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From 14 to 20 September 2026, coastal communities across Europe took part in the European Marine Citizen Science Week, an initiative coordinated by the EU-funded BioEcoOcean project to encourage ...

This year's edition of the BioMARathon is kicking off on Saturday, the 2nd of May, inviting all citizen scientists of all ages to actively participate in discovering, photographing, and documenting ma...

In October, BIOPOLIS and CSIC-ICM, partnering organisations within the ANERIS consortium, wrapped up their dedicated citizen science eDNA campaign, focused on monitoring biodiversity through the analy...

Coordinated by the EMBIMOS Group of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), the fifth edition of the BioMARató has achieved impressive results - gathering biodiversity data of the entire Catalan ...

Organised by the COASTALWARMING research group of CIBIO-InBio/BIOPOLIS, BioMARatona 2025 took place from May 3 to October 15 across Northern Portugal’s coasts with the overarching goal to continue inc...

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...

During the last week of September, another citizen science event was held at the La Misericordia beach in Málaga, co-organised by MedCities, Málaga City Council and the environmental cooperative&...

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...