Future Lives with Oceans and Waters (FLOW), funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme, is a two-year project coordinated by Radboud University. The partners are UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI from Germany, and Volonteurope network, which is the civil society partner in this Horizon project.
The main objectives of FLOW are to co-create actionable, scalable and reflexive stewardship clusters, which are designed on the basis of research, evidence and foresight on human-waters relations, and to connect the young generation with sea and waters. This will empower the youth to directly interact with marine and freshwater stakeholders from the fields of policy, blue economy and innovation and research.
FLOW aims to increase the understanding of the connection that the young generation have with oceans, seas and waters. Moreover, by combining transdisciplinary methods – horizon scanning, ethnographic fieldwork, and experiential futures workshop – in an innovative way, FLOW engages youth in intergenerational just and transdisciplinary research. Bringing young people together in seven different regions across Europe will give us the opportunity to see how young people connect themselves to oceans and waters.