Green Bubbles organised its internal meeting back-to-back with an open workshop to present and discuss the results achieved so far with a variety of actors in the diving system. Between September 24 and 27, more than 50 people gathered together representing not only members of the Green Bubbles’ team or researchers from the disciplines involved in the project, but also local authorities, dive centres from all over Italy, training agencies, NGOs, international organisations, educators, manufacturers, museums/aquaria, tourism operators and tourism-related businesses, communicators and marketing experts.
The Green Bubbles Open Workshop unfolded through about 30 oral communications from an international, trans-disciplinary and multi-sectoral panel of speakers. Communications were followed by open floor discussions, which provided useful feedback and ideas to be incorporated in the coming activities. The workshop was covered on Twitter (#GBopen) and Facebook, with real-time posts about key-points and take-home messages. Moreover, all contributions have been filmed and most will soon be shared via the upcoming Green Bubbles YouTube channel. You can download the Report of the Green Bubbles Open Workshop here (5.3 Mb).
Given the success of this first event on the many facets of sustainable diving, we are thinking about repeating it in the future. We really thank you all for joining forces and working together towards sustainable diving!
Quim Garrabou, Geraldine Fauville, Chloe Harvey, Pascal Van Erp, Veronika Mikos and Lenia Marques – the dream team of keynote speakers!
Healthy Seas and Ghost Fishing testifying their presence at the Green Bubbles Open Workshop!
Joaquim Garrabou (Spanish Institute of Marine Sciences) gave a keynote speech about the role of divers in a changing Mediterranean Sea
An amazing reconstruction of the underwater bottoms in the Portofino MPA
Healthy Seas explaining how to turn discarded fishing nets into a valuable resource
Lenia Marques (Bournemouth University and World Leisure Organisation) giving a keynote speech about diving & integrated tourism
The coordinator of Green Bubbles, Carlo Cerrano, on the first day of the Open Workshop
Chloe Harvey (Green Fins, by the Reef World Foundation) presenting about ways to improve environmental performances of diving systems
The cartoon by Green Fins (© The Reef World Foundation) works better than a thousand words!
A busy conference room for the Green Bubbles Open Workshop
Prof. Hakan Oniz (Selcyk University and UNESCO) talking about the value of underwater cultural heritage
Geraldine Fauville (Gothenburg University) gave a keynote lecture on the current status of Ocean Literacy in Europe
Passimo Pieri presenting results from DAN Europe’s surveys at the Green Bubbles Open Workshop
Ghost Fishing at the Green Bubbles Open Workshop explaining how they operate to remove lost fishing nets
The Green Bubbles Open Workshop dedicated much time to open floor discussions at the end of each day
Some of the 50-something participants of the Green Bubbles Open Workshop!
