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Strategy & Stoke
Our Blue experiment - World Ocean Day for Schools 2024
This year we collaborated with Dr Pamela Buchan, Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, to run a global experiment to capture data around marine identity, marine citizenship & connection to the ocean.
We’re exploring what it means to be a Good Blue Human - focusing on three main themes - Being, doing & connecting.
Informed by our reflections from last year we recognised the importance of leaning into the tools & frameworks that we’ve dedicated so much time and energy to create. The ‘Our Blue’ platform, launched in 2022 has supported meaningful engagement and local impact for our global community of educators.
Over the last two years, we’ve built an incredible network of schools and helped connect them to their local blue spaces. At times it’s felt as if we were sitting on a metaphorical goldmine of local ecological knowledge and nature connection seen through the lens of primary school children. But until this year. we’ve not found a way to harness these incredible stories.
Our aim for 2024 was to begin that journey. World Ocean Day for Schools was founded by the We are Ocean Collective and so we looked back into the collective to see who could help us.