During the European Week of Regions and Cities 2018 in Brussels, former and current Interreg Volunteers held the workshop “Cross-Border creativity: new ways to communicate Interreg”. Cristina presented the project LiveLagoons and showed how another former IVY volunteer Mikel Lander … Continued
The LiveLagoons project was presented at the biggest protected areas professionals’ event in Europe! The annual EUROPARC federation conference this year was organized in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. More than 600 participants from 32 countries came together to … Continued
At the end of the growing season the plants of the “living barrier” pilot installation in Nida, Curonian lagoon, were harvested and are now in the laboratory for nutrient analysis. Surprising was the large amount of zebra mussels attached to … Continued
Sales manager and representatives of engineering department of Garant Service Ltd meets the LiveLagoons project work-group and technology transfer managers at Marine Research Institute in Klaipeda, Lithuania. This is the first Business-to-Business meeting for further development and commercialization of ‚Living … Continued
Yesterday we took the floating islands out of the water in order to harvest the plant. And what a surprise: More than eight eels were hiding inside the small islands made out of natural reed stems! They seem to love … Continued
This summer, EUCC-D publishes another issue of the magazine „Meer & Küste“ (Sea & Coast), which is now available along the German Baltic Sea coast. The current 36 page issue deals with the topic of water quality and the manifold … Continued
What wonderful and creative ideas come up when you mix people with different research backgrounds! Scientists from the IOW, the University of Rostock, BUND and EUCC-D discussed how floating wetland design could be ameliorated regarding sustainability and durability or which … Continued
We have a frequent visitor on our island 🙂 Every morning the gray heron comes along. You can also observe how dragonflies, shrimp and fish use the floating wetlands as habitats. Macrophyte islands do not only offer a chance for … Continued
Gintare Miklovyte (Student in Ecology and Environmental Science at Klaipeda University) joined the LiveLagoons project activities to collect material for her coursework on plant growth and nutrient accumulation on artificial substrates in the Curonian Lagoon. She is collecting reed at … Continued
Without the help of our wonderful volunteers and trainees that come with the Interreg Volunteer Youth – IVY program or the IMBRSea Master program to us it would have been so much harder to install the floating wetlands in Born . … Continued