SOA Romania and NGO Mare Nostrum will use a sailing yacht to collect data regarding cetaceans (a bioindicator) and marine debris/litter (a pressure indicator) in Romanian coastal waters. They plan to share their results at local and national levels in order to inform national authorities and civil initiatives working towards coastal management, conservation, and more.

This project is used to highlight the traditional conservation methods of PNG. We aim to interview village elders from two villages and conduct awareness programs on upcycling thrash in the capital. After the interviews, we aim to run a trail of 3 months to a year to see how effective these traditional methods are.

This project, affiliated with SOA Chile, and led by 3 project leaders from different Latin American countries, seeks to create an interactive ebook for children and youth. The book will cover the topics learned in SOA's La Academia in an accessible way for the target audience. The ultimate goal is to change the way in which youth gain knowledge about the ocean as an ecosystem and that they understand the impact that humans have on this ecosystem.

The SOA Sri Lanka Hub used this grant to launch a coral nursery in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. After setting up the coral nursery, they set up an artificial coral reef with the partnership of Shangrila – Hotel, Hambanthota, Sri Lanka. After establishing the artificial coral reef, they aim to conduct further research involving policy makers in Sri Lanka to establish a marine protected area in the southern coastal belt. The grant also will be used to establish a school curriculum in Sri Lanka on ocean literacy and education.

This group hosted an ocean and waste literacy summit, the Lampung Youth Marine Debris Summit 2.0, with the theme “Youth and Debris, to Creative Eco-Economy”. The goal of the summit was to educate and empower Lampung youths to find a solution to marine debris through “creative economy.”

This project teaches local youth in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to be guardians of their ecosystem. In July 2020, with the help of 25 youth volunteers, they deployed 21 artificial reef units off the coast of Fisherman Island, Port Moresby. These volunteers will continue to monitor the growth, species abundance, diversity, and overall biomass on each reef. All survey methods will involve the collection of both still photos and video for post-field analysis and use for informational, outreach, and promotional materials.

Seangle Movement is a Paliu-local youth movement that aims to combat plastic pollution. They do this through their Waste Education House program, which gives youth art education, recycling/upcycling education, and English language education to cohorts of 30 elementary school students per year. They also have a waste collection point, and the funds from the sale of recycled materials go toward continued educational programming.

Soonlution is a startup founded by a group of Hong Kong University students working to modernize the way shellfish are farmed by creating a prototype that allows for more sophisticated buoyancy controls, and increasing the platform’s resilience and adaptability to typhoons—which are increasing in frequency and strength due to climate change.

The Dive into Marine Science program will educate 150 youths (75 university and 75 high school students) on ocean literacy and advocacy to build the knowledge and understanding of aquatic ecosystems in The Gambia. The activities will include environmental and biodiversity data collection and interpretation along the Tanbi Wetland Complex (TWC) and Bijilo Beach, using both laboratory and field equipment.