The Municipality of Amorgos is a new member to the Blue Municipalities Network following the decision of the municipal council of the island that had its first meeting held in 2023. It is the 9th island of the Cyclades region to join the national network which now counts 19 members. At the same time, the members of the municipal council…
We traveled to Cagliari in Sardinia and met our European partners from Malta, Greece, Italy, Spain and Cyprus, for the interim meeting of the BLUE-ISLES project, co-funded by EUPA (Malta National Agency) through the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission. The project, which aims at strengthening the knowledge and skills of the fishing community and aquaculture workers, and also leverages…
2023 is here and we can confidently say that 2022 was a milestone year for our organization! It was a year that clearly exceeded our expectations and justified our efforts. And produces more work and drive for us in view of the new year! If we were to summarize our 2022 achievements, we would focus on 5 axes of action.…
Our pilot projects are not only implemented in the Greek islands but also in the Greek mainland. Therefore, in December we focused, inter alia, on the projects we implement in collaboration with the municipal authorities and the support of Nescafé coffee in Kalamata and Thessaloniki cities. Our journey started by collecting waste from the net trap we installed in the…
A few months ago, Aegean Rebreath in collaboration with the Municipality of Antiparos and with the support of Pepsico Hellas,designed and implemented an innovative program. A program that included holistic interventions while promoting the principles of the circular economy and environmental democracy through the participation and mobilization of the entire local community. The program introduced the placement of three-stream recycling…
More than 200 students from 4 different primary school classes participated in the educational program we delivered in Kesaris Private School! We had the opportunity to inform and discuss with our little friends on how to reduce marine pollution and the need to change our mindset. However, we were really happy to conclude that the students were well informed and…
The first weekend of winter found us in Amorgos for a workshop we organized on climate change, the challenges and the problems the island faces concerning the coastal and the marine environment. The workshop, which raised the increased interest of the local community, was organized under the support of Attica Group and in collaboration with the Municipality of Amorgos. The…
We had the great opportunity to present our positions and our work concerning the circular economy in the “Sixth Sustainability Summit for south-east Europe and the Mediterranean” organized by Economist. Sixth Summit on Sustainability for Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean” organized by the Economist. senior executives of the European Commission and the Greek government attended the panel who presented developments…
We completed an effort that lasted for months while we respected the commitments we made! After signing a memorandum of cooperation with the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece and developing a funding proposal for the members of the Blue Municipalities Network, our organization finalized the procedure of developing a statute for the legal entity of the network. In this…
We are moving forward by building an important partnership with the Thessaloniki Water Company for tap water and the reduction of single-use plastics after signing a memorandum of cooperation. A partnership that aims to deal with a great problem that Greece faces concerning tap water. Following the implementation of 75 initiatives in Greece and the findings deriving from our analytical…
The successful “Small Actions, Big Crimes” program for the careless disposal of cigarette butts, which was implemented for the first time in Greece in the area of Rafina, is being extended to another member of the Blue Municipalities Network: the island of Naxos! The success of the program, which contributed to the collection of 63,755 cigarette butts within 10 months…
Over the last three years, Aegean Rebreath has been the target of baseless, misinformed and politically motivated accusations and legal actions related to our work on retrieving sediment samples from the port of Syros. Following measurements of sediment from a specific part of the port, the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (H.C.M.R.) found a larger concentration of heavy metals than…
