You protect what you love, and you love what you know and understand! That is why it is so crucial to spread knowledge about the Baltic Sea and the many challenges it is facing.
The ocean literacy campaign of HELCOM wants to raise attention to the main working areas of the Baltic Sea Action Plan and give some concrete resources for civil action.
What can we do about the declining state of the sea?
The materials consist of four videos on biodiversity, eutrophication, hazardous substances and litter, and sea-based activities, or shipping.
Biodiversity
Eutrophication
What is ocean literacy?
Ocean literacy is an understanding of the ocean’s influence on you—and your influence on the ocean. The Earth has one big ocean with many features, as all major watersheds on Earth drain to the ocean.
Find out more about the seven Essential Principles of Ocean Literacy here.
Resources
Ocean Literacy self-paced training courses
(Available until end of 2024) – A series of self-paced Ocean Literacy training courses has been developed by IOC-UNESCO, specifically targeting educators, media professionals, architects and urban planners, government officials and civil society and are hosted on IOC-UNESCO’s training platform, OceanTeacher Global Academy. These self-paced courses include lectures, case-studies, video messages from guest speakers, quizzes and online forums, as well as recorded webinars.
