Two weeks ago (February 18th, 2016), it was celebrated the ”Dia Aberto do CCMAR”. We received 122 students from different High Schools. CCMAR showed some of the research lines developed in the last years, including genomics, climate change, zebra fish as model species, ecology of Ria Formosa (S Portugal), etc. MARESMA team was represented there, showing the ecological importance of sea cucumbers in marine habitats and their potential as fishery resource, stressing a need of a