News

BioMARatona, a citizen science initiative that is part of the ANERIS project, is now officially a member of the Portuguese Citizen Science Network, a nationwide community involved in diverse citizen s...

Being halfway through the BioMARatona activity season, this year’s volunteers have already succeeded in collecting over 1000 observations of marine wildlife along the Portuguese coasts. Their captures...

Aimed at volunteers dedicated to citizen science actions and people involved in scientific work related to the marine environment (biology, oceanography, etc. ), the 10th scientific diving course for v...

ANERIS took part in another interesting citizen science event on 17 March 2025 in Foz, considered as the coastal treasure of Porto. The BIOPOLIS team carried out a student session on the shore, where ...

In a recent newsletter, MedCities, announced that they are joining for a second year in the citizen science activities in connection to ANERIS and MINKA. Last year the Mediterranean ne...

On 18 December, Cátia Monteiro, BIOPOLIS coordinator and researcher, presented BioMARatona Norte at an online seminar, hosted by CIIMAR. CIIMAR is a leading organisation in marine and env...

The BioMARató, a citizen science event led by ANERIS’s coordinator, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), has confirmed, for the first time, the presence of two tropical species on the Catalan...

A significant achievement within the framework of the ANERIS project is that the MINKA Citizen Science Observatory has now surpassed 200,000 verified marine observations on the Catalan coast. This rem...

The last weeks saw a number of exciting citizen science events on the Portugese coast, part of the bioMARatona Norte. The events encouraged participants to record and share biodiversity observations, ...

On 14 June 2024 another citizen science event related to the ANERIS project was held in Genoa, Italy. The conference was organised by MedCities, an association of Mediterranean coastal cities establis...

On May 25–26, this year’s Catalonia Underwater Photography Championship kicked off, running until June 26. Organised by FECDAS, the event took place at the Estartit Nautical Club and brought together ...

Aimed at providing citizens with all the necessary diving knowledge, ANERIS consortium members from FECDAS, in a collaboration with UNISUB ESTARTIT, facilitated a diving course. The event took place o...