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Hundreds of kilometres away from any sea, ocean or sandy beach, students from countries such as the Czech Republic have been discovering their connection with the marine world.<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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While Europe\u2019s landlocked states are understandably not so preoccupied with seas and oceans, camps run by members of\u00a0Ecsite<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the European network of science centres and museums \u2014 have helped interpret\u00a0video stories about the oceans in local, often-beachless contexts.<\/p>\n

And although the topics they\u2019re discussing are, to many, as distant as the deep blue, this is something that advocates of ocean literacy \u2014 knowledge about the role and importance of the oceans \u2014 are hoping to change.<\/p>\n

Researchers from a project called Sea Change want to fundamentally change the relationship between Europeans and the ocean by empowering them to take direct and sustainable action as ocean-literate citizens.<\/p>\n

Jon Parr, deputy director of the UK\u2019s Marine Biological Association, who coordinates the project, gives the example of the Europe-wide\u00a0Crab Watch<\/a>\u00a0initiative, which encourages people to search for crabs on beaches to help them engage with how the oceans are changing, and how it could impact them.<\/p>\n

\u2018Crab Watch has been great in getting people involved and aware that they can help by reporting invasive crab species \u2014 now with the Crab Watch app \u2014 and other innovative ideas have also arisen, bottom-up, with people inputting ideas,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

As the project comes to an end after three years of research and action aimed at public, government, and educational behavioural change, Parr says Sea Change has reaped some useful insights into how to engage people.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ve had clear results working with the networks like Ecsite, which have all run quite successful citizen engagement programmes,\u2019 said Parr. \u2018But what has also been very effective is having partners taking concrete local action on the ground that communities can (become) involved with \u2014 and that this is also something that media also pick up on locally.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018To change behaviours, we have to target all sectors of society.\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Olga Mashkina, ACTeon, France<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Galway<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sea Change came about as a result of 2013\u2019s\u00a0Galway Statement<\/a>, an agreement which launched the Transatlantic Ocean Research Alliance between the EU, the United States and Canada to better understand the Atlantic Ocean, and to support the sustainable management of its resources.<\/p>\n

Dr Olga Mashkina, an environmental economist with French consultancy ACTeon and coordinator of another Galway spin-off project, ResponSEAble, says ocean literacy needs to better capture the links between human activity and the sea, combining this with actions each person or sector needs to take.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s not just knowledge about the state of the oceans but a deeper understanding of our individual and collective responsibilities to take care of the oceans that take care of us,\u2019 said Dr Mashkina.<\/p>\n

\u2018In the past, the main efforts of ocean literacy were in targeting mainly young people through education programmes. Now we feel that to change behaviours we have to target all components of society, all actors directly or indirectly linked to the status of marine ecosystems.\u2019<\/p>\n

In contrast to Sea Change\u2019s broad strokes, ResponSEAble is developing targeted communication tools that focus on six distinct marine issues as key stories. The format of these tools ranges from computer games and films to training programmes, with each one aiming to raise awareness of a specific ocean challenge and targeting the people who can best address each issue.
\n\u2018For example, one of our partners, ProSea, started to carry out training courses in the fisherman academies in the Netherlands, where they are trusted,\u2019 explained Dr Mashkina. \u2018They have developed various techniques to give the fishermen knowledge that can change their practices in a way that you can\u2019t achieve by just sending a scientist in there.\u2019<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s researchers believe literacy is only one of the factors behind individual or collective action.<\/p>\n

\u2018Many other things like social pressure, emotions, prices and costs drive the acts and decisions we make regarding our seas, but ocean literate people are in a position to take more informed decisions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Big hitters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sea Change\u2019s Parr says the fact that the public is starting to get its head around the need to take care of marine environments is thanks in a big way to groundwork laid by heavy-hitters like Blue Planet and the United Nations.<\/p>\n

\u2018I wouldn\u2019t say that this comes down to Sea Change but we\u2019re part of this movement. A lot of people have bounced off us in talking about issues like ocean litter, and we\u2019re involved in talks with the UN programme on this \u2014 and that\u2019s the kind of sea change we\u2019ve been working for.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The Issue<\/h3>\n

Last year Carlos Moedas, the EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, launched the\u00a0Bel\u00e9m Statement\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 an agreement uniting research in the North and South Atlantic through enhancing cooperation between Brazil, South Africa and the EU.<\/p>\n

To support this agreement, the EU has also allocated more than \u20ac60 million towards\u00a0Atlantic Ocean research<\/a>\u00a0between 2018-2019 as part of the EU\u2019s Horizon 2020 funding programme.<\/p>\n

At the Our Ocean conference in Malta in October 2017, another \u20ac250 million from Horizon 2020 was pledged for\u00a0marine and maritime research, part of\u00a0the \u20ac2.8 billion of funding for sustainable ocean action\u00a0<\/a>committed by the EU, its Member States and the European Investment Bank.<\/p>\n

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