Two children on a sailboat. A girl holds a red rope, a boy looks through binoculars as an accessory. blue sky. Two children wear life vests and use binoculars as accessories on a sailboat under a blue sky.

DEUTSCHE MEERESSTIFTUNG

FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION

"OUR MISSION IS TO GIVE A VOICE TO THE THREAT TO THE WORLD'S OCEANS AND TO HIGHLIGHT ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS."

DEUTSCHE MEERESSTIFTUNG
Boy with blue glasses and yellow cap and woman with blue scarf and transparent container on a boat. Accessories.

WHO IS THE GERMAN OCEAN FOUNDATION

The German Ocean Foundation is committed, together with partners from business, politics, research, science and society, to preserving the ocean habitat for the benefit of future generations.
To this end, they initiate a variety of projects.

A young woman looks through a microscope, an accessory for scientific studies.

With the media and research vessel ALDEBARAN, they undertake research expeditions on topics such as coral die-off or plastics in water bodies. With their marine competition, they have been motivating young scientific talent to achieve top performance for our oceans for 17 years and also create educational materials for all age groups on all kinds of marine topics.

Furthermore, they develop measuring devices and methods to track down plastic waste and banish it from our oceans. Together with a large number of partners, they are involved in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, for example through a permanent exhibition on the museum ship Cap San Diego in Hamburg or the Ocean Festival in Berlin.