As part of a joint marine sustainability initiative, the EU-funded ODYSSEA project helped formulate its September 2021 policy document, “Nourishing Blue Economy and Sharing Ocean Knowledge: Ocean info…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s coordinator Prof. Georgios Sylaios was one of the main contributors to the development of the policy document entitled “Nourishing Blue Economy and Sharing Ocean Knowle…
A training workshop for the Marinomica platform was held online by partners of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project on 14-15 July 2021, focusing on boosting capacity development among Egyptian end-users in c…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project held on 2-3 June 2021 a Training Workshop to promote User Validation of its Marinomica Platform and to foster capacity development in Operational Oceanography, amongst Mo…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project has published findings on the distribution of offshore winds over the Thracian Sea and its potential use for energy production, concluding that two areas checked are clas…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project has launched its second Marinomica mobile marine observation unit with Moroccan partner AGIR and local authorities off the coast of Morocco’s Al-Hoceima National Park in…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project held the third annual session in its Summer School series online on 23-27 November 2020, titled “Satellite Observations & Data Processing in Operational Oceanography”…
The Mediterranean Sea is a major holiday destination and an important provider of food, energy and transport routes. Yet human activities are threatening the marine and coastal habitats and wildlife i…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA platform, as an integrated information platform, would be an important tool in the fight against marine litter, since identifying sources of rubbish and locating and mapping poll…
The team of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s Moroccan partner, the Association for Integrated Resource Management, AGIR, headed by Houssine Nibani, together with ODYSSEA project coordinator Georgios Sy…
Prof. Georgios Sylaios of the Democritus University of Thrace and project coordinator of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project has been selected by fellow Horizon 2020 project MaCoBioS (Marine Coastal Ecosyst…
The EU-funded ODYSSSEA project’s coordinator, Prof. Georgios Sylaios of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) presented ODYSSEA at the 1st SHAREMED Capitalisation workshop webinar, titled “Design…
The team of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s leading partner, the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), held a virtual session with mussel-farming producer Anastasiou Mussels, based in Olympiada, in…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s Moroccan partner the Association for Integrated Management of Resources (AGIR) launched a SeaExplorer glider in early November 2020, to monitor marine life and pollutan…
Prof. Georgios Sylaios of the Democritus University of Thrace and project coordinator of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project has been selected by fellow Horizon 2020 project MaCoBioS (Marine Coastal Ecosyst…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project participated in the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) international webinar on implementing the International Convent…
The training on observatories management will be organized from 23 to 27 November 2020. The deadline for the submission of applications is November 8th, 2020. In the framework of the EU HORIZON 2020…
Research partners of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project recently published a study on modelling salt water intrusion upstream in Greece’s Strymon River, which will allow for further development of predicti…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project consortium is currently developing a range of value-added, data-based information products to be accessed by end-users via the on-line Marinomica Platform, of which the f…
Following a summer in which coastlines across the Mediterranean region saw more jellyfish, more kinds of jellyfish, and bigger jellyfish, end-users will be happy to hear that the EU-funded ODYSSEA pro…
EU-funded ODYSSEA project partners recently published academic articles on cutting-edge use of social media and individual-based modelling for tracking and forecasting spread of invasive species. “Inv…
Marinomica – the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s key deliverable – is now in operation, and will be launched for public use in late 2020, said ODYSSEA coordinator Prof. Georgios Sylaios of the Democritus…
The Second ODYSSEA Newsletter (issue 02) was released this month (July 2020). The newsletter highlights the key achievements relating to the Marinomica Platform, Sensors and Model developments during…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project has begun a large campaign to reach out to Blue Economy industrial actors across the Mediterranean, which recently led to the agreement signed with Energean to integrate…
The Association for Integrated Resource Management (AGIR), the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s principal Moroccan partner has signed an agreement to establish and run ODYSSEA’s Moroccan marine observatory…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s marine observation platform has contributed to research on seagrass detection in the Mediterranean, and in the process helped developing a machine learning (ML) model,…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA Project was the subject of media coverage in both Morocco and Tunisia, in the context of separate events taking place on February 5 and 6, 2020 in both countries, marking World W…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project, through partners Deltares and Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), figured centrally both through the lectures and as an important new tool presented to the particip…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project held its second summer school session, focusing on Oceanography and Fisheries in the Mediterranean, from September 2 to 6, 2019, on the Greek island of Alonissos, located…
Research headed by ODYSSEA project Italian partner Davide Astasio Garcia of the Sapienza University of Rome was published by the academic journal Science of the Total Environment for its June 10, 2019…
Registration has now begun for the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s second summer school session, focusing on Oceanography and Fisheries in the Mediterranean, on September 2-6, 2019, on the Greek island of…
Stakeholders coming from a wide range of sectors present on the Turkish coast participated in the ODYSSEA workshop, held April 29-30, 2019, in Akyaka (Gökova), Muğla province. Istanbul University host…
Georgios Sylaios, coordinator of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project and professor at the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), was interviewed by Nikos Spitseris of Greece’s Center TV Pre-News program, t…
The First ODYSSEA Newsletter (Issue 01) is released this month (February 2019). The Newsletter focusses on Blue Growth and the role of ODYSSEA, the ODYSSEA End-User approach and the ODYSSEA platform….
To officially launch work on establishing the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s marine observatory at Morocco’s Al-Hoceima National Park in Morocco, ODYSSEA’s Moroccan partners, led by the Association for I…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA Project was given the opportunity to run an official “side event” highlighting its partnerships and capacity-building activities in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, as…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s Algerian partner, Nord Sud Ventures (NSV) CEO Arslan Chikhaoui, highlighted the project’s regional contributions in his presentation to the 15th North Africa Business D…
Participants in the EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s first Summer School session, held in Kavala, Greece in early September 2018, reported that the experience widened their professional horizons, strengthe…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA is one of the projects identified as concretely advancing the major goals set for the future of the Mediterranean by nations represented in the WestMED Maritime Initiative, as se…
ODYSSEA partner Sergio Martinez Navas, Principal Researcher at Leitat gave a presentation at the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society’s Workshop on Plastics in the Oceans, detailing how the observatory netw…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA Project was given pride of place at Turkey’s 13th International Symposium on Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (FABA), held November 21-24, 2018 at Ankara University. During the con…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA Project, represented by its Algerian partner, Arslan Chikhaoui, CEO of Nord Sud Ventures (NSV), participated as panelist at the First Sea Forum held in Bizerte, Tunisia on Octobe…
As Hurricane Michael tears breaks records with its landfall and march across parts of the Southeastern US, the team of the EU-funded ODYSSEA project has begun analysing how the platform and its system…
Which factors determine the distribution and presence of benthic macrophytes at the bottom of the Mediterranean? How doenvironmental conditions and humans affect and regulate the distribution of vario…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project was given pride of place at the 83rd Thessaloniki International Fair, Greece’s leading exhibition with over 1500 stands, held September 8-16, 2018. ODYSSEA was chosen as…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA Project is getting ready to host its first summer school, on Operational Oceanography for Science, Business and Society, to be held at the campus of the Akontisma Village Hotel,…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project, through partner Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), held an ecosystem modelling workshop on July 3-5, 2018, to train and coordinate with ODYSSEA partners who wi…
ODYSSEA project coordinator Prof. Georgios Sylaios presented ODYSSEA’s approach to fighting Mediterranean marine litter at the 8th Mutual Learning event held on 28 June, in the framework of the EU URB…
As an initiative of civil society and shared by some passionate about the maritime subject, the Blue Season aims to gather from June 15 to October 15, under the same label, nearly 200 initiatives and…
Prof. Georgios Sylaios, Coordinator of the ODYSSEA project, presented the EU-funded project at the 12th Panhellenic Symposium of Oceanography & Fisheries, held May 30 – June 3, 2018 at the Ionian…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project was the subject of the concluding talk at an event on applying the Ecosystem Approach in the Mediterranean, held at the National Agronomical Institute of Tunisia April 24…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project’s Tunisian partners, the National Association for sustainable development and conservation of wildlife (ANDDCVS) and Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Area…
Arslan Chikhaoui, Chairman of Algerian ODYSSEA partner Nord Sud Ventures (NSV), presented opportunities for entrepreneurship offered by the European Union strategy for Blue Growth in general, and the…
The EU-funded ODYSSEA project took the first steps toward establishing the Al Hoceima ODYSSEA marine observatory in Morocco, through local partner Association de Gestion Intégrée de Ressources (AGIR)….
The EU-funded ODYSSEA Project, represented by its Algerian partner, Nord Sud Ventures (NSV), took part in the first Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Stakeholder conference on the blue economy, held i…
On November 11th the ODYSSEA project had its first public conference in North Africa organized by its Egypt-based partner, RAED (The Arab Network for Environment andDevelopment) with the cooperation o…
At the event, ODYSSEA identified and connected with potential end users of its planned oceanography station. The EU-funded ODYSSEA Project participated in the 7th edition of the Fisheries and Aquacul…
Representatives of projects and platforms, data providers and oceanography experts addressing marine monitoring in the Mediterranean basin will meet on October 25, 2017 for a special stakeholders meet…
The ODYSSEA Project was featured at the Copernicus Marine Week, hosted by the Copernicus Marine Environment and Monitoring Service (CMEMS) in Brussels during the last week of September. ODYSSEA projec…
The Laboratory of Ecological Engineering and Technology of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) announced the opening of ODYSSEA-Greece platforms on Facebook and Twitter. Initially focusing eff…
For the second time in its first month of existence, the ODYSSEA project has been presented at a leading conference in its field, this time at the Oceans ’17 MTS IEEE Aberdeen conference, held from Ju…
Less than two weeks after its own opening conference, the EU-funded ODYSSEA project will feature at the 11th European Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Workshop, taking place in Helsinki, 19-21 June….
Prof. Georgios Sylaios reveals the observation station in Kavala. – Credit: Boaz Babai The EU-funded ODYSSEA project will hold its opening conference in the city of Kavala, Greece June 6–8, 2017. The…
