BASRAN Webinar October 26, 2024

Why prevention? It's so much easier and cheaper to prevent damage than to fix messes afterwards! Let's be sensible about the Baltic Sea too! Let's prevent in advance and not just endlessly correct mistakes!

Join us for this engaging BASRAN webinar dedicated to tackling the pressing environmental challenges facing the Baltic Sea. Prevention rather than cure - Save the Baltic Sea! Discover actionable solutions to combat eutrophication, hazardous substances, oil-containing shipwrecks, and unexploded ordnance. Renowned international keynote speakers will share their insights and strategies to protect and restore this vital marine ecosystem. 

Don't miss this opportunity to become part of the movement to save the Baltic Sea.  and make a difference! You will receive more information about the webinar.

The webinar is open to everyone!

Contacts: Frederik Laursen, Past President Svendborg Rotaryklub, Denmark, +45 60723900, frederik1962(ät)gmail.com

PROGRAMME OF THE WEBINAR  (times are CET) >>> The speakers

10:45  Zoom link opens. 

Music Anders Paulsson

THE EYES OF ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE ON US

11.00 OPENING WORDS

Welcome!

Gun-Marie Östedt-Axelsson, Chair of BASRAN Board, Värmdö-Skärgård Rotary Club, Sweden

Welcome and instructions from the Moderator 

Tina Holm Mikkelsen,  Past President of Rotary Svendborg, Sct. Jørgens, Denmark

Introduction to the webinar theme: Why prevention?!

Frederik Laursen, Project Manager of the webinar, Past President Svendborg Rotaryklub, Denmark

Saving the Baltic Sea is not Magic - it is Working Together! VIDEO

Stephanie A Urchick, Rotary International President 

11.15 KEYNOTES

How to prevent eutriphication in the future? SLIDES

Stiig Markager, professor at Aarhus University in marine ecology and biogeochemistry, Department of Ecoscience, Denmark 

The Farmer Revitalises the Entire Ecosystem - Regenerative agriculture SLIDES

Pieta Jarva, Strategic Director of the Baltic Sea Action Group BSAG, bsag.fi, Finland

TAKE A LOOK! Crash course in Regenerative Farming

The horses' role in eutrophication and ecosystem services SLIDES

Helena Aronsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden

Progress of the preventive action relating to the Dangerous Substances of the Deep of the Baltic Sea SLIDES

Mark Krawczynski, Chair of  BASRAN Action Committee "Dangerous Substances of the Deep",  Past Chair of BASRAN, Rotary Club Warszawa City, Poland

River basins of Baltic: how to engage distant citizens for Baltic Sea causes SLIDES

Simonas Gentvilas, the Minister of the Environment, Lithuania

Sustainable Tourism - travel for tomorrow SLIDES

Denise Johannsson, Head of seaside resort and health & Spa Rostock and Warnemünde, Germany

13:20 WEBINAR ENDS

Short 10-minute break 

13:30 BASRAN Members' Meeting 

(in Zoom, the same link as for the Webinar) (Times are CET)

The webinar will be followed by the BASRAN Annual Members’ Meeting – all are welcome!

Time: Saturday October 26, 2024, at 13:30 – 14:30 CET (14:30 – 15.30 EET) (in Zoom, the same link as for the Webinar)

Right after the Webinar 

AGENDA:

 1. Opening of the meeting 

2. Accepting the Agenda 

3. Stating the attendees 

4. BASRAN Annual Report 2023-2024 

a. Action Committee Report, Dangerous substancies in the deep, Mark Krawczynski

b. Action Committee Report, The impacts of industrial fishing on the Baltic ecosystem, Eva Nisser

5. BASRAN Board 2023-2025 and Action Plan 2023-2025 

6. BASRAN Baltic Sea RYLA 2025 

7. Discussion 

8. Closing of the meeting

Welcome to join the meeting!