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In Sibenik the final conference of the InnovaMare project
“Technology is the key to preserving and protecting the Adriatic Sea. Innovations do not arise in isolation, but rather by cooperating and connecting. And in order to achieve concrete steps in this direction, significant resources are needed.” This was stated by the Vice President of the Croatian Chamber of Economy (HGK) for Industry and Sustainable Development, Tomislav Radoš, at the closing conference of the Interreg InnovaMare strategic project, in which HGK is the lead partner. “Our goal,” he continued, “is to transform data, knowledge and resources into technology that will enable us to evolve...
No more sea and land borders between Italy, Karst, Istria and Dalmatia
The Europa Adriatica project, which starts in Venice and includes the cities of Rovinj, Pula, Lussinpiccolo, Zadar, Rijeka and Nova Gorica/Gorizia, was presented in Piazza San Marco, at the headquarters of the Council of Europe and as part of the National Festival of Sustainable Development 2023. The sailing ship Nerezinac will be the symbolic boat of the project, guided by the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030, to create a cross-border program of sustainability initiatives and events to create contemporary culture towards Nova Gorica and Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025. The 2023/2025 activity plan is guided by four key themes: A. Culture, Art and History (focus on Central Europe...
Transboundary environmental protection of the Adriatic
“The Adriatic is the final common destination of the waters of the entire region, and therefore it must be safeguarded with a common method and as a common good”. The CrossWater project looks at the two Adriatic shores and the sustainable management of water services A common, integrated and sustainable management of water services in all respects, from drinking water to wastewater, for the countries overlooking the two shores of the Adriatic. This is the objective of the CrossWater project, part of the Interreg cooperation programme between Italy, Albania and Montenegro financed by the Pre-Accession Instrument of the European Union with a budget of 5,5 million euros. On the...
Sharing knowledge, to safeguard the Adriatic
“The candidate countries for EU membership work really hard, they are competent, but the experience of the partner institutions in the EU member states is invaluable”. When transnational networks help European integration and the environment. An interview In the European integration process of the Western Balkans, many groups, associations, institutions are involved at various levels thanks also to specific European programs. This is for example the case of the Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Montenegro, part of the ADRION HarmoNIA project. Can participation in EU-funded projects substantially facilitate the creation of transnational links that...
Istria seen from the sea
The volume presented at the Circolo della Stampa in Trieste involves two researchers and university professors, archaeologist Rita Auriemma and geologist Stefano Furlani as well as journalist Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin. It is fascinating to think of that Istria that we have lost, forever sunk in the sea or hidden from the eyes of visitors, the Istria that Rita Auriemma, Stefano Furlani and Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin tell us about in the pages of the book, published by the Circolo di cultura istro-veneta “Istria”, with the preface of the president Livio Dorigo, a publication presented at the Circolo della Stampa in Trieste, with the introduction by Luciano Santin. Overcoming the boundaries of...
First conference of the ANVGD project “Dante Adriaticus”
The teleconference “Dante Adriaticus. Literature, art and history in the name of Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic” took place on Monday 12 April, the inaugural event of the series of initiatives “Dante Adriaticus” that the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia will carry out during this 2021 Dante centenary: the hope is to be able to carry out the subsequent initiatives in person in Verona, Pola and Rome in September and October, in compliance with the current anti-Covid provisions. Morning session http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwqmRcsJlE Introduced and moderated by Lorenzo Salimbeni Communications Manager Association...
Adriatic Views: Time Travels
It is not on foot, nor by bike, nor even by boat that we are told about the Adriatic. This time, the pages of some literary works are used as a means of transport. Our exploration of the sea that unites continues by Fabio Fiori - 11/05/2020 - Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa In these long days of quarantine, space is closed to us, travel is denied us. For the first time in our lives we are paying for a confinement that was unimaginable only two months ago. Despite the news, which previously came from far away, and the facts, which immediately afterwards happened among us, should have immediately alerted us. Then I walked and pedaled carefree, I tacked...
The Adriatic Sea, Lake Venice
The Serenissima guaranteed the ethnic coexistence that was demolished by the Habsburg divide and rule. The first to try were the most fervent supporters of the Kingdom of Serbs, Slovenes and Croats that arose at the end of the First World War. During the Second World War, the Ustaša tried their hand at it first, followed by the Croatian nationalists who had infiltrated Tito's People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. Finally, it was the turn of the ultra-nationalists of independent Croatia in the 1990s. During the short century, many people tried to chisel them out or blow them up, but the winged lions of the Venetian Republic resisted and...
