Foundation Projects

Youth project

As a project group of the Waves of Action Initiative of the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea, young people from all over Europe have come together with the aim of reporting on the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice.

Okeanos Foundation Project

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.

Youth project

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”.

Okeanos Foundation Project

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.

Okeanos Foundation Project

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

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”.

Youth project

The SeagrassGuards are a Waves of Action project group with the aim of giving seagrass meadows a voice.

Scientific Cooperation

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. 

Okeanos Foundation Project

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.

Scientific Cooperation

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?

Funding Project

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.

Okeanos Foundation Project

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.

Cooperation

The complement to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals: Inner Development Goals (IDGs)

Okeanos Foundation Project

How can we expand our OceanCamp programme? With this question, the Okeanos team launched a pilot project on Hallig Hooge.

Okeanos Foundation Project

The WAVES OF ACTION ‘OceanCamps’ took place for the fourth time during the nationwide summer holidays.

Funding Project

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

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

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.

Scientific Cooperation

Development of a mentoring programme for the unfolding of personal potentials that enable commitment to a sustainable future

Funding Project

For the first time, Okeanos supports an outstanding nature writer with our project ‘wave writer’.

Scientific Cooperation

Since July 2021, visitors of the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt can marvel at one of the most productive ecosystems of our planet: In an artificial Indo-Pacific coral reef, more than 3000 organisms cavort, which taxidermists in cooperation with scientists have depicted true to life. A mind-changing experience that is not only fun, but also thought-provoking.

Lecture series

As part of our ‘Learning from the sea’ lecture series, we invite you to gain in-depth insights into the diverse ecological, social and economic aspects that shape our seas and oceans today and at the same time to learn from processes within the sea itself.

Funding Project

Die Nature Writing Autorin Michaela Vieser ist Wave Writer Stipendiatin der Okeanos Stiftung für das Meer. Im Zentrum ihrer Arbeit steht der Blick auf unseren menschlichen Umgang mit den Gewässern unseres Planeten.

Okeanos Foundation Project

Tested, proven, continued – that sums up the online format ‘Frag Mich Doch Mal’, where young people can put their questions to experts.