To reach its goals, SturNet is built around three main activities:

  1. Data Collection and Model Development

    The project collects environmental, biological, and genetic (eDNA) data to understand where and when sturgeons are at greatest risk. This data feeds into the development of the project’s digital tools. Historical datasets and real-time field campaigns from multiple partner countries are combined to model population dynamics.

  2. Development of the Transnational Sturgeon Network “SturNet”

    A collaborative network is being established among researchers, NGOs, local authorities, and public institutions. This platform supports joint conservation strategies, awareness campaigns, and knowledge-sharing on threats and solutions across the Black Sea region.

  3. Digital Mapping Tool and Mobile App

    A key innovation of the project is the creation of a real-time Digital Mapping Tool and App. This platform will show marine areas categorized by their need for conservation- interactive, open-access, and updated dynamically with new monitoring results.

Main Expected Results:

The SturNet project will deliver three key outputs:

  1. Joint Policy Brief on Sturgeon Conservation

    A consolidated document agreed upon by all partners, offering policy recommendations to improve the conservation status of sturgeon species in the Black Sea Basin.

  2. SturNet Digital Cooperation Tool

    A real-time, web-based mapping platform and mobile application that categorizes marine areas based on their conservation risk for sturgeons, updated dynamically with monitoring data.

  3. Publication of Population Dynamics

    A scientific publication presenting the analysis of sturgeon population dynamics, based on both historical and newly collected environmental and biological data.


These outputs will contribute to two main results: