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Description
The purpose of the project is to reduce the marine waste in the water areas adjacent to Pomorie Municipality by deploying two high-tech aquadrones to collect and safely empty marine litter. Supplied with additional sensors, the drones will also collect data on the water status of the targeted areas. Follow-up analyses and reports will help develop a system for prevention of marine waste. Other prevention measures include education and information dissemination initiatives, trainings and PR campaigns.
The project is complementary to the measures envisaged in the Bulgarian Marine Strategy. It is implemented by Pomorie Municipality in partnership with Fisheries Local Action Group, and International Development Norway AS.
The project will focus on the performance of 3 initiatives for marine waste reduction. They envisage a Clean-up of Pomorie Lake, Aheloy River and its estuary, the Black sea shores with the help of high-tech water drones.
Another project measure is the educational campaign which will be held, targeting students from 15-19 years old in different high schools. The expected outcome is to achieve engagement with the community and to make people self- conscious about the undertaken actions towards the marine waste reduction.
Moreover, another campaign will be provided to teachers with a topic related to the application and the reuse of the collected marine waste on the Pomorie’ aquatory.
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Summary of project results
The main challenge that the project aimed to address was the implementation of initiatives to reduce the amount of waste in the marine environment from land-based sources and improve the monitoring and management processes of marine waters carried out along the Black Sea coast and the inflowing river, as well as the nearby lake on the territory of the Municipality of Pomorie, including subsequent implementation of a training campaign and a campaign to raise awareness regarding marine water pollution.
The main output that the project managed to chieve is that the amount of waste in the marine environment from land sources on the shores of the Black Sea, falling within the territorial scope of the Pomorie municipality; Aheloy River, flowing into the Black Sea on the territory of the Pomorie municipality and the Pomorie Lake was reduced. In addition, as part of the project activities, 2 educational campaigns and 1 national campaign to raise awareness regarding marine water pollution were conducted.
As a result of the project, three initiatives to reduce pollution from land-based sources of the marine environment were implemented by means of two high-tech water drones purchased under the project in the 3 target water areas. A baseline, intermediate and final comparative analysis of the state of the target water area under the project and its impact on the marine environment along the Black Sea coast on the territory of the Pomorie municipality were prepared. A system for protecting the marine environment from land-based sources of pollution has been developed on the territory of the Pomorie municipality.
3 short films have been produced with content relevant to each of the three initiatives to reduce marine pollution. 3 advertising clips - trailers for the 3 short films with a duration of up to 1 minute have been produced and broadcast on 1 local and/or national TV media (a total of 90 broadcasts). A total of 6 electronic banners have been produced and placed.
3 articles have been produced with content relevant to each of the three initiatives to reduce marine pollution.
Produced promotional materials (promotional USB flash drives) with appropriate content on the topic of reducing seawater pollution and their spread on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria – 790 pcs., distributed among representatives of the relevant stakeholders and target groups under the project in each of the six regions at the NUTS2 level in Bulgaria.
1 educational campaign was conducted among students from Sofia University "Ivan Vazov", Pomorie and Vocational High School of Tourism "Aleko Konstantinov", Pomorie regarding the sources of seawater pollution and initiatives to reduce them, and 1 educational campaign among teachers of educational subjects, including teaching material in the field of the marine environment from schools on the territory of the Pomorie municipality regarding the applicability and reuse of waste collected from the surface of the target water area under the project.
The main beneficiaries of the project''s impact are:
Pomorie Municipality, Students from the above identified schools, teachers, representatives of relevant stakeholders and project target groups from each of the six NUTS2 level regions in Bulgaria.
Summary of bilateral results
The Donor State projec partner is one of the largest research organizations in the Scandinavian countries, with significant experience in implementing projects requiring international cooperation and those in the field of circular economy, environmental protection, technology and sustainable development, fully meeting the specifics of the project.The relevant identified good practices that have been exchanged and implemented under the project are:- Good practices in Norwegian policies regarding marine waste;- NTNU AMOS - Center for Autonomous Maritime Operations and Systems;- Norwegian providers of solutions focused on the marine environment;- Good examples and opportunities for bilateral cooperation between organizations/institutions from Bulgaria and Norway.