CReIAMO PA - MARLESS

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MARLESS

MARine Litter cross-border awarenESS and innovation actions

START DATE

01.06.2020

END DATE

30.06.2023

TOTAL BUDGET

€ 4.244.726,00

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE

The general objective of the project is to implement concrete and joint interventions that allow to address the phenomenon of marine Litter from different points of view and methods of intervention. The project therefore puts into effect concrete actions of monitoring, management, prevention and removal of the marine litter without neglecting the normative aspect within which these actions are framed. Finally, it proposes innovative and experimental actions aimed at treating plastic waste in a circular economy perspective.

LEAD PARTNER

MARLESS - REGIONAL AGENCY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND PREVENTION OF VENETO

TARGET GROUPS

  • General public Local, regional and national public authorities
  • Regional and local development agencies SMEs and business supporting organizations
  • Associations, innovation and environmental agencies
  • NGOs Education and training organizations as well as universities and research institutes

​​​​The MARLESS project intends to tackle the problem of Marine Litter in the Adriatic Sea from many fronts in order to obtain visible and concrete results. Numerous in fact are the factors that intervene in the creation of Marine Litter, plastics coming from the inlnads, plastics from the touristic sector or aquaculture. The project then addresses the problem in a holistic way and develops over 6 WPs aimed at attacking the problem on all fronts, and for this reason it fits well into the Strategic framework of this call, because involves all the direct or indirect responsible actors of the Marine Litter, which together can represent the solution to the problem. The project is therefore divided into:

Monitoring actions aimed at comparing the partners on the methodologies used in the Marine Strategy on their own territories and at implementing a profitable mix of good practices as well as enhancing the actions already implemented.

Governace and raising awareness actions aimed at carrying forward citizen engagement interventions both in schools, in the tourism sector and in a more holistic and integrated perspective of the Costa Contract;

Integrated regulatory management actions aimed at identifying the nodes where the application of different regulations intersects and causes bottlenecks that hinder the effectiveness of the interventions

Pilot actions which aim to test experimental actions whose outcomes will then be collected in toolboxes for the benefit of all partners who can then transfer them to their own territories.

KEY PROJECT NUMBERS

KEY PROJECT NUMBERS

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PARTNERSHIP

LEAD PARTNER

REGIONAL AGENCY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND PREVENTION OF VENETO

VIA OSPEDALE CIVILE 24

PADOVA - Italy

https://www.arpa.veneto.it


ARPAV is a public body: the Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection. It's a scientific –technical institution of Veneto Region, engaged in environment protection and monitoring. The main activities are: pollution prevention and control, meteoclimatic forecasting, environmental information and promotion of environmental education. ARPAV manages also the Marine and Lagoon Regional Centre that operates in the field of water quality monitoring along Veneto Region Shoreline.


Contact person: Lorena Franz
E-mail:​​​​​​​ lorena.franz@arpa.veneto.it

PROJECT PARTNER

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND ENERGY

https://gospodarstvo.gov.hr


The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (MESD), with its Department for Sea and Coastal Protection, is responsible for implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) as a basic EU Marine strategy document. It performs expert tasks on protection and preservation of marine environment and coastal zone. Main task of MESD in the project are to make preliminary analysis of the EU legislation and to manage development of Cross Boundary Management Plan.


Contact person: Irena Vučenik Šostik
E-mail:​​​​​​​ Irena.VucenikSostik@mzoe.hr

PROJECT PARTNER

APULIA REGION

https://www.regione.puglia.it


Apulia Region, Department of Mobility, Urban Quality, Public Works, Ecology and Landscape manages, among other things; manage the protection and enhancement of the environment and the landscape and waste cycle in compliance with good legislative practices in the field of ecology. In MARLESS, Region will coordinate Awareness raising and governance activities and promote pilot project aimed on collection of 40 tons of marine litter per year through the use of patented technologies.


Contact person: Matteo Fumarola
E-mail:​​​​​​​ m.fumarola@regione.puglia.it

PROJECT PARTNER

REGION OF VENETO

https://www.regione.veneto.it


Veneto Region will contribute to the project analyzing the application problems of European legislation, within the Italian legislative framework, in order to identify the most appropriate way to achieve an effective contrast to the marine plastic pollution. It will be in charge of Cooperation Agreement between Region of Veneto and the Association "Conference of Mayors of the Veneto Coast" in order to achieve the WP4 objectives, supporting the creation of a permanent discussion table.


Contact person: Serena Catullo
E-mail:​​​​​​​ serena.catullo@regione.veneto.it

PROJECT PARTNER

AUTONOMOUS REGION FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA

www.regione.fvg.it


The Central Directorate for environmental protection, energy and sustainable development is the regional office in charge of environmental issue for the Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region. The Waste management and polluted sites Department is the office in charge for waste management, including implementing EU and national legislation, developing regional waste management plans, performing monitoring and data collection, raising public awareness and promoting circular economy.


Contact person: Flavio Gabrielcig

E-mail: flavio.gabrielcig@regione.fvg.it

PROJECT PARTNER

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY DUBROVNIK-NERETVA COUNTY – DUNEA

https://www.dunea.hr


DUNEA is a public institution that acts as a regional coordinator for 22 local government units in Dubrovnik Neretva County. Its basic role is to achieve sustainable development of the County as well as to improve and coordinate existing development activities in accordance with the needs of the region. Through MARLESS, DUNEA will address common challenges by awareness raising on marine litter problematic and searching joint solutions to improve the marine environment monitoring and management.


Contact person: Iva Pozniak
E-mail:​​​​​​​ ipozniak@dunea.hr

PROJECT PARTNER

CETACEA FOUNDATION

http://fondazionecetacea.org


Cetacean Foundation (CF) is an Italian NGO working on sea turtles, cetaceans and Adriatic Sea conservation. Trough project, CF will organize activities with schools, an association of elder person and it will collaborate with concessionaries of beaches during their daily cleaning. CF will also collaborate with fishermen who will accept to use an experimental net specifically designed to collect debris from the entire water column for further analysis, without retaining the wildlife species.


Contact person: Valeria Angelini
E-mail:​​​​​​​ educazione@fondazionecetacea.org

PROJECT PARTNER

UNIVERSITY OF DUBROVNIK

https://www.unidu.hr


University of Dubrovnik is an integrated university and its MARLESS team experts from Laboratory for Intelligent Autonomous Systems of Department of Aquaculture and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. PP will contribute to ML monitoring optimization, awareness raising and governance, as well as Pilot Actions investigating the use of mussels as suitable tool for water column micro plastic purification and designing of the autonomous mobile net array for ML collection.


Contact person: Marina Brailo Šćepanović
E-mail:​​​​​​​ marina.brailo@unidu.hr

PROJECT PARTNER

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

https://www.unibo.it


The University of Bologna (UNIBO) is the oldest university in Western Europe. In MARLESS project will participate experts from The Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Research in Renewable Resources, Environment, Sea and Energy, The Interdepartmental Centre for Research in Environmental Sciences and The Department of Veterinary Medicine. Main activity will be to coordination and monitoring Pilot Actions to prevent, recover, process marine litter, including Stakeholders Toolbox.


Contact person: Marco Boselli
E-mail:​​​​​​​ marco.boselli@unibo.it

PROJECT PARTNER

INSTITUT RUDER BOSKOVIC

https://www.irb.hr/cim


Center for Marine Research (CMR), part of national Ruđer Bošković Institute, specializes in marine research, ecological analyses and long term monitoring of the northern Adriatic. The CMR hosts a database with micro plastic monitoring data starting from the year 2016. In the MARLESS project, CMR will mainly contribute in the harmonization of the monitoring plan and methodology, with an expansion of our national monitoring program and focusing on hotspot identification.


Contact person: Mirta Smodlaka Tanković
E-mail:​​​​​​​ mirta@cim.irb.hr

PROJECT PARTNER

IRENA – ISTRIAN REGIONAL ENERGY AGENCY L.T.D.

http://www.irena-istra.hr


IRENA was founded by Region of Istrian and is established as an independent organization, providing advisory services to public and private actors and implementing EU projects related to RES, energy efficiency, climate adaption planning, environmental issues, waste management, etc. In MARLESS, IRENA is leader of project communication activities and will also work on awareness rising about ML problematic like; educations with Eco schools and actions aimed to sensitising the touristic sector.


Contact person: Nikola Petrić
E-mail:​​​​​​​ Nikola.Petric@irena-istra.hr

PROJECT PARTNER

REGION OF ISTRIA

https://www.istra-istria.hr/hr/


Region of Istria is the westernmost county of Croatia which includes the biggest part of the Istrian peninsula. Region is a regional self-government public authority, composed of 14 departments. In MARLESS, Department for Sustainable Development of Region of Istria, has a role of associate partner with no budget and will participate in development of Cross Boundary Management Plan and support other partners from the region (PP7,PP9) in realization of their regional activities.


Contact person: Bruno Kostelić
E-mail:​​​​​​​ Bruno.Kostelic@istra-istria.hr

PROJECT PARTNER

EMILIA-ROMAGNA REGION

https://www.regione.emilia-romagna.it


RER has a wide experience in managing actions to increase the competitiveness and economic growth of the enterprises, territories, products and tourist services, in definition of sustainable tourism models, testing new forms of tourism,developing innovative tools. In MARLESS, RER,associate partner with no budget,will participate in development a green strategic process to innovate/improve the quality of the tourist destinations, and support PP4 in realization of its activities.


  

Contact person: Maura Mingozzi
E-mail:​​​​​​​ maura.mingozzi@regione.emilia-romagna.it

NEWS & EVENTS

NEWS

CReIAMO PA

Published on 02/12/2020 (last modified 02/12/2020)

ARPAV, LP of project MARLESS, presented the project at online external event.

The CReIAMO PA project is broken down into nine lines of intervention, seven of which are related to two of the three thematic priorities set out in the Seventh Environmental Action Plan (7 EAP, Decision 1386/2013/UE) and two to the horizontal actions set out in the same Action Plan as a supporting framework to achieve the objectives of each priority. Coordinated by the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection, aims to improve the effectiveness of services provided in the area line of the environment overcoming the weaknesses of the administrative system.

The focus of the workshop was the implementation of the marine strategy, the marine litter issue and the best practices carries out with a specific focus on the Adriatic Sea. The main conclusions identified were:

-there is a need to tackle the marine litter problem from the source

-different projects must be connected to share best practices and data to update constantly the baseline

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D 2.1.1 Kick-off meeting

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D 2.1.2 Communication Strategy

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D 2.1.3 Regional Communication Plans

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D 2.2.1 Printing materials production

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D 2.1.1. Project poster

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.1.1. Project Roll-up v1 

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.1.1. Project Roll-up v2

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.1.1. Project Beach-flag V1

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.1.1. Project Beach-flag V2

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.2.2 Webdigital tools and materials

PUBLISHED ON 19/09/2023
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2.2.2 - FlyerENG

PUBLISHED ON 17/07/2021
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2.2.2 - FlyerHR

PUBLISHED ON 17/07/2021
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2.2.2 - FlyerITA

PUBLISHED ON 11/08/2021
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D 2.2.3 Mobile Info stands with virtual reality headsets showing 360°marine environment

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D 2.2.4 Communication Evaluation Reports

PUBLISHED ON 19/09/2023
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D 2.3.1 High level international events

PUBLISHED ON 19/09/2023
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D 2.3.2 Participation to Annual Programme event, European Cooperation Day and information and training

PUBLISHED ON 19/09/2023
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D 2.3.3 Participation to external events

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.4.1 Regional info days

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.4.2 Short movievideo clip or radio spot

PUBLISHED ON 19/09/2023
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D 2.4.3 Exhibition events

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 2.4.4 Press releases issued by each Regional Communication Manager

PUBLISHED ON 19/09/2023
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D 2.4.5 Medial relation and digital communication promotion

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D 3.1.1 Creation of a technical group

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.1.2_Presentations created by each one of the technical

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.1.3_Agreement; Monitoring Marine Litter (Macro) on the Water Surface Data Sheet

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.1.3_Agreement; Microplastics Protocol

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.1.3_Agreement; Protocol for Monitoring Microplastics Litter in Biota

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.1.3_Agreement; Protocol for Visual Monitoring of Floating Litter

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D3.2.1 Report assessing the quantity and composition of marine litter for each indicator in the widening area of ML monitoring

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D3.2.2 Methodology report with the ads of the new approaches and standardization protocols

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D3.2.3 Monitoring plan to evaluate the impact of plastic pollution

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D3.3.1_n. 5 meetings of the Transnational Technical Group

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.3.2 Model of dispersion of floating waste - Part 1

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.3.2 Model of dispersion of floating waste - Part 2

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.3.3 Maps of probability of accumulation of removal of waste

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 3.3.4 Model for the calculation of the trajectories of floating objects released into the sea

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 4.1.1 - D 4.1.3 - D 4.1.5 Two steps educational marine litter program addressed to schools and Eco schools encouraging the students to take care of the marine environment developed

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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4.1.2 Short educational videos about ML in the Adriatic Sea

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 4.1.4 Report on expanding the marine litter program on the local community

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D 4.2.1 Concessionaires of beaches trained to be involved in the collection of ML according prescribed methodology

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D 4.2.2 Shellfish farming involved in the collection of ML according to prescribed methodology developed

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 4.2.3 Assessment of the quantity and composition of marine litter on at least 2 beaches for the 5 regions included in this activity

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D 4.2.4 International meeting of the beach’s concessionaires trained and involved in this activity 

PUBLISHED ON 21/09/2023
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D 4.2.5 Report on measures to be taken by the touristic sector for the conservation of the marine environment

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D4.2.6 Digital tool box sensitizing the touristic sector of the Adriatic Area

PUBLISHED ON 21/09/2023
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D 4.3.1 Creation of a list of all the actors involved in a selected coast part for each of the 6 regions involved 

PUBLISHED ON 05/10/2023
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  • D 4.3.2 Creation of 6 discussion tables in the 6 regions involved in the project 

PUBLISHED ON 05/10/2023
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D 4.3.3 Declaration of Intent/Preliminary draft of Coast agreement to promote coast agreements

PUBLISHED ON 05/10/2023
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D5.1.1 Analysis of the State of the art on Marine Litter Management

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D5.1.2 List of the main gaps deriving from missed linkages between various policies within IT and HR regulatory frameworks

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D 5.1.3 Manual with the proposals of specific agreements in order to encourage passively fished waste collection and management held by fishermen

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D5.1.4 Analysis of the management of waste on rivers and water basins from a legislative perspective both in Italy and Croatia

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D.5.2.1 Legislative gaps identified in the previous activity are put on the agenda of a discussion of an institutional

PUBLISHED ON 21/09/2023
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D5.3.1 Coordinated cross boundary Marine litter management plan

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D5.3.1 – Regional Workshop on Planning Tool

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D6.1.1 Identification of a river basins

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D 6.1.2 Creation of a discussion table involving municipalities and stakeholders for at least 2 river basins

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D 6.1.3 Declaration of Intent to start the process of drafting a river agreement for the management of the plastic waste for each one of the 2 river basins identified developed

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D6.1.4 Guidelines for the management of river waste, oriented to define and share coordinated procedures among the engaged different bodies

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D 6.1.5 Test of devices to support the collection of river waste

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D 6.2.1 Report: status of the art on thermochemical treatments of plastic marine litter 

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 6.2.2 Report: Results of the Pyrolysis tests on 250 kg marine litter treatment

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 6.2.3 Report: procedures for the thermochemical valorization of Plastic Marine Litter

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 6.3.1 Fishermen cooperatives trained on FFL actions and equipped with specifically created networks

PUBLISHED ON 15/09/2023
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D6.3.2 Installation of new patented technological tools in areas of the Puglia region used to collect marine litter to achieve the project target

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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6.4.1_6.4.2_6.4.3_6.4.4_6.4.5_Use of mussels as suitable tool for water column microplastic purification

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D 6.5.1 Report: Statistical analysis on quantity, dimensions and weight of marine litter

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D.6.5.2 – Hardware of the mechanical filtering equipment (presentation)

PUBLISHED ON 21/09/2023
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D.6.5.3 – Hardware and software for water drone control (presentation)

PUBLISHED ON 21/09/2023
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D 6.5.4 Design and implementation of autonomous mobile net array

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D 6.6.1 Survey on perception of stakeholders on the role of aquaculture on marine litter developed

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D 6.6.2 Recommendations for reducing the impact of aquaculture sector on marine litter

PUBLISHED ON 25/09/2023
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D6.7.1 Toolbox on River Barriers for plastic collection

PUBLISHED ON 05/10/2023
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D 6.7.2 Toolbox on plastic treatment in Pyrolytic small plants

PUBLISHED ON 21/09/2023
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D 6.7.3 Toolbox plastic collection in port

PUBLISHED ON 21/09/2023
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D 6.7.4 Toolbox on use of Mussels for microplastic removal

PUBLISHED ON 03/10/2023
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D 6.7.5 Toolbox on drone technologies for plastic collection

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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D 6.7.6 Toolbox on material in the aquaculture industry

PUBLISHED ON 08/09/2023
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