MARLISCO really went out with a bang at the European Maritime Day held this year in Athens, from 28 to 31 May 2015. The European Maritime Day 2015 conference attracted a record number of participants, some 1300, from the European maritime community, who came together to discuss this year’s theme ‘Ports and Coasts as Engines for Blue Growth’.
Within the framework of the DeFishGear project, the MICRO2015 seminar was organized on 4-6 May 2015, at the Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia. The event attracted 82 participants from 10 countries. Six renown scientists, Francois GALGANI, Gijsbert TWEEHUYSEN, Christian LAFORSCH, Hrissi KARAPANAGIOTI, Maria Christina FOSSI and MIO-ECSDE Programme Officer Thomais VLACHOGIANNI, contributed invited talks.
Global Water Partnership–Mediterranean (GWP – Med), legally and lawfully represented by MIO-ECSDE, is seeking external expertise for the ‘Reinstatement of the stormwater reservoir at Paola, Malta’, within the framework of the “Climate Change Adaptation through Non Conventional Water Resources Management in North Mediterranean Programme (Alter Aqua)”.
The Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) and the ECNC Group together with MEDASSET (Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles), Aquafil and Nofir held an workshop at the European Maritime Day 2015 entitled “Innovative business models for marine litter in Europe”.
On the 27th of June 2015 MIO-ECSDE participated in the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) stakeholders conference entitled “Towards a Roadmap for Blue Investment and Jobs in the Mediterranean” held in Athens.