal research. It has been published by…
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Learn more about On-Site Treatment with Reed Beds Towards Fertilizer Amendments
Project partner, Gdańsk University of Technology (Department Water and Waste-Water Technology, Faculty of Civil And Environmental Engineering) prepared a paper on “Solving the Beach Wrack Problems by On-Site Treatment…
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“Fertiwrack case study” takes a leap forward
As one of the major pillars of the CONTRA project a total of seven case studies are conducted to further develop existing reuse options and to explore new and…
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Beach wrack – a problem shared is a problem halved
On 21 October 2019, stakeholders from the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (M-V) and Schleswig-Holstein (S-H) came together in Lübeck-Travemünde for a joint symposium on beach wrack management….
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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,…
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