Programme: INTERREG ITALY-CROATIA (Strategic Projects)
Project title: MARine Litter cross-border awarenESS and innovation actions
Acronym: MARLESS
Coordinator at the University of Dubrovnik: Marina Brailo Šćepanović, PhD
Researcher: Ivana Palunko
Duration: 2020 – 2022
Total budget: EUR 4,244,726.00
UNIDU budget: EUR 399,860.00
Web site: https://www.italy-croatia.eu
The MARLESS project will address the problem of waste in the Adriatic sea from various aspects, which includes monitoring the amount of waste in the sea, raising citizens’ awareness of this problem, pilot activities aimed at testing experimental processes of removing waste from the sea, as well as transboundary management to reduce waste which reaches the Adriatic sea.