Five Ocean Decade Collaborative Centres (DCCs) and three new Ocean Decade Implementing Partners (DIPs) will provide targeted support to the Ocean Decade through a coordination and catalysis role for Decade Actions at the regional or thematic level.
Decade Collaborative Centres and Decade Implementing Partners are institutions that are committed to the vision and mission of the Decade. They make significant and sustained efforts to support the Decade by coordinating existing Decade Actions, catalysing new initiatives, leading targeted communications and outreach, and mobilising resources.
Decade Collaborative Centres
Announced as part of the newly endorsed Ocean Decade Actions, the five DCCs will further the multistakeholder and multiscale co-design and co-delivery of ocean action.
Centro de Colaboración del Decenio para el Océano Pacífico Nororiental (DCC-NEPO)
The Northeast Pacific Ocean Basin is an ideal region for a DCC. Within the Northeast Pacific region there are important domains that cross US and Canadian National borders. This region is one of the most productive regions on Earth, hosting rich biodiversity from the coastline, to the open ocean, to the deep sea, and supporting human communities for millennia. There are many active existing networks of research and observing organizations, industries, government entities, and coastal communities that are working to inform sustainable development related to the ocean. In addition, there is increased recognition of the importance of elevating Indigenous and other under-served communities in co-developing and mobilizing ocean knowledge for sustainable development. Improved coordination of these diverse programs and partners is needed to launch new initiatives and support implementation of the Ocean Decade. An active DCC in this region can help support coordination as well identify best practices, principles, and lessons that can be applied in other regions around the globe.
The DCC for the Northeast Pacific Ocean (DCC-NEPO) will be hosted by the Tula Foundation in British Columbia, Canada. It will work across all ten Ocean Decade Challenges in the Northeast Pacific region. In addition to its regional focus that will encompass all Ocean Decade Challenges, the DCC-NEPO will have a particular focus on supporting and mobilizing participation by Indigenous peoples and local communities and the development of Indigenous-led Decade Actions.
Ocean Visions – UN Ocean Decade Collaborative Centre for Ocean-Climate Solutions (DCC-OCS)
Understanding the nexus of the ocean and climate crises and developing ocean-based solutions are critical to the Ocean Decade. The primary focus of the DCC-OCS is on leading and supporting processes to co-design, develop, test, and ultimately deploy scalable, equitable ocean-based solutions to mitigate and reverse the effects of climate change (Challenge 5). To advance this mission, this Collaborative Centre will engage with a global set of stakeholders and institutions to connect those with the capacity for generating new science and engineering knowledge to those with capacity to develop and test innovations and solutions (Challenge 4). Among the system-level challenges targeted by the Ocean Visions – UN DCC-OCS are ocean-based solutions to ameliorating climate change, enhancing food security (Challenge 3), and building the climate resiliency of critical marine ecosystems and coastal communities (Challenges 1 and 2).
The DCC is hosted by a partnership between Ocean Visions, Georgia Tech, and the Georgia Aquarium in the United States. They will coordinate Decade Actions focused on solutions at the ocean-climate nexus across all regions and ocean basins. It will work in close collaboration with other Decade coordination structures focusing on different aspects of the ocean-climate nexus.
Centro de Colaboración del Decenio para el Nexo Océano-Clima y la Coordinación entre los Asociados en la Ejecución del Decenio en la República Popular China (DCC-OCC)
The DCC-OCC will support endorsed and emerging Decade Actions to address Decade Challenge 5 – Enhancing understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to mitigate, adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change across all geographies and at all scales. It will engage in generating new knowledge and solutions for the ocean-climate nexus to mitigate and build resilience against climate change and communicate the information with a wide range of stakeholders. This will be achieved through identifying and filling data and knowledge gaps of ocean-climate relationship; evaluating and screening for the most effective model testbed schemes; coordinating relevant stakeholders nationally and globally; capacity building; sharing and communicating results, best practices, and data products.
The DCC is hosted by First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China, in partnership with the International CLImate VAriability Research Project Office (CLIVAR-ICPO), the China National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS), the China National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC), the China National Satellite Ocean Application Service (NSOAS), and the Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (RTRC-ODC).
Centro de Colaboración para la Predicción Oceánica (DCC-OP)
Due to the cross-cutting nature of ocean modelling and prediction, the DDC-OP will support endorsed and emerging Programmes that address Decade Challenges 2 through 9, across all ocean basins. The Centre will coordinate Decade Actions to enhance collaboration, promote concrete action and avoid duplication of modeling and prediction efforts among the diverse stakeholders that contribute to the Ocean Decade. This work will be done in direct collaboration with the Decade Coordination Unit, the Decade Collaborative Offices for Ocean Observation and Ocean Data Sharing, as well as other DCCs – in particular, the DCC for Coastal Resilience (see below) and relevant National Decade Committees, and Decade Implementing Partners.
The DCC-OP will facilitate the structuring and engagement of the ocean prediction community through a collective framework to be established with partners around a common vision and agenda, standardized methods, mutually reinforcing activities that cut across programmes, silos and value-chain elements, and open, continuous communications. The DCC-OP will act as a coordinating forum to facilitate interactions by providing technical, logistical, and financial support for collaborative actions and to track progress towards agreed goals.
The DCC-OP will also unite Decade and non-Decade programmes and organizations to develop and implement joint training, outreach, and capacity development activities for global and regional engagement.
The DCC is hosted by Mercator Ocean International in France.
Centro de Colaboración del Decenio para la Resiliencia Costera (DCC-CR)
The DCC-CR will support endorsed and emerging Programmes to primarily address Challenge 6 – Increase community resilience to ocean hazards and will be broad, based across a range of disciplines, fully addressing at least six of the ten Decade Challenges, and covering many aspects of the other four.
Thanks to a contribution by the University of Bologna to host the DCC-CR, the Centre will be comprised of physical offices in Italy but will be led by both a Program Committee and International Advisory Board to represent the interests of all community members.
Decenio Socios ejecutores
The three new DIPs will improve youth engagement in the Decade; curate marine databases to support the European marine science community; and enhance capacity development in northern Africa, with a focus on early career ocean professionals to engage them in impactful science.
Herederos de nuestro océano
Heirs to Our Ocean (H2OO) is a US-based charity with a mission to help youth understand the role they can play in creating a healthier, safer world for all. Through capacity developing events, workshops and initiatives, H2OO works with youth from around the world to help them develop their knowledge and skills needed to tackle the challenges facing the world through intersectional solutions.
Through previous work with the US National Decade Committee, H2OO has developed a toolkit and guidelines for implementing Ocean Decade Youth Advisory Councils. These are groups of youth who engage with the Decade at the national level to support the catalyzation of Decade Actions, and other local initiatives contributing to the Decade. As a DIP, H2OO will act as a consulting body for National Decade Committees to use as a resource as they set up their own Youth Advisory Councils.
Additionally, H2OO serves as a mechanism through which to engage a broad audience of youth, amplify the voices of youth in the context of the Decade, and offer capacity development in areas crucial to movement building, such as public speaking training, leadership skills workshops, and providing organizational support for youth summits.
EurOcean
EurOcean supports European marine science and technology advances. They engage in marine science communication and dissemination activities, promote research achievements and initiatives, create opportunities for developing ocean science and technology, and nurture partnerships and collaborations to help their community to make better and more informed decisions.
As a DIP, EurOcean will provide:
- Networking events, conferences, workshops, and webinars with relevant stakeholders in the European marine science arena
- Communication and dissemination of marine science activities to reach not only some of the most influential stakeholders but also the general public in European countries
- Ocean Literacy activities
- Timely and reliable data, information and knowledge through their databases (RID – Research Infrastructures Database; and KG – Knowledge Gate), awareness activities, studies and reports
Many of EurOcean’s activities are already aligned with the Ocean Decade. They will continue this alignment and direct implementation of Ocean Decade activities through a dedicated human resource. Additionally, the EurOcean team will support communications through their extensive network on behalf of the Decade and liaise with the Decade Coordination Unit on a quarterly basis to identify further opportunities.
Egypt’s National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF)
NIOF will provide support in relation to capacity-building, marine scientific research and international cooperation for the development of marine technology, as well as the implementation of the strategic directions identified in the framework of the Decade.
NIOF will:
- Coordinate the planning and implementation of training activities – including, where appropriate, onboard their research vessels (RV/Yarmouk and RV/Salsabil) – in such a way as to stimulate and advance the conduct of marine scientific research by, and for the benefit of, IOCAFRICA Member States
- Offer training initiatives onboard their research vessels for early career scientists from Africa, adjacent islands and Middle East countries
- Encourage and facilitate cooperation with IOCAFRICA Member States in marine scientific and technological development
- Disseminate the results of marine scientific and technological research in easily accessible publications
- Organize conferences, seminars, workshops and symposiums relating to marine scientific research in the North Africa area
Heirs to Our Ocean, EurOcean and NIOF join JPI Oceans and the European Marine Board as DIPs.
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Acerca de Decenio del Océano:
Proclamada en 2017 por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, la Década de las Naciones Unidas de Ciencias Oceánicas para el Desarrollo Sostenible (2021-2030) ('la Decenio del Océano') busca estimular la ciencia y la generación de conocimientos sobre los océanos para revertir el deterioro del estado del sistema oceánico y catalizar nuevas oportunidades para el desarrollo sostenible de este enorme ecosistema marino. La visión de Decenio del Océano es "la ciencia que necesitamos para el océano que queremos". Decenio del Océano proporciona un marco de convocatoria para científicos y partes interesadas de diversos sectores con el fin de desarrollar el conocimiento científico y las asociaciones necesarias para acelerar y aprovechar los avances en las ciencias oceánicas para lograr una mejor comprensión del sistema oceánico y ofrecer soluciones basadas en la ciencia para alcanzar la Agenda 2030. La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas encomendó a la Comisión Oceanográfica Intergubernamental (COI) de la UNESCO la coordinación de los preparativos y la ejecución del Decenio.
Acerca del COI-UNESCO:
La Comisión Oceanográfica Intergubernamental de la UNESCO (COI-UNESCO) promueve la cooperación internacional en ciencias del mar para mejorar la gestión del océano, las costas y los recursos marinos. La COI hace posible que sus 150 Estados Miembros trabajen juntos coordinando programas de desarrollo de capacidades, observaciones y servicios oceánicos, ciencias del mar y alerta contra tsunamis. El trabajo de la COI contribuye a la misión de la UNESCO de promover el avance de la ciencia y sus aplicaciones para desarrollar el conocimiento y la capacidad, claves para el progreso económico y social, base de la paz y el desarrollo sostenible.