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Ministers from the 42 Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) countries have agreed to intensify their efforts towards a sustainable blue economy in the Mediterranean. Doing so, they want to promote the recovery of the region’s economies from the COVID-19 crisis, and address the environmental and...

The BlueSkills project, led by the Italian National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS and labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean, was the protagonist of an important event within the European Science Open Forum in Trieste - ESOF2020. The seminar "Blue skills...

Deep Blue Stories #6 | Alice Affatati tackled a fascinating topic: underwater noise pollution. Her Deep Blue mobility brought her to the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB) of the UPC, in Barcelona. Alice is an engineer who fell in love with marine science, and already...

Deep Blue Stories #5 | Nouh Izem’s project for the Deep Blue Mobility was an ambitious one: “to offer a good representation of hydrological and hydraulic processes through numerical modeling in order to better manage land use and provide beneficiaries and decision makers with scientific...

On Monday 7 December will be launched the Training-of-Trainers of the Deep Blue project: "Effective management and sustainable development of fisheries resources and aquaculture" The training will be held online, from 7 to 10 December, and will host 55 participants from all over the Mediterranean...

Deep Blue Stories #4 | Doaa Hussein participated in the Deep Blue Mobility Program to accomplish a clear goal: the application of life cycle assessment methodology for sustainable production of marine fisheries in Gaza Strip-Palestine, in order to preserve quality of life adhering to sustainability...

Deep Blue Stories #3 | Sergio Rejado travelled all the way to Athens to join the Mediterranean Information Office for the Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) in very important tasks. Spread awareness among members of Parliament, journalists and educators on the blue economy challenges...

Deep Blue Stories #2 | Cherif El Khalil is one of the six candidates that participated in the Deep Blue Project in 2020. 29 years old, Moroccan, he had the opportunity to spend 6 months in the Slovenian National Institute of Biology and study the...

Deep Blue Stories #1 | Piero Fontolan participated in the Deep Blue mobility project this year, travelling to the Grecian isle of Lipsi to take part in an evaluation of the Katsadian bay. The main goal was to “evaluate how much less stress an ecosystem...

[version française à suivre] New call for participants! Training-of-Trainers “Effective management and sustainable development of fisheries resources and aquaculture”. This activity aims to build a shared advanced scientific knowledge and create a common methodological ground for high-skilled experts on Blue Growth in the Western Mediterranean...

With the outbreak of the virus Covid-19 the Euro-Mediterranean area, as well as the rest of the world, has come to a standstill. In view of the uncertainty as to when the activities of the universities, local communities, businesses and transport will return to normal...

The Training-of-trainers on Environmental monitoring techniques to manage the environmental impacts on fisheries and aquaculture has just started. The course takes place in Sfax (Tunisia) from 21 to 26 October and it is addressed to 30 researchers in the field of marine sciences coming from...