Maritime Forum
Pledges submitted
We pledge for improving our oceans to sustain and safeguard our surroundings, landscape and fisheries, as they have been our source for safe and savory food, recreation and enjoyment.
Amicos Asociación
Affiliation:
Special Education School
City/Country: Boiro, Spain
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to include basic lessons about the ocean in my classroom / curriculum.
Melina Kalli
Affiliation:
Pascal Primary School Nicosia
City/Country: Nicosia, Cyprus
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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We promise to think lovingly of the ocean.
To learn and reveal their infinite secrets.
Let's take care of their cleanliness.
To value the life of aquatic inhabitants.
Let's protect the Blue!
Zlatinka Dimitrova
Affiliation:
Kindergarten 23 Iglika Varna
City/Country: Varna, Bulgaria
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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As a secondary school teacher I will introduce the delicate marine ecosystem and its protection
Maria Sapia
Affiliation:
School IC Vivaldi Catanzaro
City/Country: Catanzaro, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean
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I'm going to involve my students in an international and interdisciplinary project of knoledge and protection of the sea.
Francesca Carito
Affiliation:
school IC Vivaldi Catanzaro
City/Country: Catanzaro Lido, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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Living in a coastal city, this project aims to educate new generations to respect and protect the marine habitat.
FRANCESCA MUSARELLA
Affiliation:
SCHOOL IC VIVALDI CATANZARO
City/Country: Catanzaro, Italy
Theme(s): Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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As a pre-primary school teacher I’m going to make children get to know the sea as a resource and a delicate ecosystem to discover.
Assunta Procopio
Affiliation:
School IC Vivaldi Catanzaro
City/Country: Catanzaro, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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As a pre-primary school teacher I'm going to make children get to know the sea as a resource and a delicate ecosystem to discover.
Maria Grazia Casalinuovo
Affiliation:
School IC Vivaldi Catanzaro
City/Country: Catanzaro, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I' d like to involve my students in an international and interdisciplinary project and make them relate to the topic of environmental education and the protection of the sea.
Antonella Sellia
Affiliation:
ICS Vincenzo Vivaldi
City/Country: Catanzaro, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I think my 4 year old students should have the opportunity to know the sea as a resource and develop a genuine enviromental consciousness.
Paola Gullà
Affiliation:
I. C. Vivaldi Catanzaro
City/Country: Catanzaro, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I think my 4 year old students should have the opportunity to know the sea as a resource and develop a genuine enviromental consciousness.
Marialaura Gabini
City/Country: Catanzaro , Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I think my 4 year old students should have the opportunity to know the sea as a resource and develop a genuine enviromental consciousness.
Silvana Ferrari
Affiliation:
I.C.Vivaldi CZ-Italy
City/Country: Catanzaro , Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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As a School and part of a collaborative Trust, our aim is to teach our children the 7 Ocean Principles to understand the importance of our precious Ocean and the life within it.
Joanne Llewellyn
Affiliation:
Widey Court Primary School (part of Connect Academy Trust)
City/Country: Plymouth, United Kingdom
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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Lise öğrencilerinde bilinç kazandıracağım.Yeni nesil gençlik değerlerine fazla çıkmıyor.Onlara öğretmek istiyorum.
NESLİHAN GÜRECİ
Affiliation:
GAZİ ANADOLU LİSESİ
City/Country: KÜÇÜKÇEKMECE, Turkey
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I love the world we live in. I promise to teach my students to protect the world's water resources and to keep the seas clean.
NESLİHAN GÜRECİ
Affiliation:
GAZİ ANADOLU LİSESİ
City/Country: İstanbul, Turkey
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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Project topic: "Children take care of the blue of the ocean"
Tsvetka Zhurnalova
Affiliation:
Kindergarten №3 "Zvezdichka" - Varna sity
City/Country: Varna, Bulgaria
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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Take care of the climate and you will help oceans , as well!
Anisa Fejzo
Affiliation:
Junior High School
City/Country: , Albania
Theme(s): Ocean and climate
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Take care of the climate and you will help oceans , as well!
Anisa Fejzo
Affiliation:
Junior High School
City/Country: , Albania
Theme(s): Ocean and climate
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Our school uses new ICT technologies to introduce marine science to students and young people and to make them understand sea economy sustainability and contribute for our healthy and clean sea.
Daniela Castelluccia
Affiliation:
Vito Sante Longo
City/Country: Monopoli, Italy
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to use my marine expertise to raise curiosity and awareness about our Ocean in my local community, and to use my passion for the environment and music to move and empower society!
Kate Larkin
Affiliation:
EMODnet
City/Country: Bruges, Belgium
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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From shallow to deep, EMODnet Bathymetry keeps gathering bathymetry data from government, research and industry for refining its Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the European seas, serving many uses.
Thierry Schmitt
Affiliation:
Shom, EMODnet Bathymetry
City/Country: Brest, France
Theme(s): Ocean and climate
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"Our pledge is to avoid personal litter to become a marine litter"
Giulia Castiglioni
Affiliation:
ML-CSA – Study the Marine Litter dispersion: CitizenScience Application Case (IIS CAPELLINI-SAURO, ITALY)
City/Country: La Spezia, Italy
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to continue living an ocean-conscious life: refuse seafood, reduce my carbon footprint while I am researching and raising awareness about how rivers can contribute to ocean health.
Luca Jendrek
City/Country: , Hungary
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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EMODnet Ingestion pledges to continue attracting new data providers and further diversifying marine data ingested into EMODnet such as from civil society, citizen science and wider societal activities
Athanasia Iona
Affiliation:
European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Data Ingestion
City/Country: Athens, Greece
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean, Open data and availability
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As a researcher, I strive to introduce marine science to citizens and young people and to make them understand the link between our world and the ocean. Personally I work to reduce the use of plastic.
Francesca Alvisi
Affiliation:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Scienze Marine /BlueS_Med/BlueNIGHTs
City/Country: Bologna, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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EMODnet Human Activities pledges to keep on mapping the location and extent of all human activity in the ocean. Data on what we do in our oceans and where we do it is key to protecting them.
Alessandro Pititto
Affiliation:
EMODnet Human Activities
City/Country: Rome, Italy
Theme(s): Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to continue reducing my use of single use plastics. In my organisation, we pledge to raise public awareness and take concrete action to achieve the ultimate goal of a sustainable ocean.
Veronique Landes
Affiliation:
Mercator Ocean International
City/Country: Toulouse, France
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to continue my small environmental activism within Beeco initiative as long as it is possible
Incha Aliyeva
Affiliation:
Beeco initiative
City/Country: Baku, Azerbaijan
Theme(s): Ocean and climate
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I pledge to continue my research on ocean-related issues, spread awareness and empower youth engagement by developing expertise through my involvement in organisations like the AYO.
Katharina Heinrich
Affiliation:
Arctic Youth Network Oceans Group (AYO)
City/Country: , Finland
Theme(s): Ocean and climate
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I pledge to volunteer at a local non-profit dedicated to ocean protection. Corals, mangrooves and marine mammals conservation, observation and education.
Jerry J. Pelikan
Affiliation:
Earthforce Fight Squad
City/Country: Le Gosier, Guadeloupe
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to collect waste on the beach and at sea, reduce waste by upcycling products and create awareness for our precious resources - the earth's ecosystems are interconnected!
Katharina Kurzweil
Affiliation:
Umoyalife Upcycling Design
City/Country: Berlin, Germany
Theme(s): Ocean and climate
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I am used to preserving the marine environment and securing the coasts of the Mediterranean from the danger of pollution as much as I can
Mohammed Ziyada
Affiliation:
Renile
City/Country: Damitta, Egypt
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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At PaCo we pledge to:
- only buy food from local producers for our events
- ban disposable plastics from our events and activities
- shift digital-only procedures regarding internal bureaucracy
Pavilhão do Conhecimento Centro Ciência Viva
Affiliation:
Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Centro Ciência Viva
City/Country: Lisbon, Portugal
Theme(s): Ocean and climate
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We are pledge to become part of the European Network of Blue Schools. To develop ocean literacy through the school curriculum.
Sanja Pešić
Affiliation:
Elementary School "Josip Pupačić"
City/Country: Omiš, Croatia
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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Food and ocean
Maryam Taha
Affiliation:
Faculty of science Suez canal university
City/Country: Ismailia, Egypt
Theme(s): Food from the Ocean
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I continue convening regular Berlin Ocean Dinners. These informal exchanges support knowledge sharing, networking and quality discussions between colleagues working on marine issues in Berlin.
Markus Knigge
Affiliation:
Blue Action Fund
City/Country: Berlin, Germany
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to inform and advocate ocean matters in family, friends & professional circles and to focus my professional activity on missions benefiting the ocean & sustainability of coastal communities.
Serge Gomes da Silva
City/Country: VAYRES, France
Theme(s): Food from the Ocean
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EMODnet Physics pledge to continue deliver and further expand the availability of marine physics data in the ocean, including the coastal zone and polar regions, through increased citizen engagement
Antonio Novellino
Affiliation:
ETT
City/Country: Genova, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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Produce a book that provides an easy-to-read overview of our understanding of the ocean, the issues it faces, and specific suggestions for things we can do to improve ocean health: theoceanandus.com.
Farah Obaidullah
Affiliation:
Women4Oceans
City/Country: The Hague, Netherlands
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean, Enhancing awareness of all the ways we interact with the ocean.
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EMODnet Biology pledges to continue making biodiversity data freely available according to international open standards and FAIR principles.
Joana Beja
Affiliation:
EMODnet Biology
City/Country: Oostende, Belgium
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to continue to spread science culture and empathy through engaging stories.
Neus Figueras Balaña
Affiliation:
I'm With Lorac
City/Country: Barcelona, Spain
Theme(s): Ocean Literacy
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MATES pledges to promote its Ocean Literacy products as good practices for the maritime industry, to increase the attractiveness of maritime careers & ensure high-tech & long-term future of the sector
Lucía Fraga
Affiliation:
MATES
City/Country: , Spain
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean, Maritime Technologies
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EMODnet Chemistry pledges to global cooperation for marine data sharing towards quality and legitimated research. Open Science generates reliable information, supporting effective marine strategies.
Alessandra Giorgetti
Affiliation:
European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Chemistry
City/Country: Trieste, Italy
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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Never to give up in promoting sustainability!
Romulus-Marian Paiu
Affiliation:
Mare Nostrum NGO
City/Country: Constanta, Romania
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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DelTa NGO pledges to continue to get insights and inform people on ocean literacy through out TikTok campaign https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8bgJ7pQ/
Milena Tempesta
Affiliation:
DelTa NGO
City/Country: Trieste, Italy
Theme(s): Food from the Ocean, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I pledge to use my social media presence to spread knowledge on the state of the ocean.
Sophia Milusheva
Affiliation:
CINEA
City/Country: Brussels, Belgium
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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While we continue to improve the quality and coverage of marine geological data from the European seas, we expand the coverage beyond Europe e.g., Caspian Sea, and the Caribbean Sea.
Henry Vallius
Affiliation:
EMODnet Geology
City/Country: Espoo, Finland
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Healthy and Clean ocean
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I promise to include basic ocean lessons in the classroom.
Anica-Maria Tanase
Affiliation:
Liceul Teoretic Mircea Eliade Galați
City/Country: Galati, Romania
Theme(s): Ocean and climate, Food from the Ocean
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I pledge to reduce my use of single-use plastics, for a healthy and clean ocean.
Dirk Beckers
Affiliation:
CINEA
City/Country: Brussels, Belgium
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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EMODnet Seabed Habitats will continue to improve & expand the coverage of the broadscale seabed habitat map for Europe, EUSeaMap, which serves as a base map for national, regional & global assessments
Helen Lillis
Affiliation:
European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - Seabed Habitats
City/Country: Brussels, Belgium
Theme(s): Healthy and Clean ocean
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