Lead institution:
Ocean Decade Informal Working Group for Early Career Ocean Professionals – Russian Federation
The ECOP programme will achieve this by empowering ECOPs with meaningful networking and professional development opportunities to engage with each other and with local to global institutions through the framework of the UN Ocean Decade.
The vision of the ECOP Programme is to elevate and strengthen the diverse perspectives of new generations of ocean professionals in a collective voice, ensuring that knowledge is transferred between experienced and early-career ocean professionals, to promote ocean sustainability for “The Ocean We Want”.
Start Date: 01/01/2021
End Date: 31/12/2030
This Programme hosts the following Ocean Decade Projects:
Training-through-Research (Floating University)
Southeast Asian Ocean Professionals Program
PlaSTic On beaches: 3D-distRibution and weathering
Devising Early-Career Capacity Development-IndOcn (DECCaD-IO)
Lead Contact: Evgeniia Kostianaia (e.kostianaia@unesco.org)
Website: ECOP Programme website
