The Center for Marine Research (CMR) Rovinj is an interdisciplinary center, whose activities are focused upon basic and applied oceanographic research, including the following areas:

• Processes and dynamics within and between trophic levels (primary and secondary production, cycle of basic and biogenic elements);
• Investigation of water mass dynamics;
• Flora, fauna and animal communities (taxonomy, ecology and organism communities in natural and polluted areas);
• Ecological, physiological and genetic research on marine organisms and the impacts of pollution; monitoring of pollution and marine water quality; investigation of eutrophication.