MARRES To The World

Students and friends develop the "MARRES to the World" outreach program with initiatives to promote ocean literacy and raise people awareness on marine issues like overfishing, pollution and climate change. We develop board and digital games, comic books accompanied by educational material and events of ocean literacy and citizen science.

Contact us if you want to join the initiative! msc-marres@univ-cotedazur.fr
 
 

Our games

The current MSc MARRES students and their predecessors are developing platform and online games to discover the sea and related issues like MARREX: The Marine Explorer (in French: l'Explorateur des Mers), board game with more than 200 questions where children and adults can play together to discover the ocean and the related issues, and the Who lives Here? (in French: Qui vi Où), to better understand the different coastal ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea and the adaptation of marine organisms. These games are used in classes or public events every year, especially since 2023.

>> Learn more about our games

  

Naïa: the Voice of the Ocean

We're using comic books and educational materials to engage a new audience with ocean issues. "Naïa's Journey" follows her exciting mission to balance human activities with ocean health. Throughout her travels, she meets inspiring people and learns important lessons, encouraging young readers to care for the environment.

In her first adventure "Panic at Pelagos", Naia finds herself in a small French port, at the heart of the Pelagos Sanctuary, a dolphin is found dead on a beach, entangled in barbed wire. With her friend Octave, a marine biologist, they attempt to solve the mystery of this tragedy in an area designated for the conservation of cetaceans.

Our students develop accompanying educational materials such as video podcasts, outreach infographics, and interactive quizzes. Emma and Nikita are at the forefront of this initiative, interviewing ocean experts to compare the scientific and socio-economic aspects of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and overfishing in France and Costa Rica, the two countries organizing the next UN Ocean Conference in Nice in 2025.

>> Learn more about our Naïa's world and our educational material

 

Our podcasts

Involved in engaging the public on socio-environmental issues related to the ocean, our students develop podcasts to communicate to the general public certain elements that they may have learnt, for example, in the classroom or in the scientific literature. The format is to approach a topic from two parallel axes, providing a dual view of an issue or problem.

>> Learn more about our podcasts (soon)

     

Our outreach events

Whether as part of the "Fête de la Science" in France, "Monaco Ocean Week" in Monaco, meetings with schools and high schools in France and abroad, or conferences for different audiences, our students and teachers go out to make the public discover the ocean, better protect it, and highlight the links between science and society.

>> Learn more about our events 

 
 

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