ETC-UMA – Malaga, December 2018 – The European Topic Centre of the University of Malaga has led two days of international debate in Brussels on the latest advances in environmental science and related tools for managing and protecting Mediterranean natural resources to policy makers as effective solutions at various levels. The need for a common and integrated approach to tackle …
Given their biogeographical isolation and high resource dependence, social and ecological island communities are more vulnerable to natural and human impacts than continental communities. This was the main message of ETC-UMA Director, Dania Abdul Malak, during her presentation at the workshop on Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in Islands organized by the EU MSP Platform on 11 September 2018 in Las …
El Centro Temático Europeo de la Universidad de Málaga se reunió el pasado marzo con investigadores y gestores de recursos naturales de Andalucía para entablar un diálogo e intercambiar impresiones sobre los proyectos y necesidades de investigación ambientales referentes a la región. La organización y participación en el taller celebrado en las oficinas de la Consejería de Medio Ambiente y …
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become key elements in all national sustainability policy areas and relevant to all scales from global to local. Monitoring and reporting on the SDGs are fundamental tasks to measure national progress on reaching global targets and to identify challenges and solutions to achieving these . As an integral part of its mission, the Economic …
El pasado sábado 26 de mayo, el ETC – UMA colaboró, junto a un centenar de voluntarios de asociaciones de vecinos, Smart Campus UMA, Asociación Universitaria de Actividades Subacuáticas, Aula del Mar, Protección Civil, Policía Local, Campus de Excelencia Internacional del Mar CEIMAR, Fundación Unicaja, asociación “Málaga como te quiero”, WWF, Cruz Roja, Grupo Especial de Actividades Subacuáticas de la …
Biodiversity is made of interconnected species and spaces which know of no boundaries; it can be found all around us conforming unique ecosystems supporting nature and people across countries and the seas. In the Mediterranean, with more than 21 countries sharing the same natural resources and threatened by increasing global changes and pollution, transboundary cooperation reveals itself as a must …
An open seminar and a hands-on workshop to foster cooperation and integration of efforts for Biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean will take place in Podgorica, Montenegro from 16 to 18 May 2018. The ETC-UMA, leading partner of the Interreg Med PANACeA project featuring a community of 11 projects, is co-organising with the Regional Environmental Centre of Montenegro, MedCities, UN Environment …
The director of ETC-UMA, Ms Dania Abdul Malak, will be introducing the work of the Interreg Med project PANACeA, an umbrella initiative for 11 biodiversity protection projects currently operational to an international audience of around 800 people in Rome, Italy on 18 and 19 April 2018. Built on the concept of Fablab: “Fabrication Laboratory”, the MADE in MED event will …
La UMA se abre a los estudiantes de primaria para dar a conocer de primera mano algunas de las actividades de investigación de la Universidad de Málaga basadas en el análisis de las imágenes de satélite, datos geoespaciales y el análisis del suelo y del agua subterránea. El principal objetivo de la iniciativa es proporcionar a los colegios la posibilidad …
Every drop of water is on an endless journey through the sky, the soil and streams…through our lives…and back into nature. In many places, our environment is damaged, leaving us with polluted water or no water at all. Nature is green infrastructure. A system supplying us with the water we need to survive and thrive. Healthy forests and fields prevent soil and chemicals …
