The beneficiaries of the project Raising Public Awareness and Reducing Marine Litter for Protection of the Black Sea Ecosystem - LitOUTer (BSB785) are organising during 31 October-2 November 2022, an international symposium with the slogan “Common Sea, Common Solution”.
Marine litter is known as an important environmental problem in the Black Sea. This problem can be reduced by individual, social, institutional, and international cooperation awareness actions. Legal infrastructures regarding marine litter have been almost completed within the framework of national and international directives also national legislation, however, the expected positive outcomes have not been achieved due to the lack of public awareness.
LitOUTer project aims to raise awareness among children (primary, secondary, and high school) and adults (university students, housewives, religious leaders, fisheries, agriculture, tourism sector, public institutions, and NGOs) through training and education activities supported by awareness materials appropriate to the level of interest of each stakeholder.
In the project, the transportation of solid wastes triggered by humans from the source to the sea, their accumulation, ecological, social, and public health effects have been revealed, and the motivation to find solutions to the common problem has been developed.
Within the scope of the project, the entry, transport, and accumulation of waste from the source to the sea was modelled, and the magnitude of the effect was presented visually to the decision-makers and stakeholders. The national and international results of the project activities and studies on marine litter for twenty-six months will be presented in this symposium.
Note: The symposium will be hybrid (face-to-face and online) and the working language will be English (Turkish-English-Turkish translation will be provided).
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Read more on the project website: LitOUTer.