After three years of work, PEPSEA project activities were concluded with the Final Conference held on Monday, June 13, 2022 at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Historical Sciences in Zadar.

The event was organized by Zadar County Development Agency - ZADRA NOVA, the Lead Partner of the PEPSEA project, and was attended by representatives of the entire project partnership, public institutions, and response centers.

It has been three years of intense work, certainly not facilitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shown how true cooperation can make a difference, leading to valuable results.

"When we started implementing this project in 2019, we were living in a different world" says Marina Dujmović Vuković, Director of the ZADRA NOVA Agency - "The world before the pandemic, before the price spike, before supply chains broke down. All this, then unthinkable, became reality during the implementation of this project. But with cooperation we have overcome all this and have reached today's stage, the stage where the project administratively ends".

A stage in which all the results achieved by the project were expertly narrated and shown to the public throughout the interventions conducted by the project partners. A stage in which it was possible to show how, through PEPSEA, the pilot locations in the Adriatic were successfully and adequately equipped, as well as the intervention teams. A stage where it was possible to show how, together, it is truly possible to defeat marine pollution in the Adriatic.