The European Commission has newly adopted an updated action plan for a sustainable, resilient and competitive blue economy in the…
One of the CLAIM technologies, the pyrolizer, was successfully tested in the last week of July 2020 at the National…
CLAIM research article ranks in the top three most demanded articles of the past year. ‘Visible light photocatalytic degradation of…
Are you a start-up or an SME working on marine plastic? Then you can support research on innovations and solutions…
CLAIM took part in the fifth International Conference on New Business Models (NBM 2020) on the 1st and 2nd July…
article by EarthSky A new study estimates that more than 1,000 tons of microplastics from the air – equivalent to…
Andromeda, HOTMIC, FACTS, i-plastic, microplastiX and RESPONSE are the six new projects conducting research on microplastics, including their sources, the…
All of us at CLAIM have a strong protective feeling of the waters of the planet Earth. Our goal is…
EU project CLAIM develops innovative technologies, which can minimise the increasing amount of plastics in European seas, including those resulting…
article by The Guardian Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate Plastic pollution is known to…
For the third time in a row, CLAIM participated in the BlueMed event on 20 January 2020. This year’s edition…
article by Deutsche Welle Single-use masks, gloves and bottles of sanitizer shielding us from the spread of COVID-19 are ending…
In an effort to tackle plastic litter through a legislative action along the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular…
A literature review by CLAIM researchers Hanna Dijkstra, Pieter van Beukering and Roy Brouwer analyses business models for sustainable plastic…
The CLAIM project is proud to have participated in the BlueInvest Day 2020 on 4 February 2020 in Brussels to…
CLAIM took part in the Tunisian event Forum Blue Economy, which brought together stakeholders, aiming to support the sustainability of…
Over 70 Greek representatives of international academic and research organisations came together at the Plastic Busters MPAs Info Day, held…
The international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) interviewed the CLAIM coordination team about the battle against plastic pollution and how…
Over 30 experts from CLAIM gathered in Copenhagen for a second annual meeting to discuss the project progress halfway through…
CLAIM took part in the Science Festival (Fête de la science) in Marseille, France, to raise awareness about the plastic…
 This video is a two-minute explanation of what the project is all about, including the main objectives and some…
The CLAIM project participated in two events part of the European Researchers’ Night (NIGHT): a pre-event in Lavrio that took…
What will the world be like in ten years? How do we want to live in 2029? These are some…
Joydeep Dutta, Professor of Materials Physics and Nanophysics and leading researcher within CLAIM has been acknowledged by the KTH Royal…
New report published as part of the AMARE project to provide advice and practical guidance, for establishing programmes to monitor…
CLAIM’s partner and developer of one of 5 marine cleaning technologies – the floating boom – New Naval participated in…
Not long ago we’ve published a press release about the latest development in CLAIM’s nanocoating technology designed to harness visible…
Focused on finding solutions for cleaner seas, CLAIM took part at the largest EU event on the topic – the…
CLAIM was featured with one of its 5 marine cleaning technologies in the CORDIS News section accommodating updates about the…
CLAIM’s prototype novel boom was filmed by the TV station SKAI for the television programme ECONEWS that was broadcast on…
On February 22, 2019, an HCMR CLAIM team visited the Arsakeio Primary School of Psychiko, within the context of awareness…
CLAIM’s floating boom, one of the five innovative technologies and processes on prevention and management of on-site cleaning and treating…
Low density polyethylene film (LDPE) microplastic fragments, successfully degraded in water using visible-light-excited heterogeneous ZnO photocatalysts. The innovative nanocoating technology…
CLAIM partners HCMR and Waste et Water SARL completed the first sampling of microplastic at the Megara Waste Water Treatment…
CLAIM’s coordinator Dr. George Triantafyllou participated on Friday 25th January 2019 in the BLUEMED 2nd Project Coordinators’ Meeting: Sustaining the…
“For a week, Camogli becomes a European center of new technologies designed to clean our seas from plastics. The Institute…
For the thirteenth time in a row the European Researchers’ Night takes place in over 300 cities across Europe and in neighboring countries to promote science in an engaging way.
Experts working with microplastic pollution in the ocean conducted a public workshop on May 17 in Stockholm examining innovative ways to reduce marine litter and its impact.
CLAIM’s Co-coordinator Dr. Nikoleta Bellou, HCMR, together with WP3 leader Marco Faimali, ISMAR-CNR, took part in a panel dedicated to “Improving Resource Efficiency and Accelerating Innovation to Increase Circularity – Innovation”.
CLAIM was featured in the exhibition through a slideshow and information panel located in the Cleaning Solutions container, as well as with detailed project information placed in the Joint Solution Center.
The cost of sea litter in the EU has been estimated at up to €630 million per year. It is mostly composed…
On 11 & 12 January 2018, the initiative held a Coordinators meeting in Malta, where important projects relevant to its aims and objectives were also presented.
Accepting the kind invitation of Dr. Jamileh Javidpor, Coordinator of the GoJelly project, CLAIM’s Co-coordinator, Dr. Nikoleta Bellow (HCMR) took part in the GoJelly project kick-off meeting.
Cleaning marine Litter by developing and Applying Innovative Methods (CLAIM) is an EU Horizon 2020 project whose remit is to find new ways of tackling pollution in marine areas, with a specific focus on the Mediterranean and the Baltic Seas.
The official kick-off of CLAIM: Cleaning marine Litter by developing and Applying Innovative Methods took place in November, on Crete,…
The Newly funded, EU Horizon 2020 project CLAIM targets increasing pollution in marine areas by focusing on the development of innovative cleaning technologies and approaches.
An EU-funded project to harness the Sun’s radiation to rid the oceans of plastic begins with a system developed at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
During its kick-off period, on 06 October 2017, CLAIM had the pleasure to be invited to the European Parliament offices in Athens by Giorgos Grammatikakis, elected Member of the European Parliament for Greece.