The Oslo Region European Office and West Norway Office are facilitating a EWRC side event with NTNU Campus Ålesund and their member municipalities Bærum and Ålesund.on Co-creating clean coasts. The event will take place on 10 October from 09:00-11:00, with a light breakfast served from 08:00.

Many municipalities and regions are facing marine pollution. How can we cooperate across sectors to find future solutions? How do we create a cleaner coast and reduce plastic pollution? Can research help us by creating the tools we need to work more efficiently?
 
These questions are among those you might find answers to in our breakfast seminar Co-creating clean coasts. The event is part of the side events of the European Week of Regions and Cities. In the Norwegian funded DatSam project, a marine litter management toolbox (PlastOPol) has been further developed and deployed to support stakeholder ecosystems in achieving clean coasts. In this session, we present new visualisation technologies and workflows designed to address marine pollution in data-driven, co-creative processes and share experiences from tool deployment in a major cleanup event in Norway. After the project presentation, participants are invited to experiment with various visualisation tools.

Agenda

•       08.30-09.00 Registration and light breakfast

•       Keynote speech: Massimo Busuoli, Head of NTNU Brussels office (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

•       DatSam project: Marine pollution - A municipal challenge

•       Stakeholder engagement: Co-creation in innovation ecosystems

•       The PlastOPol marine litter management toolbox

•       Questions and discussion

•       Interactive tool session

The Oslo Region European Office and West Norway Office are delighted to facilitate this event together with NTNU Campus Ålesund and our member municipalities Bærum and Ålesund.

Please register here.

We wish you a warm welcome to our breakfast seminar, and hope to see you on October 10 at Norway House!