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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 […]

Marine Litter: Social Awareness and Co-responsibility

Presented at the Global Congress on ICM: Lessons Learned to Address New Challenges (MEDCOAST 2013) By: Joana M. Veiga, Thomas K. Doyle, Bonny Hartley, Richard Thompson, Peter Kershaw, Thomie Vlachogianni, Iro Alampei, Demetra Orthodoxou, Xenia I. Loizidou, Matthias Mossbauer and Luigi Alcaro Abstract Marine Litter – any human-made item that accidently or purposely reaches the coastal or […]

A Novel Best Practices Approach: the MARLISCO Case

Presented at the Global Congress on ICM: Lessons Learned to Address New Challenges (MEDCOAST 2013) By: Xenia I. Loizidou, Michael I. Loizides and Demetra Orthodoxou Abstract 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 […]

A Presentation on Addressing Marine Litter

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Isotech’s Demetra Orthodoxou is an invited speaker at the Mediterranean Conference on Combating Marine Litter in the Adriatic MacroRegion, which is organised by MIO-ECSDE within the framework of the DeFishGear Project. The Conference will take place on the 12th and 13th of May 2014 in Athens. Ms Orthodoxou will present MARLISCO’s collection of best practices […]

Xenia Loizidou at the GREINSUS Conference

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Isotech’s Director, Xenia I. Loizidou, was an invited speaker at the Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Societies/Cities (GREINSUS) Conference, which took place in Izmir, Turkey, between the 8th and 10th of May 2014. Ms Loizidou presented a paper entitled ‘Marine Litter and Best Practice: the MARLISCO Case for Enhancing Co-Responsibility‘ and also chaired the session on “Marine Sciences and […]

The winners of the MARLISCO Video Contest

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The MARLISCO Video Contest has finished and the winners have been announced: 1st Place: Atitlo PkP Bees (by Apostles Peter and Paul Lyceum, Limassol) 2nd Place: Καρναβάλι Σκουπιδιών (‘Carnival of Litter’ by St Charalambos Lyceum, Emba, Paphos) 3rd Place: Όλοι Μαζί (‘All Together’ by 1st Lyceum of Ethnarch Makarios III, Paphos) Honorary Mention for Music: […]