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Against the backdrop of the renowned World Ocean Race, a week-long series of talks and workshops addressing critical themes related to sustainability, the blue economy, smart cities, and citizen science unfolded in Genova from June 27th to June 30th, 2023, organised...

ISMAR/CNR organised during 19 – 23th of June 2023, in collaboration with INGV and police divers from the La Spezia Nautical Centre (Cnes), the cleaning of the seabed in an area of the Tuscan Archipelago Park, near the island of Giannutri. The operation, carried out as...

  ISMAR/CNR  participated in a citizen science activity (WP12) carried out on 10/6/2023 in 6 Italian areas (Genova, Marina di Pisa, Roma, Napoli, Mola di Bari and Ustica) in cooperation with the Italian association "Spazzapnea" and ISMAR's citizen science project...

ISMAR/CNR participated in the "30th Delta and Wetland International Symposium", to coincide with the two important dates of “European Environment Day” (5/6/2023) and “World Ocean Day” (8/6/2023). During the conference, the projects implemented by the Blue Schools...

Nautilos project and IMBBC have celebrated the European Maritime Day 2023 – In My Country together with the Art School of Heraklion (Crete, Greece). A beach cleaning campaign was organized on the 8th of May 2023 and the students joined forces to remove plastic litter...

ISMAR-CNR participated in the European Maritime Day event that took place in Brest during 24 – 26th of May 2023 and presented the Citizen Science activities of Nautilos project. During the two days of events in the exhibition area in Brest (Bretagne) there were...

IMBBC-HCMR participated on the 6th of May 2023 in the event "Celebrating Natural Sciences in Chania, 2023” and gave a talk on “The effects of plastics and microplastics in the marine environment”. The event was organized by EKFE, the Laboratory Center of Natural...

ISMAR-CNR participated in the national multiplier event of the EU Erasmus+ Project "Blue Schools Med" in Forli on the 5th of May 2023 for the promotion of the La Spezia Blue School Capellini Sauro project dealing with the study of transport of marine litter using...

A school cruise was organised by NIVA on 26th of April 2023 in collaboration with the Inspiria Science Center at the Outer Oslofjorden along with students from Jessheim High School. The students were lectured about marine litter in Oslofjorden and they were instructed...

NIVA had the opportunity to demonstrate the use of the smartphone plastic NIR scanner along with other shoreline sampling techniques to students from the University of Bergen during 19-20 April 2023. The students were part of either a bachelor or a master’s program at...