Summer School Registration

Sustainability science and management for resilient
coastal communities and fishing stocks
November School of the MARE CBHE Erasmus+ project

The Summer School is organised under Erasmus+ CBHE project
«MARE – Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia»

The November school SMART will be run in a hybrid format, with teachers and resources persons mostly present at the school venue in Mazara del Vallo (Italy) and most of the audience participating online. It will include lectures, online discussions and skill training, and two group projects involving the students working at the school venue as well as ones following this online and exploring cases in Malaysia and Vietnam.

The topics the school will explore are:

Resilience of coastal communities – socioeconomic and biophysical drivers, including the trade-offs between the multiple uses of marine and coastal resources
Planning perspective on coastal sustainable development, including the tourism related urban sprawl, accounting for competing multiple uses, and coastal defense
Bioeconomics on the interface of the sea and terrain
Integrative sustainable coastal management and governance
Sustainability indicators for coastal communities, and coastal and marine ecosystems
Field methods for coastal ecological research
Marine biological resources, their stocks and sustainable management
Remote sensing methods for exploring coastal and marine sustainability

Projects:

“Kind city” as a model for sustainable development of a coastal urban community
Management of fishing stock for sustainable yield

The main teaching period is November 1-7, 2021, and a post-school of November 8-14 allocated for tutoring, independent project work and the graduation. We expect a large international audience to attend online. Our capacity is limited to 50 participants; most of the audience is expected to represent MARE and URGENT Erasmus+ projects, including both the representatives of EU universities as well as India, Malaysia and Vietnam.

The November School is prepared by Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilità in ambiente marino (Capo Granitola, Italy), Istituto per le Risorse Biologiche e le Biotecnologie Marine (Mazara del Vallo, Italy), University of Catania (Italy), University of Bremen (Germany), Estonian Life Science University (Tartu, Estonia), and the city of Mazara del Vallo in cooperation with international partners.

Program overview

The SMART school consists of the following periods:

In-Field period is open from November 1 to 7, 2021 in Mazara del Vallo (Italy), when the main program of the School takes place (see more in the detailed School agenda). During the in-field period we will offer a number of lectures and highly interactive sessions designed to familiarise the online audience with the state of art in coastal and marine science and policies, as well as the field and analytical tools. This will be followed by supervised group research involving comparisons with cases in Malaysia and Vietnam. The exact topics for group research will be identified by students with a help of the School faculty. The task of student groups would be to identify the particular problem they want or are capable to analyse and address given time and resource constraints, to develop research proposals containing the research question, its justification and research methodology, and to perform the research.

After-Field period (November 8-14, 2021), that is the time for semi-independent group work, online consultations, and making presentations of research findings to the school faculty (see the detailed Agenda). We will collect research reports and make them available to all the participants, stakeholders and partner universities for curriculum development and learning purposes. We will encourage the students and supervising faculty to re-develop their research reports to academic papers; subject to the quality and number of quality papers, we will consider a special issue of an international peer-reviewed journal.

Eligibility, conditions, logistics

The SMART School target audience are PhD and MSc students, junior researchers, faculty members and practitioners interested in the development and management of resilient coastal communities and marine biological resources.

The SMART School working language is English.

If you are interested to participate in the school, Please fill in the online application form: https://forms.gle/f2zUr6cm8NpCJcwY8

Connection will be via ZOOM, links to main sessions and parallel break out group sessions will be distributed beforehand. For some in-hand practical exercises students will need to install software on their computers in order to be able to follow the exercise. Any apps required to be installed will be freeware.

We will do our best to create intellectually stimulating, creative and stress-free working and living environments. It is of utmost importance to us that the School participants not only receive useful knowledge and add new contacts to their networks, but also enjoy local cultural diversity and scenic landscapes of Sicily. We will work on providing the participants insights into the research location.

School faculty

Dr. Gaspare Buffa, National Research Council, CNR-IAS (Mazaro del Vallo, Italy)
Dr. Francesco Filiciotto, National Research Council, CNR-ISP (Messina, Italy)
Dr. Fabio Fiorentino, National Research Council, CNR-IAMC (Mazaro del Vallo, Italy)
Dr. Anne Kull, Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu, Estonia)
Kai-Yun Lile, Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu, Estonia)
Dr. Vincenzo Maccarrone, National Research Council, CNR-IAS (Mazaro del Vallo, Italy)
Raul Sampaio de Lima, Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu, Estonia)
Rossana Parrinello, the municipality of Mazara del Vallo
Dr. Daniele La Rosa, University of Catania (Italy)
Dr. Pietro Scandura, University of Catania (Italy)
Prof. Kalev Sepp, Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu, Estonia)
Dr. Marco Torri, National Research Council, CNR-IAS (Mazaro del Vallo, Italy)

Coordinating team

Dr. Vincenzo Maccarrone, MARE focal point for the National Research Council
Dr. Anton Shkaruba, Vice-Coordinator of the Erasmus+ MARE project
Dr. Daniele La Rosa, MARE focal point for Italy

Contacts, information and updates

logistics, accommodation, applications and enrolment: Vincenzo Maccarrone, maccarrone@cnr.it
academic planning and research: Anton Shkaruba, shkauba@emu.ee

Updated information will be available on project website:

MARE – Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia (https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/mare/)

Detailed agenda of the SMART School

November 1, Monday
9.00 – 10.00 – Vincenzo Maccarrone, Anton Shkaruba and Daniele La Rosa, Introduction to the School and the local research context
10.00 – 12.00 – Anton Shkaruba, Introduction to sustainability indicators
Coffee break
12.30 – 13.30 – Kalev Sepp (online), Integrated sustainable coastal management – challenges, and how are they addressed in Estonia
13.30 – 15.30 – tutoring, consultation and independent work time

November 2, Tuesday
9.00 – 11.00 – Anne Kull, Spatial development plan for the coastal area in Estonian western coast
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Kai-Yun Lile and Raul Sampaio de Lima, Remote sensing applications for coastal research
13.00 – 15.30 – tutoring, consultation and independent work time

November 3, Wednesday
9.00 – 11.00 – Vincenzo Maccarrone, Integrated coastal zone management: tools, methods and actions for sustainable uses of marine resources
Coffee break
11.30-13.00 – Anne Kull, Kai-Yun Lile and Raul Sampaio de Lima, Q-GIS application for sustainable coast management
13.00 – 15.30 – tutoring, consultation and independent work time

November 4, Thursday
9.00 – 10.00         Fabio Fiorentino, Assessment and management of fishery resources
10.00 – 11.30       Marco Torri and Gaspare Buffa, Exploring marine biological resources: research methods and applications to Mediterranean case studies
Coffee break
12.00 – 13.00       Francesco Filiciotto, Underwater noise and impact on marine animals
13.00 – 15.30 – tutoring, consultation and independent work time

November 5, Friday
9.00 – 10.00 – Daniele La Rosa, Ecosystem Services trade-offs in coastal areas
10.00 – 11.00 – Daniele La Rosa, Urbanization dynamics and pressures on coastal areas
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.30 – Pietro Scandura, Hydrodynamics of the coastal area: experimental and numerical approaches
13.30 – 15.30 – tutoring, consultation and independent work time

November 6, Saturday
9.00 – 10.00 – Anton Shkaruba, Vincenzo Maccarrone, Daniele La Rosa, “Kind city” as a model for coastal resilience
10.00 – 11.00 – Rossana Parrinello, The kind city of Mazara del Vallo
Coffee break
1.30 – 13.00 – Vincenzo Maccarrone, Anton Shkaruba and Daniele La Rosa, Identification of group research topics and consultations
13.30 – 15.30 – tutoring, consultation and independent work time

November 7, Sunday