The Advanced Planning Visit of SEAL Starts

The advanced planning visit of our European Solidarity Corps Volunteer Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas project “Sustainable Environment for the Aquatic Life – SEAL”, accepted by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), starts tomorrow in Sinop. As part of the visit, we will discuss the details of our volunteering activities which will take place in the 2024 and 2025 summer, together with the volunteers and representatives of our partners from Bulgaria, Georgia, Spain, Portugal, Romania and Jordan. Our project will focus on the threat of increasing pollution in the Black Sea to the marine ecosystem and human health. By dedicating it to the monk seal (monachus monachus), which has become extinct in the Black Sea since it was last seen in 1997, we will take action for the sustenance of the Black Sea ecosystem and especially for the protection of dolphins, which are currently at the top of the food chain in the Black Sea. Within our volunteering teams’ activities, with young people from our partners’ countries and Turkish young people, we will collect waste from under the sea by scuba diving and snorkelling, we will clean the beach, we will exhibit the waste we collect in public areas and on the internet, and we will open the curtain of the hidden truth under the surface of the Black Sea by shooting underwater films.