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Embassy of the North Sea partner in extensive international rewilding programme
With great enthusiasm and pride, we are launching the new Rewilding Dogger Bank programme with an international coalition led by Doggerland Foundation. This large-scale initiative, aimed at rewilding the nature reserve, has received a conditional commitment of funding from the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme. The Dogger Bank initiative is one of seven marine nature …
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Publication Dogger Bank manifest
Safeguard the minimum standards of conservation, better representation, higher ambition The Embassy of the North Sea and Doggerland Foundation advocate a better position for the North Sea in the legal, public and political domain. On 13 February 2025, we published the manifest Making Room for the Dogger Bank. With a broad international coalition of knowledge …
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Diplomatic Suitcase at MAC Lisbon
A new chapter for our Diplomatic Suitcasein Lisbon From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass …
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Looking back a the Assembly Whose Ocean?
January 30 2025, we collectively rewrote, with over 230 participants, the UN political declaration ‘Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility’ from the perspective of seagulls, jellyfish and polymetallic nodules. After presentations by scientists about these entities, we split up in three groups to start negotiating the chosen texts from a non human perspective. Not an easy …
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Looking back at the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
Modes of activism for nature protection From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s lakes, seas, rivers and glaciers confluenced for the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 at Ocean Space, Venice. Over 50 academics, lawyers, artists, ecologists …
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Join us at the Whose Ocean? Assembly!
Whose Ocean? Assembly The ocean is vital for life on earth and climate, yet its voice is rarely heard in law and political decision-making. It is completely unclear who is meant when bodies like the UN speak of ‘our oceans’. It is also uncertain who has the right to lay claim to the ocean or …
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Online water bodies press confluence
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will hold an online press confluence 26 September 2024 from 10:00 – 11:15. This online session will give insight in the foundation, aims, visions and methods of the Confluence of European Water Bodies and offers press and researchers the opportunity to ask questions. Several European water bodies will be …
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New water bodies collective website: www.water-bodies.eu
Our mission is to listen to, imagine and represent the North Sea as a full-fledged political player, as a person with interests that needs better representation. While working on this mission, European collaborations have become increasingly important to us. First of all, of course, because the North Sea is bordered by seven countries, but certainly …
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Not Illegal Fishing Competition @Manifesta15 Barcelona
The mixed media installation of the Not Illegal Fishing Competition will be presented at Casa Gomis from 8 September – 24 November 2024. Invited to take part in the pre-biennial research process of Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana, the Embassy of the North Sea (Sheng-Wen Lo, Leon Lapa Pereira and Harpo ‘t Hart) studied the impact of …
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The Salt Mountain of Barcelona: exhibition at Disseny Hub, Barcelona
The ocean speaks. New ecologies and new economies of the seas From October 10 2024, The Embassy of the North Sea presents research and work on the Llobregat Delta Barcelona and the salt mountain of sallent at Disseny Hub, Barcelona’s design museum. The work, commissioned by Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana will be presented as part of …
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