European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
Blue Lab LITTERDRONE
- LitterDrone will develop an innovative service for the monitoring and management of marine litter at the coastline, by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), "drones".
- Marine Litter study to support the establishment of an initial quantitative headline
- Study to support the development of measures to combat a range of marine litter sources
- Identification and Assessment of Riverine Input of (Marine) Litter
European Parliament Pilot Project
good practices for the removal of litter and derelict fishing gear from the sea.
eco-innovation programme
- upscale an innovative recycling technology, which transforms used maritime waste, mainly discarded fishning nets, trawls and ropes and taifune steel into high quality plastic raw materials
LIFE Programme (database)
SMILE – Strategies for Marine Litter and Environmental prevention of sea pollution in coastal areas
- Maremola River Basin with the municipalities of Pietra Ligure, Magliolo, Giustenice and Tovo San Giacomo. Nets in river catch and monitor litter
AMMOS reduction of smoking related litter on beaches.
- integrated information campaign for the prevention/reduction of smoking-related litter in coastal areas of Greece
GHOST - Lost or discarded fishing gears
- co-funded under the LIFE + Biodiversity Instrument of the European Union, promotes concrete measures to preserve and improve the ecological status of the rocky habitats (Tegnùe) in the north Adriatic sea. ()
DEBAG plastic bags
- project aims to develop and implement an integrated information and awareness-raising campaign for the prevention and reduction of plastic bag pollution in the marine environment in Greece.
Research - Seventh Framework Programme and Horizon2020 (leaflet)
- biotechnological solutions for the degradation and detoxification of plastic
- analysed socioeconomic costs of marine litter and instruments to prevent it
- database for priority chemical compounds, a unique database in which data on contaminants of emerging concern in seafood species are collated.
- data acquisition systems by developing innovative sensors that will contribute to our understanding of how the marine environment functions.
- A compact, unmanned, renewables-powered and self-sufficient vessel able to pick up marine litter and to treat it on board for volume reduction and energy recovery
- to raise societal awareness of both the problems and the potential solutions relating to the accumulation of marine litter.
- A computational study of the interaction between nanoplatic and model biological membranes
- High quality clothes made from marine plastic litter
European Regional Development Fund (Territorial Cooperation)
- accurate, coherent and comparable scientific data on marine litter in the Adriatic-Ionian macroregion
- a risk and impact evaluation of microplastics on the 2 Seas are
- reducing the impact of marine litter in the form of derelict fishing gear on the Baltic Sea environment
JPI Oceans
- Defining the baselines and standards for microplastics analyses in European waters
- Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics in marine ecosystems
- -Direct and indirect ecotoxicological impacts of microplastics on marine organisms
- How microplastic weathering changes its transport, fate and toxicity in the marine environment