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Focus on Red Sea corals at GESDA summit 2024
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Open-air photo exhibit in Geneva has started
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5th anniversary and distinguished guest
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AI 3D mapping of reefs, a tech revolution
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Bab el-Mandeb Strait, mission accomplished
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A Red Sea community in the making
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Djibouti workshop, now enjoy the video
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Djibouti workshop, a photo immersion 4/4
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Djibouti workshop, a photo immersion 3/4
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Djibouti workshop, a photo immersion 2/4
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Djibouti workshop, a photo immersion 1/4
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Meeting with the public at EPFL Open Days
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At the 14th edition of the Monaco Ocean Week
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TRSC and Jordan, a new milestone
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Djibouti mission, the film
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Vibrant healthy corals of Djibouti
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Mission Djibouti, we’re on!
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Gulf of Aqaba mission, discover the video
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Mission accomplished in the Gulf of Aqaba
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“Asking the corals how they feel”
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Gulf of Aqaba mission, morning briefing at MSS
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Red Sea corals on the forefront of the 4th Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit, held at CERN from 9 to 11 Oct 2024.

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Some 100 guests attended the event co-organized by the TRSC and the Diplomatic Club of Geneva as part of the photo exhibition on Quai Wilson

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Photo exhibition on Red Sea “reefs of hope” and TRSC’s missions in Djibouti visible on Quai Wilson in Geneva until Sept 3.

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Eritrea joins the list of Red Sea countries subscribing to the TRSC's initiative in favor of the conservation of coral reefs.

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In Djibouti, the TRSC briefed Federal Councilor Ignacio Cassis on the progress of the initiative launched in March 2019

Science

Discover the new tool developed by TRSC’s partner Prof Devis Tuia and his team at EPFL, now being implemented in the Red Sea

Expedition

The TRSC and its partners from Djibouti and Sudan conducted a coral mission in the Seven Brothers archipelago, in November

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The TRSC took part a workshop on the Red Sea organized by the Arab League for Educational, Cultural and Science Organization

Education

You liked the photos on the educational workshop organised in Djibouti on Red Sea coral ecosystems? Now enjoy the video!

Education

Discover the last episode of the photo report illustrating the education & outreach workshop organised in Djibouti in April.

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Discover the third episode of a photo report illustrating the education and outreach workshop organised in Djibouti in April.

Education

Discover the next episode of a photo report illustrating the education and outreach workshop organised in Djibouti in April.

Education

Discover the first episode of a photo report illustrating the education and outreach workshop organised in Djibouti in April.

Education

Some 25,000 visitors attend the two-day event, on 29 and 30 April. Among the highlights: the research on Red Sea corals.

Education

Visit the photo exhibit and attend the conference on Red Sea corals on 29-30 April 2023 as part of EPFL Open Days.

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Some 70 guests attend the event organized by the TRSC at the Monaco Yacht Club, on Monday 20th March

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The TRSC was invited by the Swiss Jordanian Business Club in Amman to talk about Red Sea corals conservation.

Expedition

Watch the full film of the mission to Djibouti last September with TRSC’s local and regional partners.

Expedition

Mission accomplished in the Gulf of Tadjoura where reefs demonstrate resistance to global warming at peak temperature.

Expedition

Long-term vision and spirit of regional collaboration at the heart of the kick-off event of the new mission in Djibouti.

Expedition

Samplings in Israeli and Jordanian waters: a milestone to the first ever Red Sea-wide coral ecosystem and biodiversity ‘baseline’.

Expedition

Team spirit grows stronger between mission’s participants, all committed to the conservation of Red Sea corals.

Expedition

Field work is on for TRSC’s team and its partners from the Marine Science Station and the Red Sea University in Port Sudan.

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Now online: the conference on Red Sea corals: when science and diplomacy converge to address climate change and regional stability

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Bridging not only science and diplomacy, but also Lausanne EPFL-based Transnational Red Sea Center and International Geneva

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18 May conference in Geneva: when science and diplomacy converge to address climate change and regional stability

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The Transnational Red Sea Center hosted an event at the 5th edition of the Monaco Ocean Week in the presence of 70 guests.

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The Swiss initiative to save the last coral “refuge” on Earth will be presented in March at the Monaco Ocean Week

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Listen to the interview of Prof Meibom at the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) inaugural summit in October.

In the media

Inspiring interview of Prof Meibom on corals, the Red Sea and the necessity of science diplomacy to preserve them.

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Prof Anders Meibom, director of the Transnational Red Sea Center, one of the speakers at GESDA summit on 9 October.

Expedition

The TRSC and the Red Sea University carried out a series of observations along the Sudanese coast prior to the 2022 expedition.

In the media

Switzerland's new Special Representative for Science Diplomacy, Alexandre Fasel, interviewed in Le Temps

In the media

An «invitation to disaster for globally important corals» about the recent pipeline deal

Expedition

First days at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat pier

Expedition

Watch the video of the official launch of the first expedition season

In the media

The Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps special envoy joins the Transnational Red Sea in Aqaba, Jordan

In the media

«Swiss researchers investigate the coral miracle of Aqaba», writes newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Expedition

Swiss sailboat Fleur de Passion arrived safely in Aqaba, Jordan, on June 10th after a six-week navigation

In the media

The Red Sea - and the rescue of the FSO Safer - is in dire need of dialogue

In the media

While «the coral reefs of the world have taken a lot of abuse lately», says Wired

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Geneva Solutions’ article helps refresh our understanding on what corals are

In the media

No, Red Sea corals are not like other corals and that’s why they deserve sustained attention

In the media

French national daily newspaper Figaro relates the latest study on Red Sea

Expedition

Discover the ceremony organized in Seville at the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation

Science

A new research gives additional insight into the specific genetic factors that allow Red Sea corals to survive

In the media

Transnational Red Sea Center and the launch to come from Jordan in June of its first season of expedition

In the media

Interview on Swiss national radio RTS with Prof. Anders Meibom from EPFL

In the media

In Seville, « Switzerland swells the sails of its scientific diplomacy», writes Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps

Expedition

The departure of Fleur de Passion for the Red Sea was the subject of a series of events organised in Seville

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Ambassador Alexandre Fasel’s mission will be to strengthen Geneva's role as a digital governance hub

In the media

Published in French magazine OrientXXI, yet another dramatic reminder of Safer tanker

In the media

This BBC feature draws a particularly complete and in-depth picture of what is at stake

Science

A major discovery helps explain the symbiotic relationship between corals and algae

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The official launch of the Transnational Red Sea Center in March 2019 in the Swiss federal capital Bern

Mission

The Transnational Red Sea Center is a scientific research center created in 2019 at the Ecole Polytechnique fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL) with the official support of the Swiss Foreign Ministry. An independent and not-for-profit organization, the Center capitalizes on Switzerland’s neutrality, its longstanding tradition of promoting dialogue and its reputation for scientific excellence in order to bridge science and diplomacy for the future of coral reefs. In the Red Sea and beyond.

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The first ever Red Sea-wide coral reef ecosystem and biodiversity «Baseline»

From 2022 to 2025, the Transnational Red Sea Center is planning a series of scientific expeditions along the Red Sea coastlines, as the first phase of its long-term vision. These expeditions which will also include outreach activities at the regional and global level are to take place over the summers of 2022-2025, when the water temperature in the region is at its highest. Their ambition is to progressively cover the ca. 4’500 km coastline of the eight Red Sea countries: Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, and Djibouti.

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Pioneering studies

Since the early 2010s, pioneering scientific studies have gradually revealed to the world the excep-tional resistance of the corals of the Gulf of Aqaba (and by extension the Red Sea) to climate change, due to their specific genetics. The origins of this unique characteristic, which makes the Red Sea the last ‘refuge’ for corals in the world, lie in the fact that Red Sea corals have progres-sively and very slowly recolonised this environment, which became a sea again at the end of the last Ice Age, from the Indian Ocean. In their slow northward migration, they have gradually adaptedto the extreme temperature conditions that prevail in the Bab el-Mandeb, the strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean.

Since these initial studies, many others have undertaken to better understand a phenomenon of colossal significance for the entire planet, at a time when corals are disappearing on a massive scale everywhere but the Red Sea due to rising temperatures and ocean acidification.

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