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Description of the project

Acronym
AQUA-LIT
Title
Preventing measures for aventing the discarding of litter in the marine environment from the aquaculture industry
Summary
AQUA-LIT’s main objective is to provide the aquaculture sector with a toolbox that can provide existing, upcoming and already implemented tools, case studies, best practices, a database and links between stakeholders for addressing the 3 main components of marine littering: prevention & reduction, monitoring & quantification, and removal & recycling.
Start year
2019
End year
2020
Funding programme
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
Programme Scope
European
Coordinator institution
Geonardo Environmental Technologies Ltd.
Coordinator email
mariana.mata.lara@geonardo.com
Coordinator country
Hungary
Other institutions involved
Geonardo Environmental Techonolgies Ltd., GEO (Hungary); European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology, EurOcean (Portugal); Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ (Belgium); Sustainable Projects, s.Pro (Belgium); Instituto Español de Oceanografía, IEO (Spain); Fundo Regional para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FRCT (Portugal); Societe d'exploitation du centre national de la mer, Nausicaa (France)
Other countries involved
Portugal
Spain
Belgium
Germany
France
Project Budget (in euros)
587,250
Website
https://aqua-lit.eu/
Other relevant information
Funding Programme: EASME/EMFF/2017/1.2.1.12/S2/04/SI2.789391
Number of Resources
17