Conferences

The Ocean Forum, as part of the Love Your Ocean initiative, will focus on the seven goals of the UN Ocean Decade, proclaimed by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The aim of the Ocean Forum is to create more awareness and to link the commitment, actions and activities of the speakers to the Ocean Decade.

The Ocean Forum consists of short, exciting presentations and serves to sensitize the audience to the pressing concerns of our oceans and to encourage concrete measures to promote marine protection. 

The individual conferences focus on the 7 goals of the Ocean Decade.

Three online conferences will be held each year, providing a platform for lively discussions and a creative exchange of ideas. The fourth conference and highlight will be the Ocean Forum at boot Düsseldorf.

Representatives from science, business, politics and society have the unique opportunity here to deal with the urgent issue of marine protection and to develop interdisciplinary approaches.

Started as a national student event under the auspices of the German Society for Marine Research (DGM), YOUMARES has developed over the years into a worldwide network and international meeting of young marine researchers and experts.

On the initiative of the Lübeck-based Dräger Foundation , the most renowned marine researchers from Europe and the USA launched a series of marine conferences in Hamburg in June 2011 to protect the oceans more effectively. The conference series was continued in New York in 2012 and concluded with a final conference in Lisbon in 2013. The aim of the "Sustainable Oceans: Reconciling Economic Use and Protection" series was to integrate the latest scientific findings more quickly and directly into political action. Around 70 scientists and lawyers discussed the value of the oceans and the environmentally sound use of their vast energy resources.