M.O.R.E mora (Youth for the Preservation of the Diverse Marine Ecosystem) is an educational project focused on non-institutional education for young people composed of a short course on Biodiversity of the Adriatic and field research (data collection by young people) to create educational tools tailored to them - educational diving booklets! The Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea is an area of exceptional biological importance and an attractive tourist destination. The conservation status of this coast and submarine needs to be maintained and improved, but there are many threats to the conservation of biological and landscape diversity - intensive tourism, illegal construction, pollution, ignorance. For several years now, the Society has been advocating and working intensively together with several organizations to establish a research and education center on the island of Silba, which would conduct various biological and environmental research and education for Croatian and foreign students. In coastal areas,...
Ne KLIMAjte perisku! is an educational-research project aimed at acquainting the public with the manifestations of climate change in the sea and researching strictly protected noble pen shell that are potentially endangered. Familiar with current events, public engagement is growing - by reducing the impact, adaptation and preparedness for climate change. The noble pen shell is endemic and the largest shellfish in the Mediterranean and can grow up to 120 cm in height. It is widespread throughout the Adriatic on the sedimentary bottom of shallow coastal areas, and many of us know it by different names: lostura, loščura, palastura. The ecological role of this species is extremely important because it filters and retains large amounts of organic matter from suspended detritus, which contributes to increasing the transparency of seawater. In addition, it provides a hard base for colonization in soft seabed areas by numerous algae, sponges, polychaetes, mosses and other...
The EVS program is part of the Erasmus + EU program that enables young people from all over Europe to volunteer, learn, travel and improve their social and professional skills by volunteering in another country. With this project, we hosted one volunteer (Carolina) for a period of several months as a part of “Marine Ecology and Nature Protection in the Adriatic – MENPA” project. The project enabled Carolina to become an integral part of the Society and participate in all the activities of the association, from educational projects to those of research. As a great lover and connoisseur of sharks, Carolina complemented our educational program and held numerous lectures to young students from Croatia and around the world about her area of interests. Also, she gave the students an insight into numerous options for inclusion in the work of associations and organizations through volunteering in projects such as the EVS...
Within the educational project "From the sea to the library", series of lectures and workshops were held for pupils of primary schools on various topics: Deep Sea, Fish and Fisheries and Marine litter - Plastic and Microplastics. These workshops were held in the libraries of towns of Zadar County - in Obrovac, Sali on Dugi otok and Silba. Through an interactive lecture, workshop and interesting games, the pupils had the opportunity to get acquainted with the many interesting facts and dangers that the sea is hiding. Obrovac Sali Project was supported by Zadar County (Zadarske županije).
An educational project aimed at raising the awareness of Zadar's local population about the biodiversity of the Adriatic Sea, the threats to this biodiversity and the conservation measures necessary to maintain the health of the marine ecosystem, and the danger that marine litter poses to the sea and the coast. Project activities were the preparation of educational lectures and the production of a short screening on the protection of the Adriatic Sea and the threat posed by microplastic for the marine ecosystem and for people. Education was held as a part of Marine Tuesday at Public Library and in Primary School Šimun Kožičić Benje, Puntamika department. Children were familiarized with the problem of microplastic, small particles of plastics resulting from the decomposition of larger pieces under the influence of solar energy that become smaller and smaller, entering into the food chain of marine organisms and as a foreign body, with...
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