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Mar de Fondo

City
Palma de Mallorca
Country
Spain
Stage of project
Stage 4: Growth
Sea basin regions
Mediterranean Sea
Topics
Other
Healthy and clean ocean
Topics - other
Reconnecting and building the relation between humans and the oceans.
Categories
Research related to solve marine and societal challenges
Ocean conservation
Community engagement - work with local communities to solve local marine and social challenges and with high social acceptance potential
Business and innovation (creation, process, strategy, product, service, etc.) related to sustainable use of marine resources
Description

Mar de Fondo is a non-profit organization from the island of Mallorca that is dedicated to raise awareness of the human impact on earth by bringing people closer to the marine environment through sports activities, based on three pillars: health, sport and marine conservation.To achieve this goal we create experiences, educational programs and events that involve environmental awareness and sports, transmitting an active, healthy and environmentally conscious lifestyle, so that they appreciate themselves and the environment in which they live. We also are working on the development of sustainable transitions for ports and marinas of Mallorca, based on improving the cultural, technical and social aspects.1. Educational Programs: From School to SEA (September-June), Puerto Portals Sailing School (June-September) and MDF & Seabin Project (anytime of the year). Teaching kids the importance of marine conservation and improving their skills in the marine environment through the practice of water sports.2. Sports and marine conservation experiences, integrated with information of different marine conservation issues in collaboration with island NGO’s. (All year)3. II editionof ourPaddle Out,to protect the marine environment of our island. This time we will focus on the historical problems we have on the "Bahía de Pollensa” specially of the illegal anchoring and uncontrolled dumping into the sea and more events...4. Sustainable Transition of Ports in Mallorca. (All year)