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The Horizon Europe FOLOU project has launched the second course in its online training series, “Measuring Food Loss: Implementing the FOLOU Methodology.” Developed by the University of Reading and delivered through the Ubiqua platform (UVic-UCC), this course builds on...

METAVASEA Wave 1 Survey results The region’s shipping community is increasingly aware of the need to cut emissions and is taking steps towards decarbonization. While progress is uneven, responses from shipping companies, ports, suppliers, and civil society point to...

The Mediterranean Stakeholder Forum on Environment and Climate Action – “Making the Behavioural Shift Happen: NGOs/CSOs, Parliamentarians, Journalists, Women and Youth Organisations, and Other Actors Meet in Cairo” successfully took place over 2,5 days from 21–23...

The 24th Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP24) to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean and its Protocols (Barcelona Convention) concluded in Cairo on the 5th of December, after four intense...

Fifty stakeholders from across all European Regional Seas convened in Brussels for the Zero Pollution Parliament, sending a clear signal: business-as-usual is no longer an option. Two Futures, One Choice The discussions contrasted two possible pathways for marine...

MIO-ECSDE was delighted to actively contribute to the first in-person workshop of the FOLOU Twinning Regions Programme (TWRP), held in Barcelona on 4–5 November 2025. The gathering marked an important milestone in the joint effort to replicate and scale up FOLOU tools...