Name
Helmepa
country
Greece
Goal
HELMEPA coordinates in Greece the Let’s Cleanup Europe Campaign, and invites everyone to take part, organizing an excursion to clean your nearby beach, seabed, river bank or lake.Volunteers are invited to contribute to the scientific study of the problem by recording collected litter, thus contributing valuable data on the amounts, types and sources of marine litter. This data is processed by HELMEPA and the results are disseminated to competent international bodies for further use.
Main Topic
Biodiversity: preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity
All Topics
Biodiversity: preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity
Zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment
Scale
- Neighbourhood or Local community
- City and peri-urban
- Regional (e.g. a province, including multiple cities)
- National
Actors
- Non-profit organisation (i.e. pursues a particular social cause, e.g. schools, foundations, social movement)
Main Activity
Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting;
Activities
- Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
- Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.