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During the workshop, the six partner universities worked towards acquiring the necessary skills to design and analyse surveys and to establish a portfolio of competences, which will be the basis of updated and new MSc programmes. The project will result in two new MSc programmes in Ecuador and the update of three MSc programmes in both Ecuador and Peru. CORRIENTE XXI aims to raise the level of the MSc programmes, increase graduate employability, and raise awareness of the importance of aquatic sciences and management. [Extracted from the article]

Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into development cooperation - highlights from an ALTER-NET-EKLIPSE workshop On 18 June 2019 a workshop dedicated to the role of development cooperation in biodiversity conservation in the global South was held in Ghent, Belgium, during the ALTER-NET-EKLIPSE conference "The European Union Biodiversity Strategy beyond 2020". Monitoring and evaluating biodiversity mainstreaming requires alignment and harmonization among donors and their partners, to avoid unjustified pro-biodiversity labeling of aid flows. [Extracted from the article]

In Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, on the shores of Lake Tana, a workshop for the valuation of ecosystem services in Man and the Biosphere Reserves was held on 13-17 May 2019. The project aims to understand, apply and improve approaches for ecosystem services assessment in African Man and the Biosphere Reserves. [Extracted from the article]