Okeanos works in a promotional and operational capacity with a dedicated team in Germany and Europe. In doing so, we combine what is particularly close to our hearts: People and oceans
Okeanos – Foundation for the Sea
Vaka Okeanos at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice :
Inspiring a generation to take courageous action!
Genuine connection with the ocean is a prerequisite for us as stakeholders to take the challenging steps to protect this habitat. The Okeanos Foundation for the Sea has learnt from the Custodians of the Pacific what it means to be deeply connected to the ocean. The construction and operation of 16 traditionally built catamarans (Vakas) through Okeanos Foundation has resulted in decades of co-operation with Pacific nations and their cultures. Their attitudes towards the ocean form the basis for today’s youth work of the Okeanos Foundation in Europe. As a people-centred ocean initiative, Okeanos provides long-term individual support to young people to actively, courageously and collectively shape the future of the ocean. In that sense, Vaka Okeanos will be available as a space for experiences and learning space at the UN Ocean Conference in the harbour of Nice.
Extract from the projects:
Okeanos Foundation Project
WAVES OF ACTION - The people centred ocean initiative The Okeanos Foundation's youth initiative for the ocean
WAVES OF ACTION is the youth initiative of the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea. Here, people are at the centre of experience-based, socio-ecological work.
Okeanos Foundation Project
OceanCamp 2.0: Hallig Hooge
How can we expand our OceanCamp programme? With this question, the Okeanos team launched a pilot project on Hallig Hooge.
Okeanos Foundation Project
OceanCamps
The WAVES OF ACTION ‘OceanCamps’ took place for the fourth time during the nationwide summer holidays.
Funding Project
Whalefall – an immersive sound experience by Michaela Vieser and Matas Petrikas
When a whale dies, its body sinks to the bottom of the sea. There, in the cold, dark depths, a transformation begins: the ocean brings back life in an unimaginable way.
Okeanos Foundation Project
Scholarship Ocean Journalism
For the second time, the research scholarship for marine reporting took place on the Vaka Okeanos in the Mediterranean. Young journalists from various regions came together to spend a week on board the catamaran researching and reporting on the Mediterranean and its pressing problems.
Cooperation
‘Active Hope’ - from resignation to shaping the future
Being confident sounds good, but is easier said than done. After all, we stumble from crisis to crisis, one bad news story tops the next in the news, and part of society sees itself as the ‘last generation’ that has to manage to turn the tide on climate protection and species extinction in a short space of time.
Funding Project
Wave writer 2022: Michaela Vieser
For the first time, Okeanos supports an outstanding nature writer with our project ‘wave writer’.
Okeanos Foundation Project
Frag Mich Doch Mal (Ask Me Anything)
Tested, proven, continued – that sums up the online format ‘Frag Mich Doch Mal’, where young people can put their questions to experts.
Cooperation
IDG Watchparty in Darmstadt - Application open
The complement to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals: Inner Development Goals (IDGs)