The Cypriot MARLISCO National Forum on Marine Litter took place yesterday, 15 October 2014, at the Filoxenia Conference Centre, in Nicosia, Cyprus. The Forum is the second in a series of 12 national fora taking place across Europe, which aim to capture the stakeholder’s opinions on solutions to the issue of marine litter. Key Cypriot stakeholders representing […]
Ms Xenia I. Loizidou, Dr Michael I. Loizides and Ms Demetra Orthodoxou of Isotech, have just published a paper in Marine Pollution Bulletin. The paper describes the process of evaluating the best practices collected within the MARLISCO project (www.marlisco.eu), using the DeCyDe-4 methodology that was developed by Xenia Loizidou and Michael Loizides. The paper, entitled […]
As part of its national awareness activities, MARLISCO Cyprus participated in several events over the past weeks. On Saturday, 20th September 2014, MARLISCO was a supporter of the beach cleanup organized by the U.S. Embassy in Cyprus and the NGO AKTI Project and Research Centre on the occasion of the International Coastal Cleanup Day. The […]
Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 88, Issues 1–2, 15 November 2014, Pages 118–128 doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.09.015 Abstract: Research that was undertaken to identify and evaluate best practices that can effectively minimise the amount of marine litter in European Seas is presented. Best practices were approached in a novel way that aimed to maximise the impact and added value of […]
On Saturday 20th September, Isotech Ltd, through its project MARLISCO, participated in the International Coastal Cleanup event that was organised by the U.S. Embassy in Cyprus and AKTI Project and Research Centre. With the help of volunteers, many from the American Academy Larnaca, over 9,000 marine litter items were collected from 0.25 km of beach. […]
You can read here a short but informative interview of Isotech’s Director, Ms Xenia I. Loizidou, in Fileleftheros newspaper about coastal erosion (in Greek).
ISOTECH’s Director, Xenia I. Loizidou, gave two interviews last week in Cypriot newspapers “Kathimerini” and “Cyprus Weekly” on her inclusion in the European Women in Leadership (WIL) Network, the role of women in Cyprus and 2nd gender bias. You can read the interview in “Kathimerini” here (in Greek) and the interview in “Cyprus Weekly” here […]
We are very proud to announce that Xenia I. Loizidou, Director of ISOTECH, is a new member of the Europe Network for Women In Leadership and the first Cypriot to become a member of WIL. WIL’s mission statement: “WiL’s first mandate is to offer to top level women a platform to network in order to […]
ISOTECH Ltd has been appointed by Frederick University to develop and implement the DeCyDe-4-Biodiversity decision support method, to evaluate and prioritize the measures that have been proposed in the National Biodiversity Strategy, using a participatory approach that will capture the opinions of the key actors and stakeholders in Cyprus. The resulting prioritized list of measures will […]
The third steering committee meeting for the project ‘Integrated Regional monitoring Implementation Strategy in the South European Seas’ (IRIS -SES) will take place on Tuesday 8 July 2014 in Athens. Isotech Ltd will be represented by Demetra Orthodoxou, who will provide an outline of the thus far progress and upcoming plans for the development and […]