Waste management and recycling

Technical reports

D.1.4.2: Retrieving information on beach clean-up activities from social network sites. Socio-economic impact.

Responsible Partner: IEO

Date: September 2024

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Description: This report presents the design and implementation of an algorithm to obtain X and Instagram data related to beach and coastal clean-up activities. The objective is to obtain a dataset with information on this type of activities in the 4 countries of the Atlantic Area programme. This dataset will provide valuable information for understanding environmental awareness of the marine litter problem, as well as quantifying the social and economic impact associated with the development of beach and coastal clean-up campaigns.

Good practices

Good practices website

Responsible Partner: UBS

Date: xxx 2025

Website link: Link

Description: Pending…

Publications

Challenges of passive citizen science in ecology within a shifting social media landscape

Responsible Partner: IEO-CSIC

Date: June 2025

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Description: This Viewpoint article examines the current challenges associated with passive citizen science and underscores the need to strengthen this valuable approach to support regional solutions that account for linguistic diversity, multiple data sources, fluctuating user engagement, and the integration of artificial intelligence tools for the supervision and classification of images and text.


This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme. The views expressed herein should not be taken, in any way, to reflect the official opinion of the EU, and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.