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The waters of Europe are confluencing – and you can join!
SPREE EDITION, BERLIN 3–6 SEPTEMBER 2026Hosted by River Spree, FLUSSBAD Campus Berlin, SPORE Initiative, Spreepark Art Space, and Floating University Berlin From 3–6 September 2026, the River Spree will host the fourth Confluence of European Water Bodies in Berlin. For four days, rivers, lakes, lagoons, glaciers, seas, and wetlands from across Europe will…
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Robert MacFarlane opens Confluence 2025 in Amsterdam
The third edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place in the Netherlands, from 21 – 24 September 2025. Famous author Robert Macfarlane will open the Confluence, Sunday afternoon September 21 2025 in De Balie Amsterdam, with a talk about his new book Is A River Alive? Whether it’s the Amazon or…
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Big succes for Vistula River & Polish Rivers Sisters: no new dam!
The River Sisters are one of the first members of our Confluence of European Water Bodies. Together with many NGO’s, united in the Save The Rivers Coalition, they have been campaigning for over zeven years to protect Vistula, the queen of Polish rivers. Its middle section is an example of a perfectly preserved, unique landscape…
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Call for contributions to a special issue / anthology
Water Bodies of Europe – flows, obstacles, convergences and ways forwards We invite all water bodies to contribute to a special issue / anthology about Rights of Nature and water representation in Europe. All contributions in the form of research articles, essays, artworks, opinion pieces, book reviews from the perspectives of law, academia, artistic, activism are welcome!…
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New Chapter Diplomatic Suitcase in Lisbon
From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass roots activists, artists & academics representing Europes glaciers, seas, lakes, lagunes and rivers.…
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Monthly online water bodies meeting
Every third Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm, our water bodies network comes together to exchange plans and ideas. Find bellow the schedule. Should you be interested to join one of these sessions to meet the network, please send an email to: info@ambassadevandenoordzee.nl to receive the agenda + Zoomlink. Thursday 20 March 7:30pm Thursday…
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Watch the video of the confluence 2024 in Venice!
From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s lakes, seas, rivers and glaciers confluenced for the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 at Ocean Space, Venice. Over 50 academics, lawyers, artists, ecologists and policy makers gathered…
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Looking back at the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
Modes of activism for nature protection From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s lakes, seas, rivers and glaciers confluenced for the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 at Ocean Space, Venice. Over 50 academics, lawyers, artists, ecologists…
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Online press confluence 26 September 2024
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will hold an online press confluence 26 September 2024 from 10:00 – 11:15. This online session will give insight in the foundation, aims, visions and methods of the Confluence of European Water Bodies and offers press and researchers the opportunity to ask questions. Several European water bodies will be…
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Watch the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2023 short film
The first Confluence of European Water Bodies took place in September 2023 on the shores of the Mar Menor, the first ecosystem with legal personhood in Europe. We weaved connectivity and collectivity with waters from Poland to Italy, from Sweden to France, from Serbia to Montenegro, to Germany and the UK. We mourned over lost landscapes…