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Launch of the toolkit in Italy14 October 2020 News Released Ocean Literacy for All Toolkit in Italian on World Oceans Day8 June 2020 Story COVID-19: the ocean, an ally against the virus16 April 2020 News Ocean Literacy for All, a manual for change in a changing blue planet1 December 2017 News Global ocean science education: how we can work together to face the challenges of our oceans1 June 2017
News Summer School on Ecosystem Regeneration & Ocean Literacy – Call for applications open!22 April 2024
News Urgent appeal to action on water scarcity at ‘The water resource: from the Dolomites to the sea – 2023 edition’24 July 2023
Story Ocean&Climate Village docks in Naples for its third edition, with Young Blue Minds in tow27 March 2023
News Dialogue on the Implementation of the New ICG/NEAMTWS 2030 Strategy to Further Advance NEAMTWS2 February 2023
News Towards The Generation Ocean, united to create the ocean we need for the future we want21 October 2020
News Global ocean science education: how we can work together to face the challenges of our oceans1 June 2017