The first edition of P.I.Sa. Festival 2017 (Pisa Innova Salute) was held at the Le Benedectine Congress Center, Pisa, October 25 -28. Experts from all over Italy attended the conference, organized by the Interdepartmental Research Center for Health Promotion and Information Technology (ProSIT) of the University of Pisa. Various priority issues for public health, including vaccine prevention, environmental quality and child and elderly’ health were afforded and discussed.
In the framework of the conference, the LIFE KTE EnvHealth (Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Network in Environment and Health) organized a whole day of study to deepen issues related to the communication of health risks due to environmental pollutants and to the knowledge transfer among the research world, industry, the local administrations and citizens. The aims were both to suggest preventive actions and the adoption of adequate lifestyle attitudes and to provide appropriate tools suitable to support decision-making processes in the field of environment protection of and public health safeguard.
Nicoletta Nesto of the GHOST project team (which is a partner of the LIFE KTE network) attended the conference and was involved in the day of study by presenting the methodologies developed and applied by the project GHOST to raise stakeholders awareness and to increase their engagement regarding the management of ghost nets and other marine litters.
Posted Apr-2018
On Friday, April 13, Nicoletta Nesto and Vanessa Moschino of the GHOST team held the last seminars of a cycle...
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On December 20th, 2017, Dr Vanessa Moschino held a seminar on marine litter in Chioggia, at Palazzo Grassi (Padova University)...
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The first edition of P.I.Sa. Festival 2017 (Pisa Innova Salute) was held at the Le Benedectine Congress Center, Pisa, October...
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From 29th August to 1st September, the 57th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) titled “Social Progress for...
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On the occasion of the Venetian stage of Goletta Verde (the historic vessel of Legambiente), a round table on marine...
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On June 22th, the final conference of LIFE-VIMINE project was held at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti (Venice). At the end of...
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On May 23th, at the headquarters of the Istituto Superiore della Sanità in Rome, it was organized organized the thematic...
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The Platform Meeting "COSTING THE EARTH? - translating the ecosystem services concept into practical decision-making " hosted by the Baltic...
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On the occasion of the World Ocean Day on June, 8 the Ocean Literacy Italia (OLI) network (http://www.oceanliteracyitalia.it) has produced...
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At the invitation of the chief of Venice State Police, the LIFE-GHOST project has got involved with representatives of CNR-ISMAR...
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In the magnificent Sala dei Mappamondi (Accademia delle Scienze), at the Biennale Democrazia a cultural event promoted by the City...
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On 20th of March the first meeting of the technical working group established by Veneto region to decline at regional...
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On 13th and 17th of March, undergraduate students of Applied Ecology (Environmental Sciences Degree, Ca' Foscari University), with their professor...
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On March 3rd Vanessa Moschino and Nicoletta Nesto held a seminar on marine litter at the Liceo Scientifico Benedetti-Tommaseo in...
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The Councillor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing, Dr Giuseppe Pan, is committed to promoting at the Regional Government of Veneto...
Read moreThe collaboration with the project LIFE Mermaids is leading to interesting results concerning the quantification of microplastic produced by the ghost nets and the dissemination of the results achieved by…
On October 20, the final conference of the project GHOST was held at the Congress Center Don Orione Artigianelli (Zattere, Venezia. The event was an opportunity to share the results…
The final conference of the project will be held on October 20 in Venice, at the Congress Centre 'Don Orione Artigianelli', Zattere Dorsoduro 909/a. The event will be an opportunity…
Thanks to the Regional Councillor Ms E. Baldin, who shared the project conclusions and the technical recommendations identified as effective tools for the ALDFG sustainable management, an official document was…
We invite you to the final conference of the project which will take place on 20th of October, 2016 at the Congress Centre 'Don Orione Artigianelli', Zattere, Dorsoduro 909/A, Venice…
The International Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) was held in Washington from 26 to 29 June 2016. As part of the session Social Stability and Economic…
The code of good practices to limit the loss and abandonment of fishing gear at sea, implemented under the GHOST project, is aimed at promoting among fishermen and fish/shellfish farmers…
The ALDFG removal from the impacted rocky outcrops off the Venetian coast has been completed. As a whole, about 500 Kg of ALDFGs at different degradation stages were recovered from…
On May 19th the University IUAV of Venice, in collaboration with the LIFE-GHOST project, organized the seminar "Ghost fishing gears and Maritime Spatial Planning" to celebrate the annual day dedicated…