SCHEDULE 2025

Parts of the programme are published as soon as they are confirmed. Changes in the schedule may occur.

Day 1
09 Nov 2025
Day 2
10 Nov 2025
Day 3
11 Nov 2025
Day 4
12 Nov 2025
Day 5
13 Nov 2025
Day 6
14 Nov 2025
Day 7
15 Nov 2025

Smart buoy developments and technologies applied in Cyprus

Climate and environmental blind spots of sea water raised an alarm decades ago. Although sea monitoring started years ago, the information was not sufficient to allow sea status, evaluation of...
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Nikolas Flourentzou
Lefteris Economou

Enabling Intelligent Multi-Modular Structures for Ocean Energy Harvesting

Offshore solar platforms offer a promising solution by utilizing abundant areas available at sea, but their high cost and harsh conditions can be a challenge. This lecture presents a novel...
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Dong Trong Nguyen

From Arctic Expeditions to Coastal Labs: Robotic Infrastructure for Marine Monitoring

The impact from research in marine robotics emerges in innovative implementations in joint projects combing science and technology. To challenge the knowledge fronts, development of tools and methods beyond the...
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Martin Ludvigsen

Automated detection of sperm whale clicks under interference from noise transient

Sperm whales produce powerful and broadband echolocation clicks that serve as their primary means of communication and prey localization in deep ocean environments. Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) systems provide a...
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Meisam Jahanshahi Zeitouni

Monitoring the Mobility of Sea Turtles in Video Footage

Monitoring the behavior of marine fauna in captivity is an efficient method for understanding the impact of anthropogenic activities as well as exploring behavioral indicators. Sea turtles, which are migratory...
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Marko Barišić

TUTORIAL 1 INTRO: Underwater Noise Maps – a demonstration of the HARMONI-SN webtool and tutorial of practical acoustic measurements

Over the past decades, Underwater radiated noise (URN) from vessels has been identified as a significant threat to the health of marine ecosystems due to the adverse behavioural and physical...
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Mark Shipton

DETECTION OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SIGNALS CHALLENGE – INTRODUCTION

The detection of underwater signal is a key enabling technique for any active and passive underwater acoustic sensor applications. Technologies such as SONAR imaging, acoustic communication, depth detectors, and signal...
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Towards Autonomous Robotic Organizations

The field of marine robotics is advancing quickly as ocean industries, science, and defence require better spatial and temporal coverage for mapping and monitoring. Autonomous underwater vehicles are moving beyond...
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Asgeir Johan Sørensen

Between Tradition and Innovation: Breaking the Surface in Underwater Cultural Heritage Management in Cyprus

New technologies have been closely linked with the development of underwater archaeology since its very beginnings. Advances in exploring what lies beneath the seabed and in mapping underwater sites provided...
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Anna Demetriou Patsalidou

Geophysical challenges in mapping ancient harbor systems: preliminary insights from the SHIPs project

Geophysical methods have become standard in archaeology due to the non-destructive manner in which information from the subsurface is obtained. Large areas can be mapped quickly, without the need to...
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Michael Lazar

TUTORIAL 4 INTRO: Marine Policy and Co-Management in Marine Protected Areas – Through Serious Play

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) stand among the most effective tools for safeguarding marine ecosystems, supporting biodiversity, and promoting sustainability in the rapidly evolving blue sector. This interactive tutorial, designed for...
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Barbara Čolić
Hrvoje Čižmek

TUTORIAL 3 INTRO: Subsea Object Recovery with a ROV in the MARUS Simulator

This tutorial will demonstrate how to perform underwater object recovery using the MARUS simulator in Unity. Participants will operate a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) equipped with a robotic manipulator to...
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Natko Kraševac

T3 HANDS-ON Group 2

Natko Kraševac

T4 HANDS-ON Group 1

Barbara Čolić
Hrvoje Čižmek

T4 HANDS-ON Group 2

Barbara Čolić
Hrvoje Čižmek

T3 HANDS-ON Group 1

Natko Kraševac

Amphibious Data: Sensing and Robotics Where Land Meets Water

Collecting data from the dynamic interface between land and water — such as surf zones, shallow coastal waters, river estuaries, and soft coastlines — remains an underdeveloped frontier in environmental...
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Maarja Kruusmaa

Sustainability Robotics – Lifelike robots for Environmental Sensing

Environmental sciences rely heavily on accurate, timely and complete data sets which are often collected manually at significant risks and costs. Robotics and mobile sensor networks can collect data more...
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Mirko Kovac

From Passion to Action: Building Opportunities in Marine Conservation

The ocean is full of wonder, but also of profound challenges. Today, one of the most pressing issues is not scientific, but systemic: the growing gap between the number of...
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Carlo Cerrano

TUTORIAL 5 INTRO: Microplastics Detection

Microplastic pollution is a topic of growing global concern. Due to their highly durable characteristics, plastics never fully decompose in nature (Martí et al., 2020). When exposed to the elements,...
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Giannis Loizides
Maria-Christina Constantinou

T5 HANDS-ON (Group 1 and 2)

Giannis Loizides
Maria-Christina Constantinou

TUTORIAL 2 INTRO: The Need for Speed! Enjoying the Thrill of Autonomous Guidance

Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) are increasingly being deployed in dynamic and demanding scenarios. For such a reason, this Tutorial explores the cutting-edge techniques of advanced autonomous guidance, with a focus...
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Marco Bibuli

T2 HANDS-ON Group 1 and 2

The hands-on activity will be based on simulative testing of the proposed guidance techniques, allowing attendees to tune to system, provide enhancements, evaluate the operational limits. The equipment needed will...
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Marco Bibuli

COMPANY PRESENTATION: NORTEK AS

Our technology is used in oceanography and subsea navigation: Nortek’s advanced Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) use the Doppler effect to measure motion in the...
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Kristian Sem
Cristobal Molina

CHALLENGE DAY 3

Download your data from the below link and follow the instructions in the readme file: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T3cXZ4ZMscJe-51SkQfonGWU3HWUKc9m?usp=sharing UPDATE: For the known signal, please provide the time of arrival results relative to...
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Unfolding the Marine Protected Areas in the Republic of Cyprus

The Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus, is the Competent Authority for the protection and...
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Maria Christou

Understanding and monitoring the effects of stressors on shallow water habitats

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) is a global hotspot of various stressors that have resulted in dramatic losses of native species, driven by the synergistic effect of warming, bioinvasions, more...
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Louis Hadjioannou

Fuelink: Where Digitalization Meets Decarbonization in Marine Fuel Procurement

This presentation will explore how digital tools can enhance transparency, coordination, and efficiency in marine fuel procurement. It will examine the operational challenges faced by the shipping industry—such as waiting...
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Konstantin Bronetskiy

How deep we can understand biology without biology

Advances in microbial oceanography increasingly rely on indirect approaches—modeling, chemistry, physics, and big data—to infer biological processes in the aquatic environment. But how far can we go in understanding life...
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Sandi Orlić

TUTORIAL 7 INTRO: The Climarest Marine Restoration Digital Toolbox: An Online Decision-Support Platform

The tutorial will introduce the Marine Restoration Toolbox and provide a hands-on session on how to use its resources and tools. Participants will first be guided through the resources available...
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Hassan Elkholy 
Lara Veylit
Antonio Vasilijevic

TUTORIAL 8 INTRO: Rapid Integration Loop via Simulation: Underwater Docking

This demonstration presents a rapid integration framework for developing and deploying autonomous underwater docking behaviors. Participants will write and test control code in a high-fidelity simulator replicating subsea conditions such...
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Gabriele Kasparaviciute
Ambjørn Waldum

T7 HANDS-ON Group 1

Hassan Elkholy 
Lara Veylit
Antonio Vasilijevic

T8 HANDS-ON Group 2

Gabriele Kasparaviciute
Ambjørn Waldum

T7 HANDS-ON Group 2

Hassan Elkholy 
Lara Veylit
Antonio Vasilijevic

T8 HANDS-ON Group 1

Gabriele Kasparaviciute
Ambjørn Waldum
Breaking the Surface