El 26 de septiembre en Roma, se celebrará el evento oficial de constitución de la Asociación Europea Living Lakes (ELLA). Este evento, al que todos están invitados a asistir, servirá de plataforma para presentar las estrategias y objetivos del proyecto, así como para destacar los resultados y logros en áreas cruciales como el cambio climático, las metodologías de monitoreo de humedales y las prácticas de participación ciudadana en la protección de lagos.
El director de Fundación Global Nature, Eduardo de Miguel, compartirá conocimientos sobre la gestión y restauración de humedales mediterráneos como sumideros de carbono en el marco del proyecto LIFE Wetlands4Climate. Además, se llevará a cabo una sesión interactiva estratégica ELLA & Blue Lakes con miras al futuro
web del evento: https://lifebluelakes.eu/en/news/conferenza-finale-di-progetto-life-blue-lakes/
PROGRAMA
FINAL CONFERENCE LIFE Blue Lakes and ELLA (European Living Lakes Association) constitutional event
Programme: Day 1, Tuesday 26th September 2023
Venue: Italian Geographic Society, Via della Navicella 12, Rome, Italy
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 11:00
Welcome: Giorgio Zampetti, General Director Legambiente, Italy
Federico De Filippi, Project Advisor of European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
Presentations of the results and impacts of the EU LIFE Blue Lakes Project:
The Blue Lakes journey: participatory processes, engagement and raising awareness of local communities on microplastics in inland waters
Elisa Scocchera, Legambiente
How Municipalities can prevent micro plastics in lakes – Experiences from Germany with the Lake Paper
Dimitri Vedel, Lake Constance Foundation
Standardisation of methodologies to determine microplastic contamination in lakes
Patrizia Menegoni & Maria Sighicelli, ENEA
Training courses for sharing the Standard Protocol for monitoring microplastics in lake waters aimed at Environmental Protection Agencies
Valentina Della Bella, ARPA UMBRIA
Microplastics in the urban water cycle: sampling, detenction, occurance and removal in drinking water and wastewater treatment plants
Anna Laura Eusebi & Lucia Pittura, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Dialog oriented involvement of relevant business sectors
Udo Gattenlöhner, GNF Global Nature Fund
Improving regulatory frameworks to avoid micro plastic in lakes
Leonardo Gatta & Manuela Ruisi ABDAC- Italian Central Apennine District Basin Authority
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Round table, moderated by Giulia Assogna, journalist of La Nuova Ecologia
Tania Tellini, coordinator of Utilitalia‘s water sector activities
Giuseppe Bortone, AssoArpa president and Arpae general director Regional Environmental Protection Agency Emilia Romagna Region
(Rossetti/Di Pippo) IRSA-CNR
Luca Lucentini, Director of the National Center for Water Safety, ISS, Superior Institute of Health *tbc
MASE, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security *tbc
Ispra, Superior Institute for Environmental Protection and Research *tbc
Plastics Europe, *tbc
Marco Casini, General Secretary of the Italian Central Apennine District Basin Authority
Francesco Fatone, International Water Association Fellow, Water Europe Ambassador
Paolo Stranieri, Scientific and Technical Coordination and Projects Arpa Umbria, Regional Environmental Protection Agency Umbria Region
Giorgio Zampetti, general director Legambiente
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
The event is organised by the LIFE Blue Lakes Project in collaboration with the European Living Lakes Association (ELLA). The day continues in the afternoon with the ELLA constitutional event, open to anyone who wishes to attend.
Constitutional Event ELLA (European Living Lakes Association)
14:30 – 15:00
ELLA (European Living Lakes Association) – Constitutional Event
Strategies and objectives of the EU ELLA Project – Udo Gattenlöhner, GNF, Germany
15:00 – 16:30
Short Presentations of the results and achievements of the ELLA project:
Lakes and Climate Change in Europe
Laura Böttges, Global Nature Fund, Germany
Lake Monitoring Methodologies
Dr Gábor Molnar, Director LBDCA Hungary
Community engagement practices in lakes protection
Margit Säre, Director Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia
The Use of activated charcoal in water treatment
Volker Kromrey, Director Lake Constance Foundation, Germany
“Mediterranean wetlands management and restoration as carbon sinks – LIFE Wetlands4Climate”
Eduardo de Miguel, Director Fundación Global Nature, Spain
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 ELLA & Blue Lakes Interactive Strategic Session: View to the future
Programme: Day 2, Wednesday 27th September 2023
09:30 – 12:30 ELLA Internal Members’ Assembly
13:00 – 17:00 Field trip to Lago di Bracciano
