Management The Universities of Lisbon, Aveiro and Faro participate in a program to gather data and develop an analysis system for supervision and management of estuaries and coastal waters. The Universities of Maryland, Georgia, Washington and the Wood Hole Research Institute, Massachusetts are also part of the project. Conferences and workshops FLAD promotes and supports conferences, seminars and workshops developing transatlantic interchange. Themes covered include supervision and management of watercourses, environmental democracy and public participation, sustained development, environmental legislation, alternative energies, nature conservation. Travel grants FLAD promotes the interchange of research professionals as participants and speakers at conferences, seminars and workshops in the U.S. or in Portugal.
Experiences resulting from such interchanges are of incalculable value for the researchers.
They also help in obtaining new contacts for later co-operation.