Our project developed along four main axes: Awareness, Night, Schools, and Impact, coordinated by Management activities.
**First Year:**
**Awareness:**
- Ran online publicity campaigns (Instagram, Twitter), local radios, and TV channels.
- Created a project website (oceannight.eu) with over 10,000 visits in five months.
- Organized online and in-person activities to promote ocean literacy, science's societal role, and the EU's science funding.
- Created information panels on the project's eight themes, forming an “Ocean Travelling Exhibition,” also downloadable on the website.
**Night:**
- Organized Ocean Night activities in five Spanish coastal locations, from the Balearic Islands to Galicia, with over 4,000 participants.
**Schools:**
- Contacted local schools to promote participation in educational activities within the Ocean Night project.
- Initial list of 47 schools; conducted 12 activities in the 2021-2022 academic year and 61 more by April 2023.
- Involved over 3,800 pupils (ages 3 to 19) in activities focusing on biodiversity, trophic levels, plankton, benthos, phytoplankton diversity, wave dynamics, and scientific exploration tools.
- Workshops covered scientific methods and discussed oceans' societal roles and environmental challenges.
- Promoted science as a rewarding profession with gender-balanced visits.
**Impact:**
- Created impact assessment tools and analyzed outcomes for the 2022 Researchers Night.
- Participants showed high ocean literacy but were critical of policies and called for more R&I investment.
- Older participants viewed science and technology more positively.
- Education and personality influenced pro-environmental awareness.
**Second Year:**
**Awareness:**
- Continued social media campaigns, participated in radio (IB3, Nova Radio Lloret) and TV (La1 Galicia) events.
- Organized events like EXPO at the University of the Balearic Islands, Virtual Reality activity for the 2023 Day of the Oceans.
- Improved Biodiversity Challenge website and organized a visit to the 2023 ASLO international conference poster session.
**Night:**
- Hosted events in five locations (Palma, Blanes, Barcelona, Cadiz, Madrid) reaching about 2,300 people.
- Created an ocean-inspired Spotify playlist (“Oceanica”) with help from the general public.
**Schools:**
- Reached 62 schools and over 2,600 pupils with activities promoting gender balance, scientific thinking, and science careers.
- Developed online and material resources for schools, including a Breakout Room game and workshops on diatoms, buoyancy, and ocean acidification.
- Conducted a two-month “Science and Art” activity with INS Euclides (Barcelona), blending art and science.
- Organized the “Ocean Odyssey Challenge” school competition, awarding three schools for activity proposals.
**Impact:**
- Continued using feedback forms to gather data on activities, revealing significant insights into ocean literacy and policy perceptions.
- Highlighted the internet as the primary information source, dissatisfaction with marine policies, and the need for more R&I investment.
- Noted disparities in ocean literacy among different groups, with secondary school students showing lower receptiveness and willingness for behavioral changes.
- Events and communication activities effectively increased interest in ocean topics among participants.
