International Biodiversity Day

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 …

Empowering Mediterranean communities with ecosystem-based management tools

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 …

ETC-UMA features biodiversity protection at Made in Med

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 …

World Water Day

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 …

Building synergies towards biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean

Invited by the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, the European Topic Centre – University of Malaga presented the Interreg Med project PANACeA encompassing a community of eleven projects tackling biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean during the 9th Horizon 2020 Steering Committee meeting and the Task Force on Environment and Climate Change held on 29 and 30 January 2018 …

A holistic approach to Mediterranean resources

The Mediterranean is considered a biodiversity hotspot that has long been shared among more than 20 different countries and economic interests, with tourism, fisheries and agriculture at the centre of its economy.

Supporting workflows towards Mediterranean Sustainable Development indicators

Regional work in the Mediterranean and the possibilities of implementation in the Arab Countries have been the topic of the ETC-UMA contribution to the Consultative Meeting on the Implementation Framework for the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda in the Arab Region held in Cairo, Egypt, on 18-21 September 2017. The availability and standardization of regional and national data from …

From spatial data to local challenges; addressing biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean

From 11 to 14 September 2017, the European Topic Centre of the University of Malaga (ETC-UMA) represented by Ameer Abdulla, Senior Advisor to the PANACeA Working Group on Protected Area Management, attended the Mediterranean conference organized in Malta by the Life Bahar for N2K project. For this occasion, examples of the Emerging Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Marine Biodiversity and …

El primer mapa digital europeo de la biodiversidad del suelo

La Fundación Descubre ha publicado una noticia relacionada con el Mapa Europeo de Biodiversidad del Suelo generado por los investigadores del ETC-UMA. Además, la emisora Onda Local de Andalucía se ha interesado por los resultados de este estudio y ha realizado una entrevista telefónica a Christoph Schröder en representación del equipo de trabajo del centro. Puedes acceder a la noticia …