Dear all we want to inform you  that the fieldwork with litter clean-up and registration should be held in the CRIPTIC pilot region along the Caspian coast  on 8th of August 2021. 

Further education and training workshops will be held in Azerbaijan prior to the field study. The groundworks are coordinated with other work packages, including litter registration with remote sensing technologies (using multi-copter and satellite images) and engagement of the local population.

Project info:

Cleaning Riverine Plastic from a Transboundary Inflow to the Caspian (CRIPTIC) project is funded by the Norwegian Retailers' Environmental Fund (Handelens Miljøfund). 

The main objective of CRIPTIC is to build capacity in the Caspian region to reduce plastic litter to the Caspian Sea. The project is organised in three work packages, called:

1) Riverbank cleaning and classification of plastic pollution from the Kura River;

2) Mapping for cleaning;

3) Community engagement.

Project partners:

The project is led by Akvaplan-niva and partners are:  the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), SALT, TerraNor;

Azerbaijan side co-lead by CASPISNET (Caspian Integrated Scientific Network) and Azerbaijan Geographical Society (AGS), and partners are: the Institute of Geography - The Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan Republic, Executive Power of Neftchala Region, BP in  Azerbaijan, AT-GEOTECH LLC, ESRI, Azercosmos, Caspian Locus LLC, Spectra LLC, AZ-GREEN, Caspian Geomatics LLC,  Sukanal SRDI of Azersu OJSC (Sukanal), Water Expert Union (WEU), Baku Engineering University, Baku Clean City, AZ EKOL and many others. 

For participation in CRIPTIC The First Field work please send your Cv to  - [email protected];

For more information about the project please contact:

1. Dr. Peygham Ghaffari - CRIPTIC Project manager,

    e-mail:  [email protected]  

2. Dr. Elnur Safarov   - CRIPTIC Project Manager for Azerbaijan,

   e-mail: [email protected]