Greek company is looking for Bulgarian partnership

The Greek company Indigo-Med is looking to establish a partnership with Bulgarian beneficiaries.

Indigo-Med is a Science Communication & Education consultancy based in Greece. It provides effective

science communication and education solutions through creative and entertaining means.

The company undertakes the design and implementation of professional communication and dissemination strategies for any project. Being actively involved in the dissemination and communication activities of European projects for the last 10 years, we have cooperated internationally with distinguished research centres, aquaria, scientific and educational organisations, as well as universities and science centres, aiming to create science communication networks and forums, and to provide effective dissemination of scientific knowledge to the general public and the interested stakeholders.

Part of the outreach activities that Indigo-Med plans for the general public, includes the design and

implementation of educational activities that engage students all of ages in learning about science, either

through formal or informal education establishments, while ocean literacy remains one of the top

priorities and areas of expertise.

Indigo-Med also undertakes the organisation of events and conferences, from start to finish. It can provide

dedicated services for organising events, including event promotion & dissemination, social media account

management before and during the event, as well as the overall management of the event, including

planning, executing and promoting the event.

Our staff is a long-lasting member of important organisations/networks in the field of marine science

education and communication. More specifically, one of our members is an official Steering Committee

Member of the European Marine Board Communications Panel, while she is also involved in the European

Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA) and more importantly, she is one of the founders of its

Mediterranean branch, EMSEA-Med. Furthermore, Indigo-Med staff have often been invited on discussion

panels on ocean literacy and science education in Europe and the USA at global ocean science education

workshops and conferences.

Staff Members

Martha Papathanassiou studied Marine Sciences (B.SC. Hons) at the University of Southampton and then completed her Master's Degree (MA) in Communications, at the University of Leeds. She has worked in the UK as Editorial Coordinator for medical and scientific journals and as Press & Communications Officer for a non-profit making organisation. For the past 10 years, she has been working in Greece as a

Communications Officer for EU-funded projects coordinated by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research.

Her duties at these posts included dissemination of project results to scientists and the general public, the

production of timely press releases, as well as maintaining and regularly updating the project’s website

through generation of news content for scientific, media and general public audiences. She is responsible

for the project’s internal and external communication, for organising, editing and producing the project’s

newsletters in collaboration with the project’s management team and dealing with media and public

enquiries as required. Additionally, she was the HCMR's main participant in the FP7 Sea for Society

project, which involved consultations with citizens/youth as well stakeholders while she was responsible

for adapting and translating all project material to fit national needs, facilitating both citizen/youth and

stakeholder consultation sessions as well as producing the final reports. She has been a member of the

European Marine Board Communications Panel since 2012 and has participated in the four European Marine Science Educators Associations Conferences (EMSEA), while she was the Chair of the Organising Committee of the 3rd EMSEA Conference, in Crete, Greece. She was one of the invited speakers at the European Commission's Atlantic Stakeholder Conference for the Workshop: ‘Ocean Literacy in Europe: Recent Developments and Key Challenges’. She was recently involved as leader of the Blue Schools task in the H2020 'Sea Change' proposal and is now a Task Leader in the ERASMUS+ project MATES: Maritime Alliance for fostering the European Blue economy through a Marine Technology Skilling Strategy.

Dr. Christos Ioakeimidis is a Marine Scientist with a multidisciplinary scientific background in the fields of

Environmental Sciences, Oceanology, Oceanography, with expert skills on Marine Litter. He holds a Ph.D

on marine litter, peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, posters/symposium papers, reports,

and he is one of the main authors of “Hazardous Chemicals Associated with Plastics in the Environment”

(Springer Publishing). He has participated in several research and monitoring cruises in the Eastern

Mediterranean Sea (benthic litter, floating microplastics and on sediment) and he is member of the

Technical Group on Marine Litter (EC MSFD TGML).

He has been employed in both the private and public sectors, in positions of responsibility: Scientific

Consultant at the Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Marine Research Officer at the

Presidency of the Council of the EU in Cyprus, Guest Lecturer at the University of the Aegean, Research

Associate at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (2013-2016) working for the PERSEUS (FP7) Research Project (T2.3.5 Marine Litter) along with offering his expertise at the Marine Group of the European Topic Center (ETC/ICM) of the European Environment Agency (EEA). He was actively involved in developing the EEA’s citizen-science Marine LitterWatch (MLW) smartphone App and introduced marine litter in environmental education in Greece. Currently he works for the United Nations Environment Program Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) and its MED POL Programme as a Marine Litter Expert with special focus to prevent, control and effective management of marine litter in the Mediterranean Sea through the implementation of the Regional Plan on Marine Litter Management and the “Marine Litter MED Project”. Through his involvement in the study of marine litter, Christos has developed collaborations in both the Mediterranean and Black Seas and has generated new knowledge in the field.

If you are interested, please contact the Indigo-Med team at:

Indigo-Med: ScIeNce eDucation & communIcations strateGic sOlutions

m: info@indigo-med.com www.indigo-med.com

t: +306944752220