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SturNet received an Honourable Mention at the Black Sea Project Awards 2026, announced during the Common Maritime Agenda Stakeholder Conference in Burgas. The recognition highlights the project’s contribution to healthy marine and coastal ecosystems, sturgeon conservation, and regional cooperation in the Black Sea Basin.
The SturNet consortium gathered in Türkiye for TPM4, hosted by Gebze Technical University. The meeting combined project coordination, digital cooperation tool planning, future collaboration discussions, and a study visit to a sturgeon breeding centre in Bolu.
The SturNet team presented the project’s Digital Mapping Tool at the 46th IAD Conference in Baja, Hungary. The poster highlighted environmental monitoring, mobile reporting, spatial visualization, eDNA indicators, and digital tools supporting sturgeon conservation in the Danube–Black Sea region.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki organised a national awareness-raising event focused on sturgeon conservation, environmental DNA monitoring, aquaculture, biodiversity protection, and cooperation for the sustainability of the Black Sea Basin ecosystem. The event included eight scientific presentations and brought together researchers, academics, students, and other interested stakeholders.
SturNet researchers completed acoustic range testing, deployed receivers, and tagged ten sturgeons to support long-term monitoring of movement, habitat use, and conservation needs in the Sakarya River.
“Building a Transnational Network for Sturgeon Conservation in the Black Sea Basin”. GeoEcoMar hosted an international SturNet workshop focused on transnational cooperation, innovative digital tools, scientific exchange, and long-term action for the protection of sturgeon species in the Black Sea Basin.
As part of the international seminar on marine pollution management held in Odesa, the SturNet project highlighted new opportunities for environmental education, scientific cooperation, and transnational action for sturgeon conservation in the Black Sea Basin.
Between March and December 2025, SturNet partners from Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine collected non-invasive skin mucus samples and advanced eDNA-based molecular analyses, identifying 14 sturgeon specimens and supporting improved biodiversity monitoring in the Black Sea Basin.
The Aristotle University team presented SturNet research at ETAGRO 2025 in Florina, Greece, highlighting eDNA-based detection of Trichodina spp. and its implications for sturgeon population health, ecosystem monitoring, and future parasite-risk assessment in the Black Sea Basin.
Undergraduate students from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki visited Oxyrynghos Hellas S.A. in Kefalari, Drama, as part of the Aquaculture & Fish Breeding course. The visit introduced students to sturgeon production, hatchery systems, grow-out raceways, biosecurity, and caviar production.