Scientific advances made by the Plastics, Environment and Health Research Group illustrated in cartoons!

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The scientific advances of the Plastics, Environment and Health Research Group in drawings! During the annual conference of the Plastics, Environment and Health Research Group (GDR PES) 2024 in Marseille, an artistic collaboration was initiated with author Capucine Dupuy to highlight the research carried out by members of the network in the form of 12 illustrated fact sheets. To carry out this outreach work, Capucine met and discussed with many scientists during the conference and worked closely with the GDR’s scientific advisory board to identify and understand the priority issues and some of the major scientific advances. Illustrations were then produced with the artist Bobika, resulting in the first series of drawings on the scientific advances of the Plastics, Environment and Health Research Group!

This series is available in French and English.

While these fact sheets are not intended to be exhaustive and reflect only a small part of the work carried out at national level on the subject of plastic pollution, they are designed to be distributed as widely as possible throughout society and used as a tool to disseminate current knowledge and improve understanding of the issues related to plastic pollution, in an illustrated and humorous format!

Transpel conference: relive the special evening at Oceanopolis

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From 1 to 4 April 2025, the TRANSPEL Conference ‘Small pelagic fish at the heart of socio-ecosystems in transition’ was held at the Pôle Numérique Brest-Iroise (Plouzané).
For a week, scientists and professionals were able to discuss the interdisciplinary topic of small pelagic fish and their value chains and share the results of four fundamental and applied research projects: OMEGA (Flagship IsBlue), DEFIPEL (FFP funding), FORESEA (DS IFREMER funding) and DELMOGES (MTE, DGAMPA and FFP funding), all of which will be completed in 2024 or 2025.
In addition to the scientific conference, a public event was organised on Wednesday 2 April at 8.30 pm in the auditorium of Océanopolis. This event was filmed and we invite you to relive this wonderful scientific and musical moment:

 

“Oceanic feeling” festival

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To mark the Year of the Sea and the 3rd United Nations Conference on Oceans (UNOC3), the association COAL is organising ‘Le Festival Sentiment Océanique, l’art sous le signe des océans’ (The Ocean Feeling Festival, art under the sign of the oceans) from 5 to 8 June at the Fort du Mont Alban in Nice. This four-day arts and ecology event will feature exhibitions, shows and concerts, a science bar and workshops to ‘listen to and understand underwater life, and immerse yourself in the long history of the oceans’.

Our colleague Laurent Chauvaud will take part in a debate entitled ‘Passez à L’action’ (Take action) on Saturday 7 June (from 6.30pm to 8pm), alongside Guillaume Nery (freediver) and Nathalie Van Den Broeck (Surfrider association).

The full programme is available here.

NAWRAS seminar: AI contribution to the assessment of legal protection of the Ocean

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A seminar on the use of artificial intelligence in the assessment of environmental law was held at the Semlalia Faculty of Science in Marrakech on 24 and 25 April.
The seminar provided an opportunity for some very interesting discussions based on presentations on the various artificial intelligence methods that could be used to analyse environmental law. The Nawras project team then presented its initial results and developed the analysis method used.
By bringing together AI researchers, legal researchers and ecology researchers from different universities in Morocco, France and Germany, this seminar enabled fruitful interdisciplinary exchanges and paved the way for future collaborations.

A Valorisation Award for Valerie Stiger-Pouvreau

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During Research Week in March, the 2025 Valorisation Awards ceremony organised by UBO and ENIB took place. On this occasion, our colleague Valérie Stiger-Pouvreau was given the Transition Award.
This distinction, accompanied by a €1,000 prize for LEMAR, recognises her work in the chemical ecology of marine plants, particularly in the context of the SAVE-C, RIV-ALG and RIV-AGE 2.0 projects. In collaboration with the University of Nantes and the companies Tech Nature and Novéal (a subsidiary of L’Oréal), Valérie filed a patent in 2019 for photoprotective extracts for sun protection, which was subsequently accepted in 2022.
Congratulations Valérie!

 

Read the full article on the UBO website