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The
Conference program
The Conference poster
The
Conference proceedings
Salt and salinas
as natural resources and alternative poles
for local development
Mytilene, 29 November – 1 December 2002
ORGANIZERS
Department of Geography – University of the
Aegean
Development Company of Lesvos Prefecture
Ministry of the Aegean
CONFERENCE PLACE
Plenary sessions (first & last days): Chamber
of Lesvos Conference Room
Second day: Polichnitos
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Aims of the Conference are to diffuse the results
of the ALAS Project and make them publicly known within the local
society and the Aegean world, as well as to summarize and reset
the objectives of the ALAS through the salt museums that are under
creation in the four Project sites.
A major objective of the Conference is to organize
networks of collaboration between interested institutions and
individuals dealing with salt, salt production, management of
salinas and salt museums. Such networks, to operate beyond the
framework and auspices of the ALAS Project, can be those of Mediterranean
salinas, of Salt Museums, of scientists and experts in salinas
issues, of traditional salt producers etc.
INDICATIVE THEMATIC UNITS AND ISSUES TO BE TREATED
- Historical value of Mediterranean salinas
- Know-how of salt making until the beginning
of the 20th century in the Aegean, Greece and the Mediterranean
- Cultural, natural and educational value of
salinas
- Creation and operation of salt museums
- Ecology, ecological management, environmental
education in salinas
- Alternative forms of salinas exploitation and
local development: salinas and tourism – salt gastronomy
– salt and salinas as basis for local development
- Planning, general management and conservation
of salinas
ORGANIZATION AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
- Themistoklis Lekkas, Rector and Professor of
the University of the Aegean and President of the "Hellenic
Saltworks SA"
- Theodora Petanidou, Associate Professor at
the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean and Member
of the ALAS Project Management Committee, Lesvos
- Spiros Efstratiou, ALAS Project Manager, Lesvos
- Renato Neves, Scientific Collaborator of ALAS
Project, Figueira da Foz
- Robert Turk, Member of the ALAS Project Management
Committee, Piran
- Milcho Skumov, Member of the ALAS Project Management
Committee, Pomorie
- Hjalmar Dahm, Assistant Project Manager, Lesvos
- Lena Vayanni, scientific collaborator of the
ALAS Project, Lesvos
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
- Friday 29/11/2002
- Plenary session of the Conference: Presentation
of the ALAS results – Keynote speakers
- Saturday 30/11/2002
- Four parallel workshops: Local development,
Nature conservation, Cultural heritage, History and know-how
of traditional salinas in the Aegean and Greece
- Excursion to the salinas and the Salt Museum
of Polichnitos
- Sunday 1/12/2002
- "What futures for the Mediterranean
salinas?": Presentation of the Conference results denoting
those of the workshops – Keynote speakers of International
Institutions –
- Concluding the Conference.
LANGUAGE
Official languages of the Conference are English
and French. Synchronous translation into Greek only during the
plenary session at the Chamber of Lesvos Conference Room.
The workshop on the History and techniques in
traditional salinas of Greece will be held in Greek.
ATTENDANCE
People wishing to participate in the Conference
are expected to duly fill the attached inscription form (statement
of attendance) and send it to the Organization Committee before
October 25th.
INFRASTRUCTURE, FACILITIES, BENEFITS
Projector (overhead – slide), screen of projection,
PC, video and data display, internet connection, synchronous translation
during the first day
Proceedings to all participants
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