Create an educational-scientific hub dedicated to the protection of the Tiber and the coastal system to intervene along the main waterways and act at the origin of one of the most urgent threats to the health of the seas.
From this assumption the “Marevivo Floating Hub” was born, entirely dedicated to the protection of the Tiber and the coastal system and whose creation starts from an assumption: the pollution that reaches the sea comes from the rivers since they convey all the waste and microplastics from the urban centers to the coastal ecosystems.
Created by the Marevivo Foundation at the Scalo de Pinedo in Rome, a few steps from the “Lungotevere delle Navi” Naturalistic Oasis, the Hub will be an innovative center for monitoring, research and awareness, with the aim of transforming knowledge into action and concrete tools for protecting the environment.
Furthermore, the floating structure will host the River and Urban Biodiversity Center created in collaboration with the National Research Council (CNR) as part of the initiatives promoted by the Biodiversity Gateway of the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), a national center financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the European Union through NextGeneration EU funds.
For decades Marevivo, thanks to its floating headquarters moored at the Scalo de Pinedo, has been a “sentinel of the Tiber capable of monitoring its state of health and transformations. From today, thanks to the precious scientific support of the CNR, the Foundation will have the opportunity to make citizens aware of the rich biodiversity and the great ecological value of this river. The new educational-scientific center was created with the aim of bringing more and more people closer to the knowledge and protection of the river environment, because protecting the river means take care of the sea and the future of all of us, declares Raffaella Giugni, General Secretary of Marevivo.
The “Marevivo Floating Hub” was created to bring people closer to science and environmental protection in a concrete and participatory way. Volunteers, students, teachers and researchers will be involved in activities citizen sciencelaboratories and monitoring campaigns, supported by biologists and experts. A direct way to observe, study and protect river ecosystems.
The project is part of a process already underway for the protection of the Tiber and the Aniene: from the waste-catching barriers installed by the Lazio Region, to the new overlooking parks opened by the Municipality of Rome in 2025. The creation of the hub also required an important redevelopment of the area, with the reclamation of the seabed and the river bed, in a stretch of great historical and environmental value recognized by UNESCO.
With this new structure, Rome enters a national network dedicated to biodiversity, connecting to the other hubs already active between Palermo and Venice and to the territorial nodes of Fano, Naples and Lecce. A further step towards a more conscious and shared management of our natural heritage.
