Launched on the 8^th of June 2020 by the Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, the EU4Ocean Coalition, which aims at supporting collective ocean literacy in Europe, is moving to action!

You are invited to join the 1^st “EU4Ocean workshop Designing Ocean Literacy actions in Europe” on September 24 – 25, 2020 (online). How?

• Attend our opening workshop (September 24, 2020; 09:30 – 10:30 CEST), which will present the ambition of the coalition. Focus will be on the importance of collective action and the drivers to sound ocean literacy at all decision-making levels in Europe.
• Discover the three communities of the coalition, their vision, values, founding members and ambitions:

1. The EU4Ocean platform (September 24^th, 10:30 – 12:00 CEST) engaging European organisations committed to ocean literacy
2. The Youth4Ocean Forum (September 24th, 14:00 – 15:45 CEST) mobilising young people and professionals
3. The European network of Blue Schools (September 24^th, 16:00 -o 15:30 CEST) promoting blue challenge projects in schools

• Contribute to the emergence and implementation of ocean literacy dynamics and initiatives

Bring your expertise and interest in the Thematic Workshops (September 25^th, 10:00 – 12:00 CEST) addressing the Healthy and Clean Ocean, Climate and Ocean, and Food from the Ocean themes

Co-build ocean literacy strategies, dynamics and practical actions at the sea basin scales (September 25^th ,between  13:00 – 16h30 CEST specific time for each workshop): Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.

What will happen after this multi-workshop online event? Let’s get concrete and take the necessary steps to consolidate and implement the strategies and actions that you have co-built.

We are eager to see a diverse and growing community engaged in Ocean Literacy in Europe. Hopefully, many of participants not yet members of the three communities will be inspired to join the EU4Ocean coalition!

The agenda of each session along with the links for them are published on the EU4Ocean website.

Please find the link to all the workshops HERE!

You can register for one or more workshops via this ONLINE FORM. Afterward, the workshop organiser will send you a link to join the meeting that you have signed up for.