This week, the wrap-up conference of the MoMo project “Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Central Asia: Model Region Mongolia (MoMo)” is taking place in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia). The venue is the Red Rock Resort not far from the Mongolian capital.
Hinrich Paulsen from terrestris will present the geoportal developed jointly with project partners on site and hand it over to the Mongolian project partner Environmental Database Division, a department of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism.
In the last few days, the geodata in the Mongolian production server has been cleaned up and synchronized with the server located in Germany. This ensures that the project partners can use it, so that the dynamic portal can grow in content and be further developed.
In addition to various discussions with the project partners on site, the preparation of the presentation by Dr. Sarantuya and Hinrich Paulsen on the above topics was the main focus.
Update June 04, 2018
The wrap-up conference last week was a complete success, because, among other things, the MoMo geoportal could be handed over to the Mongolian partners.
Around 200 participants from Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia and, of course, Germany exchanged information intensively about the water situation in Mongolia for 2 days by means of lectures and workshops. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), as the project’s funding body, was represented by a 5-member delegation, which expressed great satisfaction with the results of the project. Following the two conference days, further discussions were held with the Mongolian and other partners, as findings were gained within the framework of the project, but the actual work naturally requires continuation in the future.
The efforts of a 2-day, very intensive conference could then be compensated for by a hike in the Mongolian steppe, which, with summer temperatures around 30°C and the radiant sunshine typical of Mongolia, led some to speak of a ‘workation’, i.e. a combination of ‘work’ and ‘vacation’.
