The CleanAtlantic Final Conference was held online on the past 15th June. More than 150 participants attended the conference and learnt about project outcomes and contributions to tackle the marine litter problem. The event showcased the project achievements and results, bringing togerther project partners and the wide maritime stakeholder community. A panel of experts closed…
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Today we are interviewing Tomasz Dabrowski from the Marine Institute. Question: Why did you join the CleanAtlantic project? Answer: Marine Institute is the State agency responsible for marine research, technology development and innovation in Ireland. We provide scientific and technical advice to Government to help inform policy and to support the sustainable development of Ireland’s…
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Today we are interviewing Camille Lacroix from the Cedre. Question: Why did you join the CleanAtlantic project? Answer: We joined the CleanAtlantic project with the aim of sharing and developing our knowledge and expertise on marine litter in collaboration with neighbour country partners. Our organization manages the national beach litter monitoring program for the French…
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Hello Jesús and thank you for having a chat with us today! Question: Why did you join the CleanAtlantic project? Answer: I was in the project since the first discussions. CleanAtlantic help us to increase our cooperation and coordination with other EU member states. This is critical for the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Question: How…
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Hello Vicente and thank you for having a chat with us today! Question: Why did you join the CleanAtlantic project? Answer: We were involved in previous Interreg projects with CETMAR on modelling activities related to oil transport. On the other hand, since long time ago, one of the main activities of our research group was…
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Hello Garbiñe, thank you for having a chat with us today! Question: Why did you join the CleanAtlantic project? Answer: Intecmar is an institute dedicated to the quality control of the marine environment, therefore we are very interested in all matters related to pollution and in particular with plastic pollution. For this reason, from the…
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Today we are interviewing the CETMAR team, coordinator of the CleanAtlantic project. Why did you join the CleanAtlantic project? Answer: Tackling marine pollution on its different aspects of prevention, response and mitigation has been a key line of work in CETMAR from its creation in 2001 and the driver of relevant collaborative EU projects and…
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The 52nd Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics – Towards understanding and assessing human impacts on coastal marine environments, will take place in Liège, Belgium on the 25th to 29th May 2020. The colloquium would like to gather an interdisciplinary community of scientists in order to overview the progresses in our capabilities to understand, monitor and forecast the…
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On the 6-7 february 2020, CleanAtlantic will be presented by our colleagues from CRPM in the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum, which will be organised by the European Commission in Brussels. The objective of this event is to shape the future of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research, to network and join leading political and ocean leaders including youth, researchers, entrepreneurs, academics…
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The last CleanAtlantic Workshop was held on the 9th December in Portugal, in the Conference Centre of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon. The Workshop was focused on Marine Litter Modelling, and particularly on the CleanAtlantic contribution to the numerical modelling of marine litter in the Atlantic Area. Project partners from IST, INTECMAR and USC contributed to…
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