On 27 September 2024, the European Researcher’s Night celebrated science across Europe. Member of the BioProtect consortium, Marina Carreiro-Silva from the Azores Deep-Sea Research Group, Okeanos-University of the Azores, participated in the event organized at Portas do Mar pavilion in São Miguel Island, Azores. Together with Observatório do Mar dos Açores, a scientific and cultural non-profit association, they organized a series of interactive demonstrations about the biology, ecology of cold-water corals, including a taxonomic key that guided both children and grow-ups on the differences between the coral taxa, including stony corals, black corals, gorgonians and soft corals.
At the event, Marina also shared BioProtect’s objectives to co-develop and demonstrate transferable ecosystem-based solutions to co-develop and demonstrate transferable ecosystem-based solutions to accelerate the effective protection and restoration of biodiversity in marine and coastal ecosystems. The European Researchers’ Night was also the occasion to present the sister Horizon Europe project REDRESS.
