Events for May 19, 2026

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ECOR Environmental Training Program

Hybrid: Online + Optional Field Work

The ECOR Foundation Environmental Internship is a youth-focused program that equips students and early-career researchers with skills in marine ecology, scientific writing, and field research. Through hybrid learning, field sampling, […]

Ocean Futures Exhibition

Futurium Alexanderufer 2, Berlin

The “Ocean Futures” exhibition is dedicated to the body of water that spans the world. With his expansive installation “Balangay Spacecraft,” Filipino artist Leeroy New transforms Futurium's first special exhibition […]

Lost at Sea: Existence amidst Extinction

Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM) Kolkata

Generating ocean knowledge beyond Museum walls, Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM), a Unit of National Council of Science Museums, Ministry of Culture, Government of India conceptualized, designed and developed […]

1º Concurso de Redação da DPHDM “Cultura Oceânica”

Brazil

The competition organized by DPHDM in collaboration with the ALARJ aims to awaken young people’s understanding of the vital importance of the ocean and the Navy’s role in preserving, protecting, […]

OceanSpeak

Online, Gothenburg Natural History Museum, and The Maritime Museum and Aquarium

OceanSpeak combines virtual reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to give people the ability to step in the shoes of a marine scientist exploring the ocean. OceanSpeak is a 20-minute […]

TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series

Online

The TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series creates a space for discussion between experts from academia, policymaking, and NGOs to exchange ideas on ocean governance. The focus is on recent developments in […]

UN Ocean Decade for Sustainable Development

Online

This Decade activity brings together three societies and their scholarly publications: The American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The Oceanography Society […]

Knit for Wildlife: Craft x Conservation

Vegaøyan, Norway

Knit for Wildlife is a new initiative that uses knitting in innovative ways to build wildlife literacy. By translating ecological insights into open-access knitting patterns, the project turns scientific knowledge […]

2026 Ocean Decade Youth MBio SciPop Comp

Online

The "Exploring Marine Life" competition blends science and art to inspire global youth to create works on marine biodiversity. Guided by "openness builds strength, freedom fosters insight," it ignites passion […]

Arctic Plastic

Centro Culturale R. Gritti Ranica (Bergamo)

Arctic Plastic is a documentary photography project by documentary photographer Maurizio Milesi exploring plastic pollution through human presence, care, and action in Arctic environments. Developed through fieldwork with coastal clean-up […]

ReefExplorer 2026

Germany

Coral reefs are more than just diving destinations—they are unique treasures of nature that must be preserved. The free (German-language) ReefExplorer online lecture series by aquatil offers exciting insights into […]

Veivueti Kids Ocean Conference

Fiji

The Veivueti Kids Ocean Conference is a student-led event in Fiji that brings together students aged 8 -16 years to celebrate, learn about, and advocate for the ocean. In the […]

SRT Volunteer Seal Monitoring Training

Online

This free, online volunteer training delivered by Seal Research Trust (SRT) to build capacity in seal monitoring, individual seal photo-identification, citizen science data processing, and responsible marine wildlife observation. The […]

Navigating with Nature A Route Optimisation Study

Online

Navigating with Nature: How Smarter Ship Routing Delivers Emissions Cuts and Biodiversity Gains” is a route optimisation case study by Whale Seeker and True North Marine in collaboration with the […]

Erasmus BIP ‘Marine Environmental Threats’ 2026

University of Pavia

Ever wonder which are the Marine Environmental Threats that jeopardize the future of our oceans?  This Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on Marine Environmental Threats (MET) focuses on the main […]

In The Same Boat beach cleaning season 2026

Arctic and Northern Europe

In The Same Boat is an environmental nonprofit dedicated to protecting the Arctic and Northern Europe from marine litter, working toward a future free from plastic pollution where oceans and […]

Hold Fast X: Ocean Culture & Life Quality

Norway

Hold Fast X strengthens resilience, life quality, and direction among children and young people through ocean culture. Research shows that purpose, mastery, and belonging are key drivers of wellbeing and […]

PROJETO RIZOMA: saberes sobre Corais e Oceano

Balneário Camboriú Santa Catarina

The Rizoma Project is an educational initiative fostering ocean literacy and scientific citizenship among 7th-grade students enrolled at the CAIC Ayrton Senna da Silva school in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, […]

Waves of Action

Germany

Waves of Action, the youth initiative of the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea hosts so-called OceanCamps for young adults aged 16-21. We host OceanCamps in France, on a traditional Polynesian […]

EMBracing the Ocean

Online

EMB’s artist-in-residence programme ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ provides grants for creative individuals to inspire wide reaching societal change for ocean sustainability by expanding societies’ understanding of the ocean’s value, as well […]

Mangrove Photography Awards 2026

Online

The Mangrove Photography Awards advances Ocean literacy by connecting people around the world with one of the most vital yet overlooked coastal ecosystems. Preparing for its 12th year, the Awards […]

OceanLove Innovation Award 2026

The OceanLove Innovation Award, presented by the global non-profit initiative OceanLove returns for its third year. The Award aims to encourage all creative minds worldwide, to submit their ideas for […]

The Plastic Island Inside Us

Trinidade Island, Brazil

The Plastic Island Inside Us is a science-based documentary that uses Brazil’s remote Trindade Island as a symbolic starting point to explore the global scale of plastic pollution. Expanding across […]

Changing Ocean Immersive Experience

Bergen, Norway

The Changing Ocean Immersive Experience offers a “walk on the seabed”—a large-scale, multi-sensory journey that translates cutting-edge marine research into feeling and understanding. Visitors explore habitats few ever see, hear […]

Under the Sea Virtual Art Exhibition (2026-2027)

Online

Moku proudly presents the 3rd Annual Exhibition: Under the Sea!  With 22+ Artists from 9+ countries coming together to share the beauty of our Ocean through art. See the Exhibition here!  This […]

OceanArt: Science to Art (2026)

Colégio Nossa Senhora da Graça Vila Nova de Milfontes

This is the 2nd edition of the collective exhibition “OceanArt: Science to Art”. It all began in 2024 with a session held by scientists, “Inform to Inspire”, where the problems […]

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