Restoring the Deep: SER-Europe & REDRESS Launch New Webinar Series
On 7 May 2026, SER-Europe and the REDRESS Project hosted the first session of their joint webinar series, Restoring the Deep, opening with the question at the heart of any restoration effort: where do we begin? Moderated by Sahar Stevenson-Jones (SER-Europe), the session brought together leading voices in deep-sea ecology and restoration science. Setting the […]
The REDRESS YouTube channel is online
The REDRESS YouTube channel is fully operational and contains the latest videos of the field work carried out in the different case studies of the project. The partners of WP2 (Innovative approaches for deep-sea restoration of vulnerable habitats) and WP3 (Innovative and cost-effective technologies for monitoring deep-sea restoration efforts) show the activities carried out during […]
REDRESS Governance Analysts Meet-Up in Barcelona
The REDRESS governance and policy team took advantage of the annual project meeting to hold a 2-day workshop in Barcelona prior to the main meeting, hosted by ICM-CSIC. Project participants travelled in from Greece (HCMR), the Netherlands (WU), Portugal (UAviero, UAzores) and Italy (UNIVPM). The scope of the workshop was the distillation of 50 in-depth […]
Second Annual Meeting,
Barcelona 2026
The second annual REDRESS meeting took place at the CSIC headquarters in Barcelona. From 11 to 13 March, 60 members of the REDRESS consortium attended the meeting. The agenda was full of presentations and open discussions to plan further activities, from field work to participating in joint events and strengthening the network with other marine […]
REDRESS 4th Newsletter
The latest REDRESS newsletter is now available. The document presents an overview of the tasks and results achieved from 1 August 2025 to 31 January 2026. We present an update of restoration efforts in EU seas, the dissemination and communication activities of the REDRESS consortium and the list of new publications from the project. HAPPY […]
EU LIFE Lophelia Final Conference,
September 2025, Sweden
The LIFE Lophelia team (back row: Ann Larsson, Susanna Strömberg, Iga-Maria Nestorowicz and Anita Tullrot) with REDRESS (Anthony Grehan and Simone d’Alessandro), LIFE DREAM (Federica Foglini) and LIFE ECOREST (Andrea Gori) participants at the Final Conference, Grebbestad, Sweden, 2–3 September 2025. The EU LIFE Lophelia Final Conference took place on 2–3 September 2025 in […]
REDRESS and “Operazione Abissi”, Rome
On February 13, 2026, at the Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone Auditorium in Rome, the REDRESS project organized a meeting for children to discover the deep-sea. The event was based on the novel “Operazione Abissi” written by Claudia Fachinetti (Il Battello a Vapore) and Roberto Danovaro, with informational sheets created by Giovanni Lanteri. Through images, […]
The REDRESS exhibition opened at the Genoa Aquarium
The Aquarium of Genoa (https://www.acquariodigenova.it/) and the Polytechnic University of Marche launch a new scientific collaboration for the conservation of the deepest and most remote environments of the Mediterranean Sea. As part of the REDRESS project, a marine aquarium dedicated to the deep Mediterranean Sea was opened to the public on 16 December 2025. This […]
Life Mapper Restoration Workshop
CNR headquarters in Bologna (Italy) hosted the Restoration Workshop organized in the framework of the Life Mapper project (https://www.life-mapper.eu/) last 11-12 December 2025. Life Mapper project co-coordinated by Federica Foglini (CNR) and Simonetta Fraschetti (UNINA) organized this workshop inviting many EU projects dealing with marine ecosystems restoration along the EU Seas such as REDRESS, CLIMAREST […]
European Ocean R&I Strategy: 1st Stakeholder Consultation
The first stakeholder consultation occurred on 2nd December 2025. The meeting took place in Brussels with the aim of collecting input from selected relevant stakeholders and building consensus around needs and the main objectives of the European Ocean R&I Strategy 2026. Cristina Gambi (UNIVPM) and Boris Barov (SERE) participated to this event and followed the […]