This is the 4th year of the Greek-French Festival 'Les Recontres de la Terre', organised under the auspices of the Municipality of Athens. It is a cycle of six lectures entitled "Water , Air, Earth , Fire: observing the planet," which will highlight the European observation programs (space , underwater, ground, underground ) Earth, involving Greek and French reserach teams. The cycle of events began in February and will be completed in June.
The PERSEUS project was presented by the coordinator, Dr. Vangelis Papathanassiou, in the framework of the acitivities towards Clean Seas by 2020, while Dr. Xavier Durrieu de Madron gave a talk on research activities conducted under the MERMEX project.
A newspaper article in the national media was published about the event (available only in Greek).
PERSEUS @ Greek-French Event on 'Future of our Seas', Institut Francais in Athens, Greece