SOA Ghana aims to develop a policy dialogue, youth dialogue, position paper and digital campaign for youth and politicians in Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria to galvanize stakeholder support and ensure that the youth’s position on deep-seabed moratorium is unambiguously represented by the Africa group at ISA.

Current Foods (formerly Kuleana) is creating the next generation of seafood with plants and biotechnology. After going through Y-Combinator's S20 batch and raising $6.5M Pre-Series A, Current Foods has products across the country with an initial foodservice focus.

The Phoenix Expedition will be making a journey from France to California in order to document and promote local solutions to regenerate marine ecosystems with a focus on Blue Carbon and CO2 emissions avoidance. Ahead of the voyage, this project will be using social media platforms and partnerships to create educational material to raise awareness around Blue Carbon. Ten percent of all funds received will go towards restoration of coastal habitats with local partners that are visited throughout the journey.

This project aims to: 1) Curate selective marine organisms and illustrated graphics to debunk misconceptions of taxonomy through the art of epoxy resin, 2) prepare information for resin specimens and blocks via QR codes, with video links from experts related to themes of acidification, aquatic invasives, destruction of habitat and pollution, 3) create awareness through advertising and create an educational toolkit and exhibition. The project is expected to help youths engage the fundamental science of taxonomy with conservation and ecology in line with the themes of SOA and SDG 14, and aid experts by working towards establishing conservation priorities of our Malaysian marine biological heritage.

SOA Manabi (Ecuador) Hub will plant and monitor 200 mangroves in the Punta San Clemente Marine Protected Area, working in partnership with the Contamos Contigo Ecuador Foundation to clean and re-establish adequate water flow to the estuary.

Based on the data collected during the International Coastal Cleanup events, land-based solid waste is the biggest contributor to marine litter along the Kenyan coastline. This team's overall goal is to help reduce and promote recycling of marine litter generated on Kenyan beaches for healthy oceans and healthy communities, through implementation of a waste management program through beach and river delta clean ups.

With this grant, mymizu will build and grow a stronger community of refill partners via community building and outreach, enabling tens of thousands of community members (largely Gen Zers and millennials) to kick the plastic habit, further raise awareness of ocean plastics, and step up the fight against single-use plastics in Japan and beyond!

Pari Island is a small island that has been overwhelmed by domestic and international tourism, which has affected the town's supplies of drinking water. However, this island receives ample rainwater, so the goal of this project is to help establish a rainwater harvesting and filtration system on the island to be used by local residents, as well as conduct educational programs for locals tourists on island resource-management.

Calypso Diving conducted a reef restoration project in collaboration with Ocean Gardener Yayasan, a local NGO involved in coral restoration and educational programs about marine ecology and reef conservation in Amed, Bali. SOA Support has helped the program conduct surveys, transplantings, and monitoring of 6 coral nurseries and 100+ corals; and supported a youth education camp "Blue School, Bali" to build ocean awareness amongst local youth in Bali. The classes are on coral conservation and marine life for kids from 5 to 15 years old in the Amed area.