Collaboratorium for Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Ocean
(EU Citizen Science Prize 2024)
[graphic A. Guerrazzi]
CO>SEA is a research team based at Sapienza University of Rome – MEMOTEF Dep. advancing the interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international Marine Social Geography and Visual Research to investigate the socio-ecological transformations affecting the global Ocean that reverberate in local seas, and the human and nonhuman society connections with the ocean, building upon the Marine Social Science and Critical Ocean studies. It performs engaged research via participatory action research and citizen science, and visual documentation methods, framing the sea as both a conceptual and physical space for rethinking our place within complex, evolving ecological systems.
Co>Sea builds on the results and ongoing work realised thanks to European projects with regard to the following aspects:
- “SeaPaCS Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution” (HorizonEU2023): participatory citizen science methodology, transdisciplinary ocean research, transformative action research, marine visual documentation, sustainable offshore (sailboat) documentation;
- “FishArt. Participatory Art for the Ocean at Anzio’s harbour” (NEB EU2024): sea as a public space, creative activities-based crowdgathering, engagement with interstitial space (between land and sea), coastal governance issues;
- “Tentacular Thinking” (CultureMovesEurope 2024); hand-on-art approach; creativity for emotuional attachment with the ocean;
- “PartArt4OW. Participatory Art for society engagement with Ocean and Water” (two partners in EU Horizon): participatory art and creativity, sailing lab.
The EU CS prize (granted at the end of the EU project SeaPaCS) supported the CO>SEA team engaged in the following activity plan (from Sept 2024 to March 2026):
- a. Set-up_Definition and presentation to the international scientific community of the research field of Marine Social Geographies and Visual Research as the core expertise of Co>Sea group (outputs: 1 research paper; 1 transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral public workshop co-funded by and held at Sapienza University);
- b. Methodology Design_ Definition and presentation to the international scientific community of the Co>Sea methodology (i.e. marine participatory citizen science and visual reporting), reproducible and scalable, dedicated to investigating and tackling oceanic socio-environmental issues. The methodology is intended to advance local transformative knowledge generation and global marine governance approaches (outputs: 1 paper on SeaPaCS project; 1 Method Handbook with cases from previous projects);
- c. Piloting Co>Sea via the “CoSea_Lab. Laboratorio Collaborativo per il mare e la sostenibilità socio-ambientale nel Golfo di Anzio” (see here). CO>SEA pilot experimentation in the Anzio (Rome, Italy) coastal water is intended to create a dedicated, reproducible and scalable methodology for investigating society’s relationship with the Ocean and the main socio-environmental issues affecting the coastal sea. Sapienza University of Rome -Memotef Dep. and external collaborators are setting up and managing a participatory process for gathering tacit knowledge of local stakeholders in the Gulf of Anzio about the main emergencies affecting the coastal waters.;
- d. Follow-up_Define and set the base for reproduction and scaling upon research activities, including fundraising plan, consolidation of collaboration with local institutions and community (outputs: 1 book; research projects submitted; networking and outreaching activity; activity integration with other projects).
The Sapienza University of Rome supported the pilot of CO>SEA activity plan (numbered as c. in the above list) titled “CoSea_Lab. Laboratorio Collaborativo per il mare e la sostenibilità socio-ambientale nel Golfo di Anzio”, via a dedicated funding program (“BandoTerza Missione 2024”). Full program of activities from March 2025 to March 2026 and results are available here.
CO>SEA lab is endorsed as a U.N. Ocean Decade Activity 2025.
CO>SEA aims
Co>Sea aims at advancing the sustainability of marine governance based on the need identified by local citizens, through citizen science actions to restore the culture of respect for the Sea as a common. It pledges to strengthen society’s understanding, emotional attachment and commitment to the global Ocean. It envisages radically participatory processes for collective identification, documentation, exposition and solution-seeking to major socio-environmental issues affecting the coastal water of central Mediterranean Sea in the Gulf of Anzio(e.g. marine pollution deposits, eutrophication due to temperature increase, frequent falls of the cliff, biological and aesthetic consequences of anthropic intervention in the marine environment, fishing controversies and consequences of public space privatisation…), through piloting collaborative offshore expedition, mutual learning and discussion activities, and outreach event. We aim to investigate the need to learn living with the emergent and entwined assemblages of humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans and the interconnected physical environment they inhabit offers a standpoint for articulating a critical analysis of rebounding with the Ocean.
The CO>SEA Sailing Lab experimentation
Co>Sea pilot the operationalization of a Sailing Lab, a sailing boat equipped with a do-it-yourself L.A.D.I. trawl for microplastic sampling, and tools for socio-visual marine-ethnography research, to promote ocean knowledge, literacy and carbon-zero approach to the sea. It allows citizens to explore and experience ocean-based research; to work on marine visual documentation and connect marine communities. This is equipped for transdisciplinary research in ocean and society focusing on science, creativity and activism. In the long-term, the Sailing Lab is intended to serve oceanic documentation and research, training weeks with citizens, university students, scholars and workshops, communication and outreach initiatives.
CO>SEA project leaders
Chiara Certomà is an assistant professor of socio-political geography at Sapienza University of Rome MEMOTEF Dep., with over fifteen years of research experience in participatory methods for science and policy making. Engaged in 15 national and international research projects, is an expert in environmental governance and social innovation for sustainability, adopts participatory citizen science and mobilises volunteers in data collection, elaboration and sharing on the biological consequences of marine plastic pollution. Chiara is actively committed in Marine Social Science, visual geography and ocean studies. She authored more than 30 papers and books and led the EU project “SeaPacs” (awarded the EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 – Diversity and Collaboration), “SeaPaCS”, “FishArt”, “Tentacular Thinking”, and “PartArt4OW”. chiara.certoma@uniroma1.it
Federico Fornaro is managing director of the independent news agency Raw-News with 18year + of experience in documentaries and hard news in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Expert in video-documentation and photography, including underwater and drone-based. Jointly with UniTo, he produced the video documentation in “SeaPaCS”, “FishArt”, “Tentacular Thinking”, PartArt4OW”. He is Italian stable correspondent for AlJazeera and NBC News; and recurrent correspondent for CBS, Euronews, Sky, CCTV, France24, BBC. Contracted with Greenpeace, Unicef, Unesco, National Geographic, DataLine, Colonial Pictures, Reuters, Italian Minister for Foreign Affars, Lebanon Minister of Turism and Avaaz. He is skipper and sailing instructor. Overly 20 years of experience in oceanic sailing, Esprit Marin Prize 2013 for the Atlantic solo-crossing during MiniTransat. federico.fornaro@raw-news.net
CO>SEA collaborators
Giuseppe Lupinacci is a water photographer. He embarked as sailor and then as skipper, from 1999 to 2010, in the Maldives, Turkey, Egypt, Antigua, Barbados, Martinique, Sint Maarten, Saint Lucia, Tenerife and sailing the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. Since 2013 he has been working as a freelance aquatic and underwater photographer for media agencies, press, sports institutions and international projects. Collaborating with international projects “SeaPaCS”, “FishArt”, “Tentacular Thinking”, PartArt4OW” to explore the transformation of oceanic ecosystems and the relationship between society and the ocean and his photography solo exhibitions has been presented in Milan, Rome, Palma de Mallorca and London. g.lupinacciphoto@gmail.com. Collaborator in “CO>SEA Collaboratorium for the Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Ocean” and “CoSea_Lab. Laboratorio Collaborativo per il mare e la sostenibilità nel Golfo di Anzio” (Bando Terza Missione 2024 Sapienza University of Rome).
Caterina Pozzobon is research assistant at Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep., working on the management of the EU Horizon project “Participatory Art for society engagement with Ocean and Water (PartArt4OW)”. After obtaining a Masters degree in Cooperation, Development, and Innovation in the Global Economy from the University of Turin, she earned a PhD in Urban and Regional Development from the Polytechnic of Turin, with a thesis in human geography on water resource management in rural central Tanzania, adopting a feminist political ecology approach. Her main research interests include participatory research, the use of visual methods, and the analysis of the human and more-than -human geographies of water. caterina.pozzobon@uniroma1.it . Collaborator in “CoSea_Lab. Laboratorio Collaborativo per il mare e la sostenibilità nel Golfo di Anzio” (Bando Terza Missione 2024 Sapienza University of Rome).
Luca Bertocci is research assistant at Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Depworking on the management of the EU Horizon project “Participatory Art for society engagement with Ocean and Water (PartArt4OW)”. After obtaining a bachelor’s in Literature and Philosophy and a Masters degree in Geography from the University of Bologna, he earned a PhD in Urban and Regional Development from the Polytechnic of Turin, with a thesis in urban philosophy and politics focused on planetary urbanization and the ongoing epochal transformation of planetary water due to climate change. His main research interests include political theory, philosophy and geographical thinking. They are conceived as crucial techniques for unveiling emancipatory potentials embedded in our metamorphic and always negotiated world. luca.bertocci@uniroma1.it Collaborator in “CoSea_Lab. Laboratorio Collaborativo per il mare e la sostenibilità nel Golfo di Anzio” (Bando Terza Missione 2024 Sapienza University of Rome).
Chiara Salari is research assistant at Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep. on the management of the EU Horizon project “Participatory Art for society engagement with Ocean and Water (PartArt4OW)”. After obtaining a PhD in visual studies (University Paris Cité and Roma TRE University), she was international fellow at the KWI (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of Essen, Germany) and research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her main research interests include the environmental aesthetics of post-industrial landscapes, ecocritical approaches to the study of images, the representation of biodiversity and marine landscapes in multimedia online archives and atlases. Collaborator in “Marine Social Research” (Bando Workshop 2024 Sapienza University of Rome).
Tommaso Valente is researcher at the ISPRA /Sapienza University – Environmental Biology Dep. in Marine Ecology, Marine Pollution, Bioindicators, Feeding Ecology, Environmental Pollution, Marine Debris, Marine Ecosystems.
Amedeo Boldrini is PhD student at the University of Siena – Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences expert in water contamination.
Marcello Dato is the artistic director of the Berlin-based international company Platoon Cultural Development, with decades of experience in the conception, organization and management of large international artistic events.
Our local network includes local administrations, seagoing professionals and service providers; environmental, cultural, social associations; local schools and industrial partners, local shops and tourism services. We cross-fertilise and exchange with our international network of scholars, activist and insitutions, including UN Ocean Decade Action, Marine Social Science, U.N. Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience, SAP&O Science+Art+Participation in&about the Ocean, Bremen Ocean World From Outside in, Ocean Decade Art+Science, H-Net Ocean and the EU project PartArt4OW and cognate projects TidalArt and Prep4Blue.
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Activity Diary (by points and news)
- Aug-Sept 2024. Negotiation with oceanic boat owners, sailing associations and societies for access to a suitable boat and agreement establiment toward it.
- 12 September 2024. Presentation of SeaPaCS at the First IMPETUS4CS Aperitive 2024
- 13 September 2024. The Rotary Club Costa Neroniana gifted a new L.A.D.I. for microplastic sampling to the SeaPaCS team at the Italiano Naval League in Anzio.
- 23 September 2024. Interview on SeaPaCS with C.Certomà for IMPETUS4CS:
- 30 Oct 2024 Granted the support for the workshop “Marine Social Research. Present and Future of science, creativity and participation for the Ocean” by Sapienza University of Rome – “Bando Convegni Seminari e Workshop“.
- 4 Dec 2024 Chiara Certomà is presenting follow-up activities and funds after SeaPaCS at IMPETUS4CS Impact Meeting for citizen science initiatives (CSIs).
- 04.01.2025 Video-interview “PLASTICHE! La parola agli esperti” by Chiara Certomà, on Gianni Girotto’s blog TRACCE on Co>Sea activity on https://fb.watch/wVmiorfBUg/
- 13.01.2025 Press release CO>SEA is starting!
- 23 Jan 2025 CO>SEA presenting team activities from SeaPaCS to PartArt4OW at TidalArts event “Where Art/Ocean/Science meets” (online meeting)
- 8.3.2025 CO>SEA team participation and documentation of the meeting between trawling fishermen of Anzio and the Municipality representatives – Tourism and Productive activity dep.
- 20 March 2025 Granted the support to CO>SEA pilot (“Laboratorio Collettivo per il Mare e la Sostenibilità socio-ambientale nel Golfo di Anzio”) by Sapienza University of Rome – Bando Terza Missione 2024 in collaboration with Roberta Gemmiti (MEMOTEF Dep.), Massimo Battaglia (Dep. Management) and Museo della Geografia (see COSea_Lab Terza Missione 2024)
- January-March 2025 CO>SEA tram interviewed gate-keepers and stakeholders in the city of Anzio to identified via a participatory marine social geography process the principal emergences affecting the coastal sea and the coast of the Gulf of Anzio. Over 10 in-depth, open and long interviews (30 min- 1.5 hour) have been conducted, recorded or video-recorded (by Raw-News), unsploot and ready for content mapping and semantic analysis. Interviewed citizens (including seaworkers and seafarers, administrators, seagoing people, associations…) have been asked main problems of the coastal sea and the high seas in the area (notably in the Gulf of Anzio up to the Pontine Islands), how the crucial issues for the health of the global oceans in your experience impact the local sea; what actions undertaken do you know (e.g. safeguard/care practices implemented by the inhabitants).
- 9 April 2025 Sampling of river Loricina (Nettuno) for preliminary chemical and biological analysis by the University of Siena; visual documentation (complementing samples of river waters Fosso dello Schiavo (Lido dei Gigli) realised on the 4th of Apr 2025)
- 22 Apr 2025 Celebrating EarthDay by the Ocean
- Apr 2025 CO>SEA has been endorsed as a U.N. Ocean Decade action.
- 16 Mag 2025 Marine water sampling in the vicinity of sewage treatment plant discharges and discharge points (complementing analyses realised on the 4th Apr 2025) for biological pollution + documentation of marine plastic brought back from trawling fishermen at the harbour.
- 30 may 2025 Presentation of CO>SEA research group work at the Giornate della Ricerca MEMOTEF – Sapienza University of Rome (photo M. Bica)
- 3-4 jun 2025 Second water sampling for chemical polluants at Fosso dello Schiavo – Lido dei Gigli and Loricina river – Nettuno (Rome)
- 5 jun 2025 Presentation of CO>SEA research and video-doc “Blue Kinship. Documenting Ocean Relationship” at the Pavillion for People with U.N. Ocean Conference 2025
- 5 jun 2025 marine water sampling in the vicinity of sewage treatment plant discharges and discharge points (complementing analyses realised on the 4th Apr 2025) for biological pollution
- 17 jun 2025 CO>SEA team is following the activities of the ZeroPlastic project managed by Comune di Anzio in collaboration with Sapienza MEMOTEF and Raw-News. The plastic and oil – collecting drone has been operationalised in the Anzio Gulf.
- 21 jun 2025 Presentation of short video-doc “The sense of place. Documenting Ocean Relationship” at the Circolo Vela Roma, Anzio (Italy)
- 7 jul 2025 Participation to the roundtable “aMare Anzio” , Anzio City Council
- 8 jul 2025 Presentation of CoSea_Lab ongoing activity during the seminar “Il valore della conoscenza: le esperienze della Terza Missione in Sapienza“, Sapienza University of Rome
- 9 jul 2025 Interview on Impact Assessment of the EU CS Prize 2024 with IMPETUS team
- 5 sep 2025 Caterina Pozzobon presented at the Congresso Geografico Italiano University of Turin, the contribution “Deep sight. On the heuristic value of Visual Research for Marine Social Geography” on the use of visual methods in the participatory research of CO>SEA.
- 6th Sept 2025, CoSea (Chiara Salari) participated in the IMPETUS Demo Day at Ars Electronica in Linz, in the frame of the conference “New Pathways: AI, Art, and Collaboration in Citizen Science—#AI, Art, Policy”. Through an interactive format the audience was invited to role-play as stakeholders—scientists, policymakers, journalists—engaging directly with the 2024 cohort of CSIs (citizen science initiatives) through questions, feedback, and symbolic “investments”. CoSea participated in the IMPETUS Accelerator in 2023 with the project SeaPaCS (Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution).
- 18 Sept 2025 Chiara Certomà presented “CoSea_Lab. Laboratorio collaborativo per il mare e la sostenibilità socio-ambientale nel Golfo di Anzio”, at the Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico, Session Insieme nella Transizione Ecologica, Università Roma Tre
- 8 Nov 2025 Chiara Certomà, Caterina Pozzobon and Federico Fornaro presented the European project PartArt4OW and the CO>SEA research group; organised the laboratory “Cut and paste the Anzio Sea”; screened the documentaries “SeaPaCS. Participatory Science against Plastic in the Sea” and “FishArt. Participatory Art for the Ocean at the Port of Anzio” by Raw-News; showcased the photo reportage exhibitions “Explorations in the Plastisphere. New Hybrid Ecologies of the Mediterranean” and “The Anzio Sea. Resilient Ecologies in the Mediterranean“. Online at https://www.facebook.com/ComunediAnzio/videos/1145715961082274/
- 18 nov 2025 Chiara Certomà presented at the Roundtable “Engaging people with the sea; creative and innovative pathways to Marine citizenship“, U.N. COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavillion
SeaPaCS get the EU CS Prize @ ArsElectronica Festival
On the 5th of September, the SeaPaCS team was awarded the EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 – Diversity & Collaboration Award during the ArsElectronica Festival 2024 in Linz, Austria. The video prepared by ArsElectronica for the presentation of the winning project is available below: [Photo: vog.photo] The full prix program is available here: Photo Prix…
EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 to SeaPaCS
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Marine Visual Geo on Oceanic Assemblages at RGS AC2024
At the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2024, London, 29-31 August, we will present the following products “Visual art and documentation of Ocean Plastic Pollution in Participatory Research. The SeaPaCS experience” and the photographic exhibition “Oceanic assemblages: underwater natureculture entanglements”.
L.A.D.I. (is) in the Sea! From SeaPaCS to FishArt
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“Ocean Worlds. From the outside it” at Bremen University
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SeaPaCS@AntropoCine
The final video reportage of the EU project SeaPaCS is presented at Cinema delle Province, Rome, on the 23rd of October 2024, during the event titled AntropoCine, organised by Marino Midena (Nuova Ecologia/University of Rome Sapienza) during the Rome Film Festival (in the session “La Festa per il Sociale e l’Ambiente”: Visioni dell’AntropoCineL’Associazione culturale Roma…
“Esplorazioni della Plastisfera”@Società Geografica Italiana
A new setup of the photographic exhibition “Esplorazioni della Plastisfera. Intrecci sottomarini di Naturacultura nel Mediterraneo” by Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News is inaugurated at the historical headquarters of the Società Geografica Italiana, Palazzetto Mattei in Villa Celimontana, Rome on the 5th of November 2024. The exhibition can be visited for free until the 14th of November 2024.…
EIT Community NEB 2024 Gathering in Barcelona
We have been invited together to the EIT Community NEB 2024 Gathering in Barcelona on the 10th and 11th December. The gathering was intended to showcase projects results and feed new networking opportunities with a kicking-off at the Valldaura Labs and working sessions at the Apocapoc living lab. Lessons learned session, session with JRC, ideation…
New video reportage “Blue Kinships. Documenting Ocean Relationships”
The CO>SEA research group, hosted at Sapienza University of Rome’s Memotef Department and supported by the EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 – Diversity & Collaboration Award, proudly announces the release of its latest video reportage: “Blue Kinships. Documenting Ocean Relationships.” This thought-provoking visual exploration delves into the essence of visual research for marine social geography…
PartArt4OW@European Ocean Days
I’m taking part together with PartArt4OW partners (Sapienza, Raw-News and CMMI) in the 3rd Annual Mission Ocean and Waters Forum, taking place on 4 March 2025 with a series of related events in the week of 3-7 March including the European Ocean Days 2025 as part of the Mission Ocean. The 3rd Annual Forum will be held at…
Marine Social Geography. CO>SEA workshop on science/creativity/participation for the Ocean @PartArt4OW
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Pontos. Planetary urbanization and the Sea
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CO>SEA pilot_Socio-geographical explorations in the Anzio sea
[photo L.Bertocci] [Italiano in basso] Anzio, 4 April 2025 The research work of the CO>SEA ‘Collaborative Laboratory for the Sea and Socio-Environmental Sustainability in the Gulf of Anzio’ project continues in the sea of Anzio. The CO>SEA research team of the MEMOTEF Department of the Sapienza University of Rome with the independent visual production agency…
Premiere of “The Sense of Place” @Nuit des Idees – French Embassy
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CO>SEA on the sea of Anzio @TG Leonardo
[english below] Il mare di Anzio raccontato dal TG Leonardo, RAI 3 – Protagonista il progetto CO>SEA Il progetto di ricerca partecipativa CO>SEA, dedicato alle emergenze socio-ambientali nel Golfo di Anzio, è stato protagonista di un servizio speciale trasmesso dal TG Leonardo su Rai 3 il 5 giugno 2025. Il servizio, a cura di Laura…
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“Living the Sea”: CO>SEA discusses PartArt4OW@OLA Lisbon
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“Blue Kinships”: engaged research and visual documentation at SiciliAmbiente Film Festival
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CoSea_Lab Photo-research exhibition
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Report and social map of CoSeaLab research now unveiling data and results
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“Blue Kinships. An Exploration of Society & the Ocean”_now out!
[cover graphic Allegra Guerrazzi] Blue Kinships, edited by Chiara Certomà, as just been released by Palgrave MacMillan, NY. Blue Kinship contributes to the emergent movement of ideas and practices that are interpreting the ocean as a conceptual and physical space for reconsidering our relationship with the complex, heterogeneous and mutable ecological systems of the Anthropocene;…
“Around Alone”: technologies, society and the sea premiered at the RGS AC2025
On the 27th of August 2025, Chiara Certomà (Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep.) and Federico Fornaro (Raw-News Visual Production Agency), research team CO>SEA, presented the premiere of the new short-documentary “Around Alone. Documenting Ocean Relationships” at the Royal Geographical Sociaty with IBS Annual Conference 2025 (RGS AC2025), University of Birmingham, “Film Geography” session. “Around…
CO>SEA & PartArt4OW at the RGS2025
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SUDNORD – NORDSUD
SUDNORD – NORDSUD September 13, 2025 | 4:00 PM – 11:00 PM Molo Innocenziano Port of Anzio Promoted by IBIS APS Cultural Association “A small door to the sea. A real and symbolic passage between South and North, between those who leave and those who arrive, between desires and shipwrecks.” SUDNORD – NORDSUD is an…
Marine Social Research. CoSea_Lab creative workshop @Sapienza Memotef
The CO>SEA research team invites eveybody to the creative workshop “Marine Social Research. Present and Future of science, creativity and participation for the Ocean” will be held on the 3rd of October 2025 at Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep (via del Castro Laurenziano 9, Rome). The worshop is part of the EU Horizon project…
CO>SEA/PartArt4OW Sailing Lab testing
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Harbours as Ocean Gateways_field research in Cork
Supported by the Sapienza University of Rome – Horizon Europe Projects Coordination Fund 2025, Chiara Certomà (Sapienza – MEMOTEF) and Federico Fornaro (Raw-News Visual Production Agency) realised a 3-day field research in the port of Cork and the harbour of Cobh, Ireland, from the 15th to the 17th of October 2025. The field work adopted…
CoSea. Critical Visions from the Sea_new video-docu out
On the 7th of November, during the creative workshop “Marine Social Research. Present and Future of science, creativity and participation for the Ocean”, the new video-documentary “CoSea. Critical Visions from the Sea”, produced by Raw-News Visual Production Agency and directed by Federico Fornaro, is premiered at the Sapienza University of Rome – MEMOTEF Department. Based…
CoSea_Lab + Zero Plastica public presentation
[photo G.Lupinacci] What are the main environmental problems in the Gulf of Anzio? And how do major global challenges, such as climate change, intertwine with daily life and the local environment? What protection measures have been implemented? And how has the relationship between the sea and society changed? The participatory research project “CoSea_Lab. Collaborative Laboratory…
Products
- AVAILABLE FOR MARINE CITIZEN SCIENTISTS 2 Low Aquatic Debris Instrument for sampling marine micro-plastic – get in contact if interested!
- Video-doc “Blue Kinship. Documenting Ocean relationships” by Raw-News and Sapienza Memotef, available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eZbeJHEiLVE and Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/1478750
- Certoma’, C., Bertocci, L., Pozzobon, C., Salari, C., Fornaro, F. (2025) “‘Home is the Ocean’: Intervista a Livia Vonaesch“, TaxiDrivers
- Pozzobon, C., Bertocci, L., Certoma’, C. (2025) “Breath. Andare a fondo, risalire“, TaxiDrivers
- Evolution of the Anzio coastal shape (from 2025 to 2020, by Allegra Guerrazzi with EOBrower)
- CoSea_Lab poster
- Certomà, C., Pozzobon, C., Salari, C., Bertocci, L., Boldrini, A., Valente, T., Fornaro, F. (2025), “CO>SEA nel Golfo di Anzio. Report tecnico-scientifico”, Zenodo, https://zenodo.org/records/16313580
- Pozzobon, C., Certomà, C., Salari, C., Bertocci, Fornaro, F. (2025), “CO>SEA nel Golfo di Anzio.
Mappa delle emergenze socio-ambientali“, available here and on Zenodo https://zenodo.org/uploads/16890288
- G. Lupinacci, F. Fornaro, C.Certoma’ (2025) “CoSea_Lab Photographic Reportage”, Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/17064428
- F.Fornaro, G.Lupinacci, C.Certomà (2025) “CoSea.Critical Visions from the Sea”, video-documentary, produced Raw-News and Sapienza University of Rome, https://www.raw-news.net/cosea-critical-visions-from-the-sea/ (zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/17587913)
- Graphic recording of the workshop Marine Social Science (7 nov 2025) by Veronica Vitale/IschireStudio
Press
- https://ilclandestinogiornale.italiasera.it/notizie-nazionali/anzio/185086/anzio-al-via-il-collaboratorium-sapienza-societa-e-oceano-al-centro
- https://ilgiornaledellambiente.it/analizzare-il-rapporto-tra-societa-e-oceano-innovativa-ricerca-pilota-della-sapienza-universita-di-roma/
- Al via il Collaboratorium Memotef for socio-environmental analysis of the ocean, Sapienza University https://www.uniroma1.it/it/notizia/al-il-collaboratorium-memotef-socio-environmental-analysis-ocean
- https://ilclandestinogiornale.italiasera.it/cultura-e-spettacolo/177732/il-rotary-club-costa-neroniana-e-ladi-impegno-per-il-mare-di-anzio
- https://ilgiornaledellambiente.it/analizzare-il-rapporto-tra-societa-e-oceano-innovativa-ricerca-pilota-della-sapienza-universita-di-roma/
- https://ilclandestinogiornale.radioroma.it/notizie-nazionali/191100/esplorazioni-socio-geografiche-nel-mare-di-anzio-il-progetto-di-ricerca-della-sapienza/
- https://www.greenplanetnews.it/cosea-esplorazioni-socio-geografiche-nel-mare-di-anzio/
- https://ilgiornaledellambiente.it/esplorazioni-socio-geografiche-nel-mare-di-anzio-un-approccio-partecipativo-per-la-sostenibilita/
- https://www.quotidianolavoce.it/2025/04/08/esplorazioni-socio-geografiche-nel-mare-di-anzio-il-progetto-della-sapienza/
- Il litorale, aprile 2025
https://www.dailygreen.it/giornata-del-mare-al-via-progetto-cosea/
- TG Leonardo, RAI3, 5 giugno 2025 https://www.rainews.it/tgr/piemonte/video/2025/06/pescatori-ricercatori-laboratorio-sostenibilita-plastica-f0adfdde-3961-498c-8829-4860d5800e7a.html?nxtep
- Il Granchio, 13 giugno 2025
- Il Litorale,1 aug 2025 https://www.ilpontino.it/il-litorale/2025/14/index.php?pagina=11
- Green Planet “Il Golfo di Anzio sotto osservazione” https://www.greenplanetnews.it/la-mostra-fotografica-cosea-il-golfo-di-anzio-sotto-osservazione/
- il Clandestino “Tra scienza e cittadinanza quali sono i problemi del golfo di Anzio?” https://ilclandestinogiornale.radioroma.it/primo-piano/200460/tra-scienza-cittadinanza-e-mare-quali-sono-i-problemi-della-costa-di-anzio/
- https://www.greenplanetnews.it/la-mostra-fotografica-cosea-il-golfo-di-anzio-sotto-osservazione/
- Il Granchio, 8.10.2025 “Visioni del mare tra scienza e comunità”
- Presentation of CO>SEA aims (min 15.20-18.00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVFB6AEcwM4
- Presentations and exhibitions at “Sapore di Mare”, FEMPA – GAL Lazio – Comune di Anzio https://ilclandestinogiornale.radioroma.it/ultime-notizie/208701/grande-attesa-per-sapore-di-mare-ecco-il-programma-dei-4-giorni/
- https://canaledieci.it/2025/11/23/erosione-inquinamento-e-futuro-del-mare-di-anzio-parola-ai-ricercatori-con-un-nuovo-strumento-interattivo-foto/
- https://ilgranchio.it/2025/10/03/visione-del-mare-tra-scienza-e-comunita-il-golfo-di-anzio-della-cosea-lab/
CO>SEA on international repositories/databases:
SCI_STARTER https://scistarter.org/collaboratorium-for-socio-environmental-analysis-o?new=true
UN SDGS https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/cosea-collaboratorium-socio-environmental-analysis-ocean
UN Ocean Decade https://oceandecade.org/fr/events/cosea/
Chiara Certomà 