What can a small German foundation achieve on the ground? The UNOC is over and we take a look back to draw a very personal conclusion for the future.
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Okeanos is looking forward to supporting ARTPORT in 2025 and bringing the WE ARE OCEAN project to a school in Hesse. Since 2019, WE ARE OCEAN has been bringing together artists, art collectors and curators, pupils, students and teachers, scientists and political decision-makers in many places around the world to raise awareness of the environmental state of the ocean and the role of humans in its current and future state.
Under the direction of Tomma Schröder and Katja Trippel and in collaboration with renowned science journalists, the research project “Future North Sea and Baltic Sea – how our seas are changing” produced 12 articles that take a broad look at the seas on our doorstep.
How can fields of journalism be improved (sea, rivers) and a new, holistic narrative be stimulated? To what extent can migratory salmon-like fish be used to tell cross-genre and cross-media success stories that transcend the human-nature boundary?
The SeagrassGuards are a Waves of Action project group with the aim of giving seagrass meadows a voice.
United by a passion for the ocean and a desire to initiate change, the young people work on the script, filming, interviews, editing and production. In the film, three young people discover the beauty of protected areas on a sailing trip, but also realise that “protected” does not always mean “safe”.
All participants of the France camps come together in the so-called BaseCamp to be intensively prepared for content, processes and group dynamics in a large community for a week.
For the fourth year in a row, the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea is offering OceanCamps off the coast of southern France on our traditional Polynesian catamaran Vaka Okeanos through the youth initiative “Waves of Action”.
Building on the success of these camps and the participants’ desire to experience more camps and learn about other marine ecosystems, the foundation has developed the OceanCamps Sweden pilot project in 2025.
In 2025, the weekend took place on Schönberg beach, right by the Baltic Sea. With around 50 participants from previous years’ camps, we continued to work on existing projects and develop new project ideas.
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