embracing the ocean

The European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists/groups of artists for the 2025 – 2026 edition of the ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ 12-month artist-in-residence programme.

Entering the fifth year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the need to connect people to Oceans is more important than ever. The EMBracing the Ocean programme provides grants for creative individuals/groups from a wide-range of disciplines to engage in a two-way co-creation of artwork in collaboration with Ocean scientists. The aims of the programme are to 1) raise societal awareness of and embrace connection to the Ocean, 2) inspire positive behaviour towards sustainability, and 3) contribute new insight and/or perspectives to science.