To mark the end of the four and a half year project duration, CLAIM presents a five-minute video showcasing the…
This press release has been published in EurekAlert! and in AlphaGalileo. Did you know that the EU targets the improvement…
The latest publication in CLAIM’s research topic in Frontiers in Marine Science journal presents the most important aspects that should…
A recently published article in CLAIM’s research topic in Frontiers in Marine Science journal investigates the distribution, abundance, size, and…
Having steadily increased with global production, the presence and accumulation of plastic debris is nowadays recogniсed as a major environmental…
A recently published article in CLAIM’s research topic in Frontiers in Marine Science journal studies the economy specialised in fisheries…
The tenth article from CLAIM’s research topic, published in Frontiers in Marine Science journal analyses microplastics in the Mediterranean region….
Another impactful study, the ninth publication in CLAIM’s research collection in Frontiers in Marine Science journal, puts its focus on…
A CLAIM-funded research paper titled Public Perceptions of Marine Plastic Litter: A Comparative Study Across European Countries and Seas became…
A recently published article in the research collection of CLAIM in Frontiers in Marine Science journal aims to quantify the…
A recently published review paper in CLAIM’s research topic in the Frontiers in Marine Science journal examines previous studies about…
The CLAIM project is reaching the final stages of the project duration, however, the project is yet actively working towards…
The fifth article published in CLAIM’s research topic in the Frontiers in Marine Science journal, reviews CLAIM’s innovative technology –…
An article published in CLAIM’s research topic in the Frontiers in Marine Science journal, proposes a bridge-building, spatial cost-benefit optimisation…
A CLAIM-funded research paper titled “Modeling the Pathways and Accumulation Patterns of Micro- and Macro-Plastics in the Mediterranean” is published…
A recent article from CLAIM’s research topic in Frontiers in Marine Science journal investigates the distribution patterns of surface floating…
CLAIM has published a set of deliverables (results derived from the project) in the library of the website. Project partners…
CLAIM has been featured in the recently published by CORDIS information pack, that showcases 34 research projects funded through the…
The first publication in CLAIM’s research topic in the Frontiers in Marine Science journal, examines the evidence on the societal…
Did you know that more than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year? CLAIM project…
With the holidays knocking on our door, all partners at CLAIM want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a…
Between 29-30 November 2021, CLAIM participated at The Gulf of Finland Science Days in Tallinn, Estonia. This year’s edition of…
On 24 November 2021 CLAIM’s Project Manager Dr. George Trianthaphyllidis gave an insightful presentation to the 4th grade students at…
On 25-27 October 2021, CLAIM held the project’s fourth annual assembly meeting, which due to COVID-19 restrictions has been organised…
A recent news item from the Washington Post states that the world has generated about 8 million tons of pandemic…
The new report, “Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action: Regional Results from Eastern and Southern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Southeast…
On 4 November 2021, the member of the European Parliament (MEP) Carmen Avram is hosting an online conference on “Marine…
CLAIM releases its second policy brief: Public perceptions of plastic litter across European regions
Plastic pollution in our oceans and seas is threatening marine and coastal ecosystems and the services they provide, particularly tourism,…
CLAIM recently launched a new research topic under the title “Cleaning Litter by Developing and Applying Innovative Methods in European…
In the first weeks of October, CLAIM’s project coordinator Prof. George Triantafyllou gave an interview for Creta TV and the…
On 14 September 2021, CLAIM was glad to participate at the “Unlocking the potential of Ports and harbours in preventing…
CLAIM will hold its 4th annual meeting from 25 to 27 October 2021 in a virtual environment. The aim of…
A new CLAIM-supported research article, published in the open-access Journal of Hazardous Materials proposes a novel strategy for the elimination…
In the past century, many infections evolved into pandemics, and 2 of them were Coronaviruses: SARS-Cov-1 in 2003 and MERS-CoV…
The team of CLAIM is very happy to announce its participation in the European Maritime Day in My Country (EMD)…
Marine litter pollution, including plastic litter, is a complex issue that has become one of the major environmental challenges of…
The Region of Crete organised a series of workshops, within the framework of CAPonLITTER, a project, which aims at improving…
The most recent issue of Science for Environment Policy news and information services has published an article about a recent…
Although the challenge to manage the production, use and fate of the most polluting human-made items on our planet still…
After successfully carrying out a series of eight outstanding webinars LOOPS marked the end of season one. To celebrate the…
On the occasion of World Ocean Week 2021, the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project CLAIM and Pensoft Publishers organised an…
A recent CLAIM-funded study investigates the financial drivers and barriers for the adoption and diffusion of marine litter clean-up technologies…
While the final year of CLAIM is running and we are at the last stage of developing our technologies, the…
On 1 June 2021 CLAIM is going to take part in a Cluster Meeting organized by the European Research Executive…
CLAIM’s developments are gaining tremendous popularity as the European Commission published a video created by our project partner IRIS s.r.l.,…
The latest issue of Science for Environment Policy news and information service has published an article, investigating the high levels…
CLAIM has been invited and successfully participated in the LOOPS webinar. LOOPS is a public initiative in the form of…
CLAIM is aiming at creating innovative and sustainable technologies, which will induce the spread of marine plastic pollution. One such…
An insightful presentation was given by CLAIM’s project coordinator Dr. George Triantaphyllidis, to the 5th grade students at the 2nd…
Pursuing the aim for clean seas, CLAIM is eager to prevent the spread of micro- and macroplastics through the development…
Towards the aim of preventing marine litter to enter the sea, CLAIM is utilising various innovative technologies, created to maintain…
The rapid global production and the presence, and accumulation of plastic is being recognised a major environmental issue, which is…
MAELSTROM and In-No-Plastic are the two sister projects, recently funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, which aim at…
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched a short promotional video to tackle marine plastic pollution in…
CLAIM-funded research article, overviewing the business management solutions for marine plastic is now available in the Marine Pollution Bulletin journal….
Horizon 2020 project ATLAS has conducted groundbreaking research expeditions, discovering new marine species and making a step change in the…
CLAIM-funded research article investigating the microplastics (MPs) accumulation in wild and cultured mussels is available in the open-access Ocean Science…
article by European Parliament Single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers to be banned by 2021 90% collection target…
CLAIM co-funded research paper is available in the Deep-Sea Research Part II: Tropical Studies in Oceanography journal. An international team…
CLAIM wishes you a very happy and prosperous new year! The emergence of Covid-19 made the past year rather challenging….
A research paper by the CLAIM partner institution IRIS is now available in the Procedia Environmental Science, Engineering and Management…
CLAIM is wishing you a charming Holiday Season and a refreshing New Year!
An intriguing research article, conducted by CLAIM’s team of international experts, is now available in the Frontiers in Environmental Science…
CLAIM has the goal to reduce plastic pollution in the seas by implementing innovative technologies. As such, the project had…
CLAIM held its third annual meeting from 2 to 4 November 2020 in an online environment, with the goal to…
As of today, two new and innovative technologies study the Mediterranean waters and measure data, valuable for the purification of…
Researchers, amongst whom is the CLAIM partner Technical University of Denmark (DTU), conducted an experimental investigation on the Ingestion and…
From 22 to 24 September, CLAIM participated in the Science Is Wonderful! exclusively online exhibition, which has an already established…
CLAIM participated in the BlueMed e-training course on Understanding and Acting for a healthy plastic-free Mediterranean Sea, which took place…
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 1 and 2 July 2020….
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…
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…
The Mediterranean is considered a ‘hot spot’, as it is sensitive to both human pressure resulting from higher population and…
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…
For the third time in a row, CLAIM participated in the BlueMed event on 20 January 2020. This year’s edition…
CLAIM took part in the Tunisian event Forum Blue Economy, which brought together stakeholders, aiming to support the sustainability of…
The international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) interviewed the CLAIM coordination team about the battle against plastic pollution and how…
Over 70 Greek representatives of international academic and research organisations came together at the Plastic Busters MPAs Info Day, held…
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…
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 in the largest EU event on the topic – the…
CLAIM’s partner and developer of one of 5 marine cleaning technologies – the floating boom – New Naval participated in…
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 22 February 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, 25 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.