Financing

The ocean does not have a strong enough lobby, neither in politics, nor in society, nor in business. And because we are still at the very beginning in terms of the sustainable use of this largely undiscovered habitat, financing our work is also an extreme challenge. The oceans are a "common heritage of mankind" and in the spirit of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's message, we are happy and grateful for any possible support for our work - for our ocean - for our planet.

We finance our projects and the employees and infrastructure involved mainly through donations and project-related funding. The entire team would like to thank all our supporters, partners and donors who have made this valuable work for the ocean possible in recent years.

Our work would also not be possible without the numerous organizations, companies and individuals who have supported us in terms of content, ideas and, above all, financially and with contributions in kind, especially valuable and sustainable delicacies for our expeditions.

We attach great importance to the neutrality and independence of our work, which is why, for example, we do not consider sponsors or supporters who we know destroy or severely impair natural capital or social capital.

In order to be able to support the valuable work of our research and media ship ALDEBARAN with donations, especially in the early days, we founded a non-profit association that has been collecting donations for our initiatives since 1992. We are very grateful that there are partners who support us in connection with the operation of our research and media ship ALDEBARAN, in particular with products or who remain loyal to us with donations. We would like to express our sincere thanks for this. Further information about the association can be found here.

We are also very pleased that many people have recognized how important it is to help the ocean and have committed to volunteering with us in the long term, so that we can make projects possible for which we have no funding and would otherwise not be able to do them at all.