Events and News

Harmony project, restart the process for the common policy between Italian and Malta
Jul 21, 2020 08:30 PM — Jul 22, 2020 09:00 PMIn the frame of the Harmony project restart from Lampedusa the "partecipative road to build the common policy between Italy and Malta" to protect marine biodiversity in the areas of the two Countries. From 21 to 22 "Surveillance and alert systems of iInvasive alien species and protected marine areas: local actors, institutions and experts compared for the definition of shared intervention strategies".

Launched the project interreg ADRIACLIM to develop monitoring tools and adapting strategies to contrast climate change in the Adriatic area
Jul 20, 2020The project AdriaCLim "Tools of information, monitoring and climate change for the adapting strategies in the Adriatic coast areas is funded by the cooperation programme Interreg Italy-Croatia and it is coordinated by Arpae and involves 19 partner between research institutes, universities, and companies of both Countries.

A deep knowledge of our relation to the ocean to better protect it
Jul 14, 2020The decade for the ocean, i.e. the programme “United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development” , whose implementation plan will be officially presented at the end of this year, will be realized from 2021 to 2030 and devoted to the protection of seas and oceans, to the blue growth and the socio-economic development based on the many different resources offered by the ocean, whose sustainability is provided by a robust scientific knowledge of our continuous relation

Mediterranean International Day
Jul 08, 2020Mediterranean International Day Sea is celebrated on 8 July, an opportunity to raise awareness of the health of the Mare Nostrum and the dangers that threaten it.
The Mediterranean is a treasure of the marine biodiversity of the whole Planet because, despite having only an area of about 1% of all oceans, it is the habitat of over 12 thousand marine species, between 4% and 12% of the world's marine biodiversity.

Ferries as monitoring platforms of marine species
Jul 06, 2020ISPRA and Milano University of Bicocca together in order to monitor cetaceans and biodiversity of sea Mediterranean

Report EEA: Marine messages II-Navigating the course towards clean, healthy and productive seas through implementation of an ecosystem‑based approach
Jun 30, 2020"We still have a chance to restore our marine ecosystems if we act decisively and coherently and strike a sustainable balance between the way we use of seas and our impact on the marine environment" said Hans Bruyninckx, EEA executive director, referred to the current condition of the European seas highlighted by the EEA "Marine Messages II" report.
The precarious state of our seas affects the quality of life, the economy, the availability of raw materials, the production of oxygen and food, a suitable climate and even our free time and health.

International photo contest "RAMOGE - Man and the sea"
Jun 26, 2020RAMOGE Agreement* launches an international photo "RAMOGE - Man and the sea", with the wishes of the FIAP (International Federation Art Photographic) and a prestigious panle composed by Greg LECOEUR (Award for best Naturalistic photo - National Geographic, 2016), Sergio PITAMITZ ("Environmental photo-reporter of the year" - NPPA, 2016) e Pierluigi RIZZATO (8 times winner of the FIAP Nature World Cup). ISPRA invites all lovers of the sea and photography to send, by September 15, shots that tell the relationship between human activities and the Mediterranean in its many aspects.

Published the new report on the Europe's seas by European Environment Agency
Jun 26, 2020“Marine messages II: Navigating the course towards clean, healthy and productive seas through implementation of an ecosystem‑based approach”

International Angel Shark day
Jun 25, 2020On Friday 26th June, ISPRA is participating in the first ever International Angel Shark Day, and invite you to join us!


WESTMOPOCO - Mediterranean Marine Oil & HNS Pollution Cooperation
Jun 22, 2020 05:00 PM — Jun 22, 2020 07:00 PM WebinarThe Project Western Mediterranean Region Marine Oil and HNS Pollution Cooperation (West MOPoCo) supports the main Institution of Western Mediterranean (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and European (France, Italy, Malta, Spain) that are in charge in the field of preparedness for and response to oil and Highly Noxious Substances (HNS) marine pollution and in improving the quality and interoperability of their response capacities.The initiative, promoted by the UNEP-IMO Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Center for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC), has as main objective to strengthen international collaborations and cooperations on the subject.

Let’s go down to the bottom of the sea – Travelling with a submarine robot
Jun 17, 2020The book "Let's go down to the bottom of the sea - Travelling with a submarine robot ", addressed, above all (but not only), to children was inspired by the desire to tell them, in a simple and nice way, some aspects of the research activity at sea: this is how Pollux, a small underwater robot, was born. Together with his friends Astrea (the research vessel) and EM2040 (the echosounder), Pollux tells about some of the explorations carried out on the beautiful seabed of our "Blue Planet".

The first ecological beach: a new way to live the beaches
Jun 15, 2020From 27 to 28 June in Cerveteri.
On the ecological beaches of the Lazio coast will be testified new manage approaches for the Posidonia, the so-called banquette, to promote circular economy and environmental protection, as part of the Bargain project led by Ispra with the University of Tor Vergata and Enea.

Public consultation 2020 on Monitoring Program of the Marine Strategy (art. 19 Directive 2008/56/EC)
Jun 15, 2020On June 15, 2020, according to implementation of art. 16 of Legislative Decree 190/2010, the public consultation on Monitoring programs for every of the 11 Marine Strategy Descriptors has been launched, prepared by the Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea with a with the technical-scientific support of ISPRA.

AperiPelagos - Watch the dolphin! The importance of monitoring from ferry
Jun 11, 2020 09:00 PM — Jun 11, 2020 10:00 PM
8 June - World Oceans Day
Jun 08, 2020Ispra, in charge of Center INFO/RAC of the UNEP/MAP (Mediterranean Action Plan) to support Barcelona convention for Mediterranean for the Protection of the Marine Environment, today 8 June, on the occasion of UN World Oceans Day launches a digital communication campaign with a web page and dedicated initiatives.

Venice, 2019: the ”Acqua Alta” year. A focus on November events.
Jun 05, 2020The year 2019 will be remembered for the extraordinary frequency of floodings and the extremely hight sea level recorded in the city of Venice. What happened? The exceptional event of November 12, 2019 was due to the combined effect of many meteorological components: the high astronomical syzygy tide, the unusual high mean sea level of the Mediterranean Sea in November, reflecting an anomalous general atmospheric depression over the basin, a deep small-scale atmospheric pressure minimum developed over the Adriatic, moving rapidly northward and passing over the Venice lagoon and causing local winds of about 100 m/s

Presentation of the SOER 2020, Environmental Data Yearbook and System Reports
Jun 03, 2020 12:00 PM — Jun 03, 2020 03:00 PM Streaming liveThe next 3 June, in video streaming with the Italian PM Giuseppe Conte, and David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, will be presented the three reports dedicated to the environmental situation in Europe and in Italy: the SOER 2020 (State of the Environment Report), the Environmental Data Yearbook 2019 which shows the state of the environment in Italy and the System Report which presents regional experiences.
Watch streaming live:
ISPRA TV (double channel in English and Italian)
Facebook page Ispra (speaker' native language)
Youtube Ispra (only in italian)
