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Re-establishment of the Ribbed Limpet (Patella ferruginea) in Ligurian MPAs by Restocking and Controlled Reproduction (RE.LIFE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Background The geomorphological features of the Portofino MPA promontory favour the development of a rich and highly diversified benthic fauna and flora. The area hosts the most important shallow-water coral population of the Ligurian Sea and contains significant gorgonian populations. The fish community includes such species as the brown grouper, brown m ...
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WHALE protection from Strike by Active cetaceans detection and alarm issue to ships and FErries in pelagos sanctuary (LIFE WHALESAFE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background The Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals is a special marine protected area in the north-western Mediterranean Sea. It is located between Liguria, France and Sardinia and covers an area of around 90 000 km2. The sanctuary is the most important breeding and feeding site for cetacean populations living in the Mediterranean Sea and t ...
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Ligurian Invasive Fauna Eradication pro indigenous Emys orbicularis restocking (LIFEEMYS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Background The practice of “cleaning” river beds using excavators and bulldozers, formerly favoured by local authorities in the Centa plain, has led to the loss of most river bed pools in the area. Most of the few scattered pools that are left are in isolated positions peripheral to river beds and are thus more subjected to in-filling. They also face ...
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Sea For Society (SFS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Sea for Society (SFS) has brought together a multidisciplinary partnership of 21 partners from 11 countries representing marine research institutes, funding agencies, science museums and aquaria, CSO’s, NGO’s, higher education institutes, business networks, to implement a MMLAP to address Specific Challenge 3: Marine Resources, inland activities & sustainable development. SFS will mobilise researc ...
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SSL for illumination of city centres and exposition buildings (ILLUMINATE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The ILLUMINATE project will assess SSL applicability and benefit as in high quality urban areas and in buildings hosting expositions and museums when light quality is un uncompromising requirement and SSL use is still problematic. By exploiting innovative lighting solutions and their integration with intelligent control systems and different innovative use of lighting as permitted by SSL (colour, ...
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Food Information and Safeguard of Habitat a Sustainable Consumption Approach in Local Environment (FISH SCALE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Background The commercial fish market is heavily concentrated on certain fish species. As a consequence, some edible species have a low commercial value due to poor demand. According to the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, out of 719 edible fish species only 10% are currently commercialised. This is mainly due to modern food habits. No ...
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Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas (HERMIONE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will in ...
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"Action on Climate Change through Engagement, Networks and Tools" (ACCENT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"Fifteen relevant organisations among science centres, science museums and aquariums will be engaged by this proposal ACCENT in a coordination action aimed at rationalising their two-way communication practices and at strengthening their collaborations with the scientific community on climate change issues. Climate change issues are clearly a growing concern for the public today. In recent years, ...
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