Floating Litter, a citizen science project with ISPRA
Floating Litter is a citizen science project that we are carrying out aboard Mediterranea in collaboration with ISPRA - Higher Institute for Environmental Prevention and Research and which concerns the reporting and documentation of the presence of marine litter along our navigation route. The term [...]
Spot the Monk, an advanced citizen science project with Uni Milano-Bicocca
The Mediterranean Sea, despite constituting only 0.8% of the global ocean surface, is a unique marine basin in the world, characterized by a high biodiversity because it hosts up to 18% of all known marine species, many of which are endemic. Due to its conformation [...]
June 30, 2021 6:30 p.m. | Mediterranean Flag Celebration Day
At 6.30 pm on Wednesday 30 June 2021, the Flag of the Mediterranean will be hoisted. Flash Mob / Celebration for the first anniversary of the only flag that is good to live for, never fight, declare war or die. General call: everyone hoist [...]
Mediterranea starts again. | Expedition 2021-2023
Are you ready to go? Ready! Mediterranea starts again. The expedition of Progetto Mediterranea returns to the sea on May 1st, for a new three-year period 2021-2023 of navigation, study and research, and documents. Through meeting, study, thought, ideas, exchange, values, sources, origins, people, [...]
A United Mediterranean is not an utopia
(by Simone Perotti) Years ago, I was in charge as General Manager of a subsidiary of a USA company. I met periodically my colleagues, and all the time we had to face an apparently unsolvign problem, it was the Spanish, or the Greek, or the [...]
Mediterranean: its flag is born
Proposal No. 3 is the Mediterranean Flag. Authors: Salvatore Scollo, Hushmand Toluian and Guglielmo Persano Votes: 1797/5803 Our Press Release: The public consultation to choose the Mediterranean flag ended today at 14:00 Italian time. The initiative "A flag for the Mediterranean" was conceived by the [...]
A flag for the Mediterranean: the selection begins
(by Simone Perotti)The First Phase, that of the collection of flag proposals arrived from all those who participated in the public initiative of the Progetto Mediterranean "A flag for the Mediterranean", ended tonight. The team that worked on the anonymous reception and cataloging of the [...]
A flag for the Mediterranean. Let”s draw our flag!
Public initiative conceived and promoted by Associazione Progetto Mediterranea for the creation of a flag for the Mediterranean subcontinent. Deadline: June 15, 2020 Meaning and values The Mediterranean looks like a map of fractures, today more than ever. Yet: “(…) although the Mediterranean is disorder, [...]
The Progetto Mediterranea enjoys the honorary patronage of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism.
During the 6 years of sailing in the Mediterranean, Progetto Mediterranea has carried out a large number of meetings with intellectuals of the Mediterranean region, activists and representatives of civil society, experts of the sea and Mediterranean culture, journalists, musicians and each representative deemed suitable by [...]
Progetto Mediterranea. Final event in Genoa. The program for the arrival of Mediterranea.
Saturday, October 12th between 12:00 and 15:00 at the mooring in front of the GALATA - Museo del Mare, arrival of a "Mediterranean" boat, after 6 years of navigation throughout the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Portuguese, Spanish and Moroccan Atlantic sea, with dozens [...]
Mediterranea is in Lisbon
September 15, 2018 | Lisbon, Doca de Alcantara Crew Lagos-Lisbon, the people that closes the Route 2018. Simply, we. Our shirt, our colors, our boat, because in this week all the great Mediterranea crew was symbolically on board. With the eyes always, constantly, facing the [...]
2014-2019. Plankton and microplastics. Call to action for Mediterranea.
The "Plankton Mapping in the Mediterranean Sea" project began in 2014 with the departure of the Mediterranean journey. The project lacks funding and therefore proceeds to take advantage of the voluntary availability of Progetto Mediterranea expedition, the Mediterraneans and the marine biologist researcher who deals [...]
