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The prospects of diving tourism in Cyprus

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This Friday, 27th June, Isotech’s Director Ms Xenia Loizidou will give a presentation on the prospects of diving tourism in Cyprus. Ms Loizidou will present at the Zenobia Week event “Developing a diving destination of excellence’, while representing the Cyprus Tourism Organisation. The event will take place at the Larnaka Municipal Historical Archives-Museum, located in […]

Creating artificial reefs

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This past Sunday (22nd June 2014) the boat Laboe was sunk, 2km off the coast of Yeroskipou Plaz, as part of the efforts to create artificial reefs around the island of Cyprus that will replenish the fish stock and increase revenues from diving tourism. Ms Xenia Loizidou, representing on this occasion the Cyprus Tourism Organisation, […]

MARLISCO as a best practice example of a lifecycle approach to marine litter

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The FP7 Science-in-Society project MARLISCO, of which Isotech Ltd is the lead partner in Cyprus, has been included as a best practice example of Implementing a lifecycle approach to marine litter in the recently published EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian macro-region action plan. To read the entire action plan click here. To find out more about […]

A presentation about marine litter

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Ms Xenia I. Loizidou, Civil and Coastal Engineer and ISOTECH’s directo, gives a very interesting and informative presentation about marine litter – sources, causes and effects – during the Cypriot MARLISCO Video Contest Awards held at the University of Nicosia on the 26th March 2014.

The MARLISCO Video Contest Winners Meet in Bremen!!

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      The winners of the MARLISCO Video Contest from all 14 participating countries will meet this weekend in Bremen! With the slogan ‘Bremen Here We Go!’  a group of over 110 students will participate in two days of events that are taking place in the German city that is rich in maritime history. […]

The MARLISCO Video Contest Awards Ceremony

The Awards Ceremony for the MARLISCO Video Contest in Cyprus took place on the 26th of March 2013 at CINE Studio at the University of Nicosia. The Ceremony was combined with the opening of the MARLISCO Exhibition on Marine litter. You can watch the entire ceremony on the above video. Congratulations to all the contest […]

Coastal adaptation to climate changes through an Integrated Coastal Zone Management approach: from theory to practice

Presented at the ADAPTtoCLIMATE International Conference, 27-28 March 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus By: Xenia I. Loizidou and Michael I. Loizides Abstract Some of the major issues within an ICZM concept, including climate changing parameters, seek answers to the following questions: how to allocate coastal resources in order to maximize their efficiency, how to assess the impact […]

Marine Litter and Best Practices: the MARLISCO Case for Enhancing Social Co-Responsibility

Presented at the GreInSus 14 The International Congress on Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Societies/ Cities, May 8-10, 2014, Izmir, Turkey By: Xenia I. Loizidou, Michael I. Loizides and Demetra Orthodoxou Abstract Marine litter is a key threat to marine habitats, economic and social wellbeing.The research, conducted within the framework of the FP-7 funded project MARLISCO […]

Best practices for reducing marine litter and promoting co-responsibility and social awareness: the MARLISCO experience

Presented at the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WILD 10), 4-10 October 2013, Salamanca, Spain By: Demetra Orthodoxou, Xenia I. Loizidou and Michael I. Loizides MARLISCO ‘MARine Litter in Europe Seas: Social AwarenesS and CO-Responsibility’, is an FP-7 funded project that aims to develop and evaluate an approach that can be used to address the problems […]