SOA YPAC will conduct a community survey and policy brief about deep seabed mining as well as a roundtable discussion with high-level leaders to share their findings. They aim to use UNOC as a platform to share their findings, and will champion scientists, businesses, organizations, and communities who support the moratorium or practice a circular economy

Led by organizational founder Steph Fine Sasse (33), The Plenary inspires students to become scientists through their “I am a Scientist” program, which highlights the life of an ocean-focused scientist by developing curricula and classroom materials that are disseminated within their network of 250 educators and 25,000 middle and high school students.

Moving Towards Zero is a global campaign through the Go Zero Waste app that promotes sustainable actions and local zero-waste businesses through maps and challenges that earn participants points as they reduce their waste. The campaigns which will be launched in Spain, the US, and Canada, will be co-created with companies and governments and in close collaboration with SOA.

Mamuju Eco-Z Camp and the Pandemic Underwater Festival are efforts to increase public awareness (especially generation Z) about waste management and the environment. Mamuju Eco-Z Camp is a 3 day program for selected students in Mamuju and educates 35 high school students on project leadership and encourages them to start their own environmental campaign in their own schools.

Blue School Bali is an informal educational program in Amed, Bali. The free of charge school provides lessons on environmental and ocean awareness to local children ages 7 to 15. They aim to educate 20 students over the term of the grant through classroom education and reef snorkeling excursions.

The city of Paraty, an important tourist spot in Brazil, has situations of high marine environment degradation, including overfishing, excessive trawling, bay pollution (lack of basic sanitation), marine environment destruction and overhunting of protected species in protected areas. This project seeks to educate community youth on the impacts of anthropogenic actions and also present sustainable solutions that can replace predatory activities and increase the fishing stock of the region through respect for protected areas.

This project seeks to solve one of the most important problems in the ocean: the over-exploitation of fish populations for the production of animal feed. We seek to solve this through the use of undervalued resources such as (insects, microalgae, and undervalued native plants) for the production of fish pellets for aquaculture. We work together with the Integral Cooperative of Mayan-indigenous peasants in Quixaya, Guatemala, providing them with a tool that will help them achieve economic sustainability.

To promote and raise awareness about a municipal ordinance regulating single-use plastics, Save Philippines Seas and Plastic Battle will build a mobile educational display targeting market-goers and vendors in Tapaz, Capiz. The display will serve as both a food cart an "information booth" that will give out reusable bags and information to those in the market over the course of 2 months.

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