Webinar:
"We all live by the sea" 

Link to the Facebook Event

No matter how far from the sea you live, next to the beach or far away in the mountains, you still have a great impact on it. And it is up to you whether you create a positive relationship with the sea or have an adverse impact on it.

This webinar is of a popular nature and will focus on exploring innovative practices in social perception regarding water resources, water protection and water management. Together we will discuss how to communicate issues related to water resources and access to water in the contemporary world. All in the context of sustainable development and adaptation to climate change. This is the first meeting on this topic, but we hope it will not be the last! We warmly invite you to co-create this project with us!

Introductory speeches:
Mark Hardiman, CEO and Director at LAT Water Ltd, Great Britain
Gerhard Herndl, University of Vienna, Austria
Tymon Zieliński, IO PAN, Poland; Representative of Eastern Europe in the UN World Ocean Assessment Process

Participants in the panel discussion:
Mark Hardiman, LAT Water Ltd, Great Britain
Gerhard Herndl, University of Vienna, Austria
Izabela Kotyńska-Zielińska, Today We Have, Poland
Anca-Maria Panait, Mare Nostrum, Romania
Katarina Zvaríková, Slovak Eco Quality, Slovakia

Moderation:
Anna Macko, Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, Poland
Tymon Zieliński, IO PAN, Poland

22.04.2024 r. (Monday), 5:00 p.m.
ONLINE – Zoom 
LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88009433191
In English

 
GET TO KNOW OUR SPEAKERS!

MARK HARDIMAN, LAT Water Ltd, Great Britain

Mark Hardiman is the founder of LAT Water and its successor Aquas Group who have developed innovative low cost methods of treating heavily contaminated industrial water using waste heat or renewable energy. The technology has received a number of awards for innovation from the UK and Chinese governments in addition to the EU Seal of Excellence. He is the holder of more than ten international patents covering the technology. Mark has been working in the water industry for over 15 years following a career in international finance and business planning with General Motors. He is a UK national and holds Masters and Batchelors degrees from Cambridge University in the UK in mathematics and physics.

GERHARD HERNDL, University of Vienna, Austria

Gerhard J. Herndl is Professor of Aquatic Biology at the Dept. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Vienna since 2008. Prior to that, he was Head of Department at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) in the Netherlands and Professor of Biological Oceanography at the University of Groningen from 1999-2009. His research group investigates the carbon cycle in the ocean and the role of organisms in the nutrient cycling and the future of the ocean. Gerhard J. Herndl has published more than 300 papers in scientific journals. His research has been funded by the European Research Council, he received the Wittgenstein Prize of the Science Fund (FWF) and is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. More information about Gerhard J. Herndl and his team can be found on https://www.microbial-oceanography.eu/

IZABELA KOTYŃSKA-ZIELIŃSKA, Today We Have, Poland

Izabela Kotyńska-Zielińska is the founder of the Today We Have, a coordinator of the I live by the Sea Project and an Ocean Literacy Educator. Her motto: You can never be overdressed or overeducated - Oscar Wilde. She loves acquiring knowledge, so since graduating in political science, she has been educated in history, and then pedagogy.

She really believes in good quality education. An education that knows no boundaries and that is open to everyone all over the world. That is why she created I live by the Sea Project for children and teenagers. The philosophy behind the I live by the Sea Project, which is run by Today We Have, in co-operation with a number of institutions is to create a platform which enables exchange of information for all people interested in the ocean.

Her goal is to educate kids and teenagers all over the world to realize that We all live by the Sea, no matter where we live – next to the beach or far away in the mountains, we still have a great impact on it.

www.todaywehave.com

AMCA-MARIA PANAIT, Mare Nostrum, Romania

Anca-Maria Panait is the Public Events Coordinator, Project Coordinator at Mare Nostrum NGO - She’s a Biology and Biodiversity Conservation graduate; she loves the environment and wishes respect for it from everybody. For over 11 years, she is in charge of organizing public events, aimed to inform and educate people in order to respect the environment; she strongly believes that only through education we can protect the environment. She was involved in projects that targeted different areas, such as education or marine litter, but with the same purpose: a cleaner environment! She is part of Mare Nostrum NGO team, since 2012, a team of dedicated people, with initiative and a burning desire to change the world for the better, who have been fighting for 30 years to conserve biodiversity and save the Black Sea marine ecosystem.

https://www.marenostrum.ro/en

TYMON ZIELIŃSKI, Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Professor Tymon Zieliński is a leader of the CORE – Climate and Ocean Research and Education team at the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot. Tymon is a co-author of over 100 scientific articles and over 150 presentations.
Between 2016 and 2020, and since 2024, Tymon has been representing Central-Eastern Europe at the board for the United Nations Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, and since 2023 Tymon is a member of a panel of experts in the same group. In 2019, Tymon became a member of the Steering Committee of the European Marine Board Communication Panel, while between 2020 and 2022 he chaired the EU4Ocean Coalition Climate and Ocean Working Group. Since 2022 Tymon is a member of the Climate Council of the UN Global Compact Network Poland.

Tymon participates in scientific and educational projects in the field of studying sustainability processes related to climate change.

In recognition of his scientific, organizational and educational achievements, Tymon became, in 2021, the "face" of the European action on Research Integrity and was also awarded a title of a Green Hero by BNP Paribas for climate research and education.

Full CV is available at: https://www.iopan.pl/KlimatOceany/ZielinskiTymonCV.html

KATARÍNA ZVARÍKOVÁ,, Slovak Eco Quality, Slovakia

Katarína Zvaríková is a pedagogue, sustainability educator, trained facilitator and project manager for an environmentally oriented NGO Slovak Eco Quality. She has been active in volunteering, activism and community work since her teenage years, volunteering on workshops and festivals with physically and mentally challenged, studying and volunteering around Europe, volunteering in refugee camp in Palestine, rural areas of Northern India, teaching kids in orphanage in Nepal and doing community development work in Botswana, focusing on sustainability and combating malnourishment.

Now she works with sustainability and mental health oriented projects, collaborating with European countries as well as networking active initiatives within the Slovak realities with the goal to strengthen our efforts.