18 June 2024 Co-Design for the Ocean Decade: IOC - UNESCO launch new online course
WHAT IS CO-DESIGN?
- Involving all concerned stakeholders
- Engaging all stakeholders throughout all stages of knowledge creation and dissemination
- Building on pre-existing relationships, networks and shared experiences, while remaining open to new voices
WHAT IS UNESCO’S NEW CO-DESIGN COURSE?
Launched by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, the OceanTeacher Global Academy (OTGA) of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, the self-paced online course ‘Co-design for the Ocean Decade’ aims to equip ocean scientists and the broader ocean science community with the skills needed to co-design the science we need for the ocean we want.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The course is a global, beginners’ course aimed at all ocean science stakeholders. It has been developed primarily for existing Decade Actions or for partners who wish to develop future Decade Actions, but it is open to everyone who seeks to learn more about co-design approaches in the context of ocean science in general.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
- Online course
- Free
- Self-paced, suggested schedule of 3 hours per week over 6 weeks
- Quizzes, experts’ insights
- Certificate awarded upon successful completion
WHAT TO EXPECT?
- Introduction to co-design in the context of the Ocean Decade
- Elements and steps in co-design
- What for, where to: Joint vision setting
- With whom and how: Stakeholders
- How to work with each other: Partnership
- How can we create longer impacts: Sustainability