We finally received that important message from Fortaleza all of us back in Kiel were eagerly waiting for: The Future Ocean Dialogue has now officially and successfully been opened to the public and everything turned out to be just fine! Visitors and official guests from DAAD, DWIH and the embassy alike all seemed to be quite impressed. All through the first day, some 200 visitors already attended the Future Ocean Dialogue and lots more are excpected for the weekend. After such a long time of hard work and some last days of uncertainty, this is both a great relief and also a big success for everyone involved, first of all our exhibition crew in Brazil who worked tirelessly to make this finally happen! After such good news from Brazil, we’re looking forward to soon hearing the full story about the official opening ceremony on wednesday and even more pictures which surely will be delivered first hand by the returning exhibitioners in a short while.