Line of action:

Status:

Execution date:

General:

Improve waste management and the warning of coastal pollution episodes.

Specific:

1. Create a database and an application (app) for warnings of the appearance of waste, through a network of marine observers.

2. Disseminate and communicate on good practices in the management of marine litter

3. To raise awareness among fishermen in the coastal fleet for active participation in the fight against marine litter. With special interest in marine areas of the Natura 2000 network.

A 1- DATABASE: In the first 6 months, documentation will be searched (2 months), expert advice will be obtained (2 months) and the database will be designed (2 months)

A 2- APPLICATION (App): The application will be used throughout the project, first there is a design phase (3 months) then the application is created (2 months) in the remaining 7 months its use is promoted and the activity with users begins. This also includes the presentation of the tool to the sector (date to be determined)

A 3- COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION: The communication work is constant during the project. Initially, the initiative is communicated in the press and later in the first two months a microweb is created, the audiovisuals are prepared within the first semester. The action on social networks is divided into two moments. Before the end of the second quarter one share and in the fourth quarter the second. In the last quarter, communication is related to the holding of workshops and the presentation of results.

A 4- WORKSHOPS AND VISITS: This activity is framed in the last 5 months of the project. Since workshops and visits are held in three communities, it will be necessary to coordinate when they are carried out once the project is approved, but preferably they will be in months 8, 9 and 10 of the project.

A database was developed through coordination with scientific agencies that helped to accurately define the data needed and useful for managing marine litter and the participation of fishers in the collection of information.

Likewise, a mobile application was designed, available for iOS and Android, for easy use, for the communication of pollution episodes and cataloguing by type of waste.

The awareness-raising and sensitization actions were completed with the preparation of informative content, printed and digital, for dissemination on the entity’s channels – creation of a website, audiovisual pieces, content for social networks or brochures. Likewise, three training workshops were organized (one for each autonomous community: Asturias, Galicia and Andalusia) for professionals in the sector, in addition to three visits to ports to promote and explain the operation of the developed application, trying to involve as many people as possible in the sector.