Sea for Society Toolkit

Towards the Blue Society

Sea for Society is a European project which aim has been to ask European citizens and stakeholders about their expectations and what we can do better to implement a sustainable and fair management of the Ocean resources, and make them collaborate together to create a Blue Society.

The Sea for Society project partners have also organised some original mobilization activities, after consulting and talking to citizens and stakeholders from all over Europe. The main aim of all mobilisation has been to enrich, to illustrate and to implement the concept of Blue Society.

Several of the Sea for Society project partners are science centres, museums and aquaria. Their aim has been and will still be in the future to engage as many people as possible to the importance the Blue Society approach, and act all together for a better future. If you are a science centre, or you organize science festival or science communication activities in general, we hope you will be interested in having a look at the creative mobilization activities that Sea for Society has already tested in their countries.

Below you can find a description of all the tools that can be used for mobilisation, available in various languages and adaptable to various scenarios.

There are two types of tools available: some of them were created to reach people from our five target groups, which are citizens, youth, business sector, researchers and decision-makers, and other tools aim to involve more stakeholders in the Sea for Society project. Please feel free to use them or to adapt them to your local activities!

Each tool can be used individually, but they can also be combined to reinforce their impact.

If you use any of those materials in the future, we would be very happy to know about your contribution to Blue Society! Please write us at seaforsociety@nausicaa.fr

Resources

For museum staff: A user’s guide of the mobilisation tools

If you want to familiarize with SFS tools, we suggest you read this document first. It contains a description of all type of activities developed by project partners and provides detailed information on the materials available.

Get your visitors to sign the Citizen Promise

Sign this document to commit to “…uphold the Blue Society and respect its values to the best of my ability in my professional and personal capacities”

If you are a stakeholder working in the field of oceans and marine resources, you can sign a more elaborated version of the Commitment.

A giant PDF version of the Citizen Promise is also available, along with a Giant Charter, if you need to print them in large format and get your visitors to sign it when the pass by.