The Vietnamese partners of the Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia (MARE) Project participated in the National Training and Stakeholder Workshop co-hosted by MCD, VISI and DONRE on strengthening the exchange of information, science and technology to support implementation of the National Action Plan on Marine Plastic Waste Management organized on July 27, 2022.  The event was attended by more than 70 participants from various agencies, organizations, and academic institutions, which included representatives of all MARE project Vietnamese partners MCD, HCMUNRE, CTU, VMU and VNIO.    

Photo: Meeting participants

The MARE project partners had a special working session to make scientific and technological inputs from research and tertiary education for initiatives, good practice models in coastal and marine environment protection. In that session, the MARE project partners made introduction of MARE Vietnam for the key stakeholders, with highlights from MARE project in improvements of Vietnamese tertiary education on coastal and delta management, which aimed to engage relevant academic & non-academic organisations and CDM employers in MARE project activities and resources through a SCP. The follow-up discussion was facilitated for the key stakeholders to have Q&A about MARE project and provide comments on further involvement in the SCP. It was suggested that a web corner could be used to exchange information and activities.

MARE partners’ participants in the workshop

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This project No. 610327-EPP-1-2019-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP has been funded by Erasmus+ CBHE programme of the European Union.