United Nations Ocean Conference 2025: Nausicaá alongside the younger generation

Following a call for applications from young people aged 18 to 30 in the spring of 2024, Nausicaá has launched the "Citizen of the Ocean" global coalition of organisations serving young people, bringing together more than 200 men and women committed to preserving the Ocean who will represent the voice of their generation at the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Ocean, to be held in Nice in June 2025.

Since autumn 2024, these men and women, activists, young scientists, artists, educators and sportsmen and women from 69 countries around the world have been taking part at regular intervals in themed online workshops on subjects as vital to ocean preservation as climate change, the high seas and deep seabed, marine biodiversity, pollution and the blue economy.

At the end of each workshop, the young people put forward their priorities, their thoughts and the solutions they are thinking of implementing.

In March, a delegation of around sixty young people will come to Nausicaá to finalise the results of these workshops. They will also be accompanied and prepared to present a plea and concrete solutions for the oceans to the international decision-makers who will be meeting in Nice.  

This new stage in the creation of Generation Ocean reflects Nausicaá's ambition "to support these young people so that they can play an active part in the major international discussions to come on the preservation of the oceans", as Christophe Sirugue, Nausicaá's Managing Director, points out.

Nausicaá is co-funded by the European Union's Erasmus + programme, and the Nausicaá endowment fund is helping to organise the youth consultation by funding the young people's visit to Nausicaá to finalise the results of the workshops.

The initiative is supported by the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries as part of the European Youth4Ocean forum.

The Office Français pour la Biodiversité (French Office for Biodiversity) is supporting this project as part of its efforts to mobilise civil society around biodiversity issues, including on the high seas.