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Ocean Futures 2030 creates meeting points for scientists, diplomats, industry, NGOs, youth and society to discuss sustainable ocean development as a common heritage of humankind. In April 2023 the first OF2030 event took place during One Ocean Week and in March 2024 the first OF2030 policy brief was published. The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is the general backdrop for this ongoing activity.

Ocean Futures 2030 builds on experiences from Ocean Sustainability Bergen (OSB), a virtual ocean research centre at the University of Bergen (2018-2021). The university is SDG14 (Life below water) Hub for United Nations Academic Impact and lead university for SDG14 in the International Association of Universities’ SDG Cluster.

OCEAN FUTURES 2030 EVENT
Peter Haugan, Francoise Gaill and Lise Øvreås in conversation at the Ocean Futures 2030 event at the House of Literature in Bergen on 17 September with audience member shooting photo on mobile.

Raising public ocean literacy awareness

The fifth event in the Ocean Futures 2030 series was co-organised by UiB and France’s embassy in Norway to discuss global ocean awareness across sectors. Watch the recording.

SDG PILOTS CALL
Woman selling small fish in market in Ghana in Western Africa

Small fish research awarded in SDGs call

The SmallFish4Food project by University of Bergen researchers Jeppe Kolding and Ragnhild Overå is one of only 12 projects globally and five Norwegian projects to be awarded with funding through the SDG Pilots Call of the Global Research Council, with funding supplied via the Research Council of...

OCEAN FUTURES 2030

Video recording of satellite event at Ocean Decade Conference

On 9 April 2024 the University of Bergen organised an official satellite event on marine genetic resources, global benefit sharing and ocean science diplomacy at the Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona. Watch a recording of the satellite event.

WORLD OCEAN DAY 2024 – PRESS RELEASE
bubbles going upwards on a body of water

New geopolitics demand new thinking on ocean equity

The rise in ocean temperature in the past year is one of the most urgent threats to global equity and thus to global stability in a new geopolitical landscape. How can science contribute to solutions to this challenge?

OCEAN FUTURES 2030 POLICY BRIEF
Photo of phytoplankton – the foundation of the oceanic food chain.

First policy brief launched in new series

On 21 February 2024 the University of Bergen and partners organized an event on ocean governance at Norway House in Brussels. The discussions at the event and an outcome discussion has now resulted in the first Ocean Futures 2030 Policy Brief.