Visit of the Austrian working group "boku.vienna" to Albania.

April 30-May 1, 2024: Visit of the Austrian working group @boku.vienna to Albania.

The project is funded by OeAD @oead.worldwide 🇦🇹 and AKKSHI-NASRI @akkshi_nasri 🇦🇱 "Measurements of macroplastic transport in the Ishëm River, the most polluted river in Europe", with coordinators BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and UAMD-Aleksandër Moisiu University, Durrës, with partners UBT-Agricultural University of Tirana, UT-University of Tirana.

Prof. Dr. Kseanela Sotirofski, Rector of UAMD welcomed Dr. Eng. Marcel Liedermann, Deputy/Director of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research, Eng. Sebastian Pessenlehner from the Austrian group, the Albanian working group and Dr. Fundime Miri, lecturer at UT, FShN, student Sara Selamaj and Prof. Assoc. Jerina Kolitari from UBT.

Likewise, the #MaPIshëm project working group was welcomed by the Municipality of Durrës, Deputy Mayor Gentian Kallmi and Director of Projects and Infrastructure Loren Facja.

The work group then headed towards the Ishmi River to begin work.

We emphasize that this is the first project that brings together 4 universities to carry out measurements for the Ishmi River, while UAMD students have been urging for 4 years, together with Durrës schools & @bashkia_durres & @rivercleanup, to take action to mitigate plastic pollution in collaboration with many public institutions, private companies, and domestic and foreign actors.