by thomaisv | Nov 20, 2020 | News
It is estimated that between 75,000 and 300,000 tonnes of microplastics are released into the environment each year in the EU, according to the EC report entitled “A European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy”. Bearing this in mind, in 2019, upon request...
by Vaso Sgourdou | Nov 4, 2020 | News
In view of the upcoming 2nd UfM Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate Action, scheduled to take place in Egypt, a UfM Online Stakeholder Consultation was launched on the 22nd of July and remained active till the 31st of August 2020. MIO-ECSDE, through the...
by Vaso Sgourdou | Nov 4, 2020 | News
The ‘Horizon 2020 Initiative’ (2007 – 2020) has been a joint effort to substantially reduce pollution in the Mediterranean by tackling the sources that are said to account for around 80% of the overall pollution of the Mediterranean Sea: municipal solid waste,...
by Vaso Sgourdou | Nov 3, 2020 | News
In its continuous effort to promote participatory science interventions, MIO-ECSDE recently signed on to the Declaration “Our world – our goals: citizen science for the Sustainable Development Goals”, a kind of social contract between citizen scientists,...
by Vaso Sgourdou | Oct 15, 2020 | News
The MPA Engage project has launched the first edition of ‘4 Pictures 4 Mediterranean’, a photo competition hosted by Instagram that aims to bring to light the human impacts on the fragile marine ecosystems and the stories of managers and citizens involved in...
by Vaso Sgourdou | Sep 28, 2020 | News
It’s Marine LitterWatch Month for the 7th consecutive year and its success story builds on the joint efforts of the Marine LitterWatch communities. MIO-ECSDE is a part of this ‘taskforce’ towards providing reliable, accurate and comparable marine litter data for all...
