Location: SAIDIA

Project providing volunteer summer beachgoers with buckets (given a second life) to collect beach litter and process it through eco-creative workshops, giving it a second artistic life.

Location : Ksar SGHIR

Distinctive, qualitative, and environmentally friendly contest drawing on a participative and interactive process with vacationing families, based on a field approach aimed at protecting the beach from pollution and reducing the use of plastics

Location: Safi

Support and mobilization of associations active in environmental protection at Souiria K’dima Beach, operating an environmental awareness and education center throughout the summer for vacation camps and beachgoers.

Location: Nador

The initiative draws public attention and raises the awareness of summer beachgoers to the dangers of plastic waste on marine resources and the coastline in an artistic fashion, and drives collaboration with a local cooperative to collect, weigh and compress the waste and forward it to recycling plants

Location: Casablanca

Upgrading beach infrastructure with sanitary facilities including for people with impaired mobility and engaging and supervising local associations for the collection, sorting, and disposal of plastic waste through a specialized company for recovery.

Location: Skhirate

Collection and recycling into carpets and other marketable objects by a women’s cooperative that weaves fishing nets discarded by fishermen on the beach facing the fishermen’s market.

Location: Safi

Setting up a village to raise awareness and educate on the dangers of plastic on the beach, and to involve and sensitize civil society to coastline preservation from plastic waste and natural resources protection.

Location: Salé

Environmental, sports, cultural, and social festival at Salé beach, providing children and young people with professional swimming and diving instruction as well as recreational activities on the impact of plastic on marine life.

Location: Dakhla

Establishment of the Dakhla, Oued Ed-Dahab Coastal Observatory, which monitors the state of the coastline and brings together all regional and national stakeholders, in partnership with relevant institutions in African countries, Europe and America.

Location: Tanger

The project brings together professional divers for 3-hour dives to clean the bay of Tangier and clear out waste, so as to raise awareness among beachgoers, especially children, of the impact of waste on marine environments and develop a positive sense of responsibility among large segments of the population.

Location: Dakhla

Design and production of recycled plastic paving stones and ecological bricks used to build furniture at Trouk Beach in Dakhla, and Construction of an outreach village with essential equipment.

Location: Essaouira

Cohin Environnement designed an innovative new concept that includes a single basin activated sludge treatment plant based on the semi-continuous Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) principle.

Location: Tetouan

The project aims to preserve the quality of Morocco’s eastern Mediterranean coastal waters. The project is unique in that, for the first time in Morocco, it uses a multi-compartment approach to assess the degree of contamination of the Mediterranean coast of Tangier-Tetouan-Al-Hoceima.

Location: Agadir

Periodic campaigns for clearing the seabed of waste and ghost fishing nets and setting up a museum exhibition on biological diversity for children.

Location: Oujda

Holding a range of community actions to educate the population and produce an updated database on the state of plastic pollution in Morocco’s seas (Oriental region), for use by the population and decision-makers

Location: Fnideq

Developing an online scientific, educational, and documentary platform on marine biodiversity, based on excursions and exploration at sea, in collaboration with academics and scientists

Location: Casablanca

The project recovers beached seaweed biomass from Morocco’s coastal areas to produce a new product to be used as a fertilizer or biostimulant substrate in organic agriculture.

Location: El Jadida

The project produces biopesticides to support agriculture with no risk to human health or the environment from a number of unexploited seaweed species.

Location: Tarfaya

The project promotes desert crafts for developing ecotourism for wildlife and biodiversity conservation in Khnifiss National Park and enhances the tourist experience.

Location: Rabat

The initiative is designed to raise awareness on coastal issues and water conservation, through educational visits to Redal facilities (Laboratories, SPRET, Water Tower) and to produce educational material on water and coastal issues.

Location: Casablanca

The initiative aims at training and raising awareness via youth education for environmental jobs and entrepreneurship promotion, as well as training unemployed women to recycle collected plastic bottles into school kits.

Location: Saïdia

The project seeks to promote sustainable tourism by creating a forum for dialogue between artists and the public using mural art to share ideas on interconnecting issues of tourism, culture, and coastline.

Location: Fnideq

The project seeks to introduce young people to coastal and ocean issues and to educate school environmental clubs on marine and coastal protection issues through exhibitions on plastic waste and biological diversity.

Location: Skhrirate

The project seeks to bring books closer to beachgoers of all ages.  Books and literature deal with coastal issues in a playful way.  Reading, coloring, and board games on the environment, as well as recycling and sports activities.

Location: Fès

The project develops the pedagogical role of storytelling to create cultural momentum for environmental protection in general and raise awareness on the magnitude of hazards faced by coastal environments.

Location: Safi

Sea MUN Safi is an exchange platform based on Model United Nations, developed as part of international law of the sea courses, enabling students to connect theoretical course material with the practical aspects of international law of the sea implementation and oceans and coasts governance.

Location: Bouznika

Raising awareness of young beachgoers at Bouznika Beach to the importance of water quality supervision in environmental and coastal protection via hands-on activities at a booth detailing the water quality supervisor profession, sampling of bathing water at Bouznika Beach, and conducting analyses on site.

Location: M’Diq

Plastic waste exhibition at the Al-M’diq animation village to raise awareness on damage caused by plastic waste to the seabed and popularize scientific concepts among young vacationers.

Location: Tangier

The project seeks to equip the beach with specific facilities and equipment to allow circulation, swimming, and access for people with disabilities to all services and amenities offered at the beach

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Location: Tiznit

The project targets the sustainability of marine resources across three areas, namely raising awareness on environmental issues, marine management mechanisms training, and advocacy with territorial councils training.

Location: Fnideq

Supervision and sensitization of traditional fishermen on the cleaning of the port of Fnideq and the rescue of dolphins and sea turtles stuck in fishing nets in collaboration with associations active in environmental protection.

Location: Al Hoceïma

Setting up an observatory to enable easy access and operational use of marine data for multiple end-users by harmonizing existing Earth observation systems, and facilitating data access for non-EU member states.

Location: Tetouan

Promotion of aquaculture among fishing cooperatives, notably for shellfish; Marketing and promotion of aquaculture products and development of studies and training courses on aquaculture

Location: Casablanca

The project seeks to prevent coastline pollution from liquid emissions and preserve natural resources by increasing city water recycling ratios.

Location: Taghazout

Taghazout Bay is a land development project adjacent to the coast, designed to be fully integrated and compatible with specific site and territory issues. The project preserves the natural, social, and cultural heritage and is implemented as part of a partnership and concerted approach, rallying all stakeholders towards common sustainable development objectives.