The ResponSEAble project is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program and has 15 partners from around the European Union.
This diverse group has been trying to figure out how to connect people to their seas and to help them better understand the complex human-ocean relationship. The reason is simple: if people have better knowledge they will make responsible decisions – in other words, they will become “ocean literate”. But who needs to know what? What are the target audiences? What kind of information is needed? What are the best channels or methods to transmit information to these audiences? How do we encourage people to become more knowledgeable, to make responsible decisions and change their behavior? And why, sometimes, don’t we act even if we have the right information? The project has developed and is testing the effectiveness of several innovative “ocean literacy tools” for different audiences .