NEWS
Towards an EU-wide Microplastic Monitoring Campaign: First Upscaling Phase
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our EU-wide microplastic monitoring campaign, an initiative that unites secondary schools across Europe to learn on microplastic pollution in partnership with the scientific community.
This campaign empowers schools to take a leading role in monitoring microplastics in their local environments.
Campaign Overview:
This campaign empowers schools to take a leading role in monitoring microplastics in their local environments.
Campaign Overview:
- First Upscaling Phase: April to October 2024
- Participating Schools: 21 schools from 8 countries
- Objective: To harmonise data collection methods and foster collaborative learning
PAST EVENTS
- On the 26th and 27th of October 2023, the Erasmus Maris Days stood as a remarkable milestone in the journey towards marine conservation and education, endorsed as a key activity of the UN Ocean Decade.
- At the awards ceremony of the European Maritime Days (EMD) in Brest (France), the RAISE-CS project pilot of the Erasmus Maris initiative was honored with the "award for the best educational initiative".
- 20-24 March 2023: The teachers of together with their pupils carried our a microplastic assessment campaign and an environmental awareness campaign in Burriana, Spain.
- On February 17, 2023: We presented the Erasmus Maris initiative, of which RAISE-CS is a pilot project, to the European Committee of the Regions. ( https://cor.europa.eu/en/events/Pages/16th-sedec-commission.aspx).
- On January 18 2023, we organised a team-building event between the pupils of the European schools and pupils from vocational schools (including pupils with disabilities).
- On October 25 2022, we had a Stakeholder meeting at the European Commission's Joint Research centre in Geel (Belgium)
- RAISE-CS participated in the 4th ECSA Conference 2022: Citizen Science for Planetary Health, which took place 5-8 October 2022. There, we presented our project during the oral session 4: Citizen Science in education and schools.
- Our 3rd RAISE-CS project progress meeting took place in Berlin between 3-4 October 2022
- In June 2022 we had our 2nd RAISE-CS project progress meeting & Meeting with schools.
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RAISE-CS is an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Union.
