From the BESTMEDGRAPE experience the Fertiwaste team was born, putting together the know-how of Michela and Fabiano fron Italy: she studied Food Technology and has some experience in the food and the agricultural sector while he is a researcher in biotechnology and environmental engineering.

In the highly contaminated area of Arborea (region of Sardinia, Italy), the MENAWARA project aims at mitigating the effects of groundwater nitrate concentration with the installation of a Forested Infiltration Area (FIA) system.

Workers took advantage of the good weather conditions to resume operations after an unexpected interruption due to the breakage of key machinery.

The Confederation of Egyptian European Business Associations - CEEBA, iHERITAGE project partner in Egypt has successfully signed a Research Agreement with the Raquda Foundation for Art and Heritage that aims to preserve and document the intangible cultural heritage of Alexandria, Egypt.

Not so long ago, Malta has ranked highest in the world for the fragility of its biodiversity and ecosystems

FISH MED NET takes you to meet Hedi Mekni, international expert on the situation of Public Private Partnerships in Tunisia.

Association Tunisienne pour le Développement de la Pêche Artisanale - FISH MED NET project: Testimony of Mr. Hedi Mekni, Legal and Public Private Partnership (PPP) international expert on the situation of PPP in Tunisia and the different mechanisms for its implementation in the framework of Small Scale Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Malak Rammal, a 21 years old Speech Therapist in Lebanon.

As many Lebanese residents, Malak and her family searched for means to sustain in challenging living conditions and came up with a brilliant idea of producing dairy products that can be preserved outside the fridge, thus endure the electricity shortage and save the energy consumption for both the producer and the consumer.

The Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, leader of the PPI4MED project, has launched a series of pills of the selection of the technological offer, proposed in the last sessions of the living lab held in Spain in 2022.

Under the MED4EBM project, the Tunisian partner, the Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer is looking for a GIS and DB expert to join MED4EBM team. 

The university of Patras, one of the Greek partner of GreenBuilding project, welcomed Panoraia! She is an Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) for GreenBuilding project.

In her first interview for the 1^st month in IVY she said “Αs an IVY project partner, during this first month, I have taken on various tasks related to GreenBuilding project such as researching energy measurement tools for buildings, supporting my colleagues in their activities and participating in a conference”.

Plastic accounts for 80% of the marine litter dispersed in the marine and coastal environment: of the over 90,000 objects collected on the beaches and analyzed using scientific protocols, harmonized among the different project partners, 17,000 (around 20%) were cigarette butts, and 6,000 were cotton buds. Of the over 700 specimens from 6 fish species that were analysed, one out of three fish ingested microplastics and more than half of the analyzed sea turtles were found to have ingested litter.