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Final report on the 14-year long ‘H2020 Initiative for a cleaner Mediterranean’ is out
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, urban...
MIO-ECSDE endorses declaration on citizen science for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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, academics,...
4Pictures4Mediterranean International Photo Contest: Take part until December 31, 2020
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 their...
Marine LitterWatch Month is here again, an opportunity to take action against marine litter
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...
Europe adopts a threshold value for marine litter on coastlines and steps up its efforts towards litter-free coasts and seas
Today, the European Commission published a threshold value for marine litter on coastlines, paving the way for litter-free coasts and seas. EU Member States’ experts have unanimously agreed that a beach will need to have less than 20 litter items for every 100 metres...
Take part and help shape the post-2020 UfM Environment and Climate Action!
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) launched an On-line Stakeholders Consultation aiming at compiling inputs and suggestions, from Mediterranean and other stakeholders, as part of the process leading to the 2nd UfM Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate...