important events

The 2nd NERITES educational workshop, entitled “Underwater Archaeology in Practice: Methods, Technologies and Field Applications”, took place on 9–10 September 2026 in Fournoi, Greece. Organised by the KORSEAI Institute of Historical and Archaeological Research, with the support of NERITES, the two-day workshop connected underwater archaeological methods with blue technologies and practical field applications. Day 1 […]

From 31 August to 5 September 2026, the project’s consortium carried out the first pilot campaign of the NERITES solution at the submerged Villa dei Pisoni of the Underwater Archaeological Park of Baia in Italy, marking an important step from system integration to field demonstration. The campaign brought the integrated NERITES solution into a real

The NERITES project participated in the 34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2026), held from 23 to 26 June 2026 in Ancona, Italy. The paper “Nerites Framework: An Open-Source ROS2 Gym Environment for Intelligent Underwater Robotics” introduced an open-source simulation framework supporting the development and training of autonomous underwater vehicles through Reinforcement Learning.

NERITES participated in the Green Heritage Cluster Webinar “From Heritage Data to Heritage Intelligence: Early Results from European Cultural Heritage Monitoring Projects”, held online on 30 June 2026. The webinar brought together four European projects of the Green Heritage Cluster — NERITES, ARGUS, ChemiNova and iPhotoCult — to share early outcomes, approaches and experiences from

The NERITES project is pleased to participate in the upcoming Green Heritage Cluster Webinar, titled “From Heritage Data to Heritage Intelligence: Early Results from European Cultural Heritage Monitoring Projects”, which will take place online on 30 June 2026, at 14:00 CEST. The webinar will bring together 4 European projects, members of the Green Heritage Cluster

The NERITES project was invited to participate in the ChemiNova Summer School 2026, held from 9 to 12 June 2026 in hybrid format, with online sessions and on-site training at the ImViA Lab, Université Bourgogne Europe, Dijon, France. The Summer School focused on heritage conservation, digital innovation, and climate resilience, bringing together experts, students, and

The NERITES project was presented at the HERITECHNE International Conference 2026, held in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy, from 10 to 12 June 2026. During the conference, Carlotta Sacco Perasso presented the contribution entitled “Process-Oriented Vulnerability Modeling for Underwater Cultural Heritage: From Structured Diagnosis to Parametric Degradation Indices”, within the Special Session “Emerging Technologies for the Documentation,

On 25–26 February 2026, the NERITES consortium gathered in Genoa, Italy for the 5th Project Meeting, kindly hosted by project partner Graal Tech. The two-day meeting brought together partners to review the progress achieved across the project and coordinate the next steps towards the implementation and validation of the NERITES solution. Discussions focused on the

In January 29, 2026, the NERITES project was presented by its coordinator, Marcel Rieck from Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), at the AMU UNESCO Chair International Conference – New challenges for UW nature and cultural heritage tourism during the Ocean Decade, which was organized by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology and the UNESCO Chair

In January 2026, Alpes Lasers, partner of the NERITES project, participated in the SPIE Photonics West 2026, one of the world’s leading international events in photonics and laser technologies, held in San Francisco, USA, from 20 to 22 January 2026. The event brought together more than 20,000 participants from 85 countries, featured 1,400 exhibitors, and included over 4,500