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MARLISCO National Awareness Activities in Cyprus

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As part of its national awareness activities, MARLISCO Cyprus participated in several events over the past weeks. On Saturday, 20th September 2014, MARLISCO was a supporter of the beach cleanup organized by the U.S. Embassy in Cyprus and the NGO AKTI Project and Research Centre on the occasion of the International Coastal Cleanup Day. The […]

A novel best practice approach: The MARLISCO case [in Marine Pollution Bulletin]

Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 88, Issues 1–2, 15 November 2014, Pages 118–128 doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.09.015 Abstract: Research that was undertaken to identify and evaluate best practices that can effectively minimise the amount of marine litter in European Seas is presented. Best practices were approached in a novel way that aimed to maximise the impact and added value of […]

International Coastal Cleanup 2014

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On Saturday 20th September, Isotech Ltd, through its project MARLISCO, participated in the International Coastal Cleanup event that was organised by the U.S. Embassy in Cyprus and AKTI Project and Research Centre. With the help of volunteers, many from the American Academy Larnaca, over 9,000 marine litter items were collected from 0.25 km of beach. […]

Xenia Loizidou, 1st Cypriot woman to join WIL, talks about women in leadership and gender bias in national press

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ISOTECH’s Director, Xenia I. Loizidou, gave two interviews last week in Cypriot newspapers “Kathimerini” and “Cyprus Weekly” on her inclusion in the European Women in Leadership (WIL) Network, the role of women in Cyprus and 2nd gender bias. You can read the interview in “Kathimerini” here (in Greek) and the interview in “Cyprus Weekly” here […]

Xenia I. Loizidou becomes the first Cypriot member of WIL

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We are very proud to announce that Xenia I. Loizidou, Director of ISOTECH,  is a new member of the Europe Network for Women In Leadership and the first Cypriot to become a member of WIL. WIL’s mission statement: “WiL’s first mandate is to offer to top level women a platform to network in order to […]

Preserving biodiversity in Cyprus: the DeCyDe-4 approach

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ISOTECH Ltd has been appointed by Frederick University to develop and implement the DeCyDe-4-Biodiversity decision support method, to evaluate and prioritize the measures that have been proposed in the National Biodiversity Strategy, using a participatory approach that will capture the opinions of the key actors and stakeholders in Cyprus. The resulting prioritized list of measures will […]

IRIS-SES Steering Committee in Athens

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The third steering committee meeting for the project ‘Integrated Regional monitoring Implementation Strategy in the South European Seas’ (IRIS -SES) will  take place on Tuesday 8 July 2014 in Athens. Isotech Ltd will be represented by Demetra Orthodoxou, who will provide an outline of the thus far progress and upcoming plans for the development and […]

The prospects of diving tourism in Cyprus

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This Friday, 27th June, Isotech’s Director Ms Xenia Loizidou will give a presentation on the prospects of diving tourism in Cyprus. Ms Loizidou will present at the Zenobia Week event “Developing a diving destination of excellence’, while representing the Cyprus Tourism Organisation. The event will take place at the Larnaka Municipal Historical Archives-Museum, located in […]

Creating artificial reefs

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This past Sunday (22nd June 2014) the boat Laboe was sunk, 2km off the coast of Yeroskipou Plaz, as part of the efforts to create artificial reefs around the island of Cyprus that will replenish the fish stock and increase revenues from diving tourism. Ms Xenia Loizidou, representing on this occasion the Cyprus Tourism Organisation, […]