
Dr Lydia Adeleke, organiser of the Plastic Creativity challenge
Dr. Lydia Adeleke pulled again all straps to organise an engaging programme to celebrate the ocean and honour the UN motto for World Ocean Day 2022 «Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean».
Together with Prof. Fagbenro of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) she enrolled the collaboration of Mundus maris, interested FUTA staff and Aquaworld, reviving a successful alliance from last year.
It started out with a plastic creativity challenge for high school students to turn plastic garbage into a creative object. All entries were to be auditioned on June 6, at the Staff Seconday School.
The response to the announcement was quite good. Lots of students participated in the event that celebrated the winners.
See pictures below.
The student challenge was followed by a webinar on 7 June centered around the UN motto.
Speakers were Prof. O.A. Fagbenro, Dr. M. Lydia Adeleke, and Paul Ayomide Eweola as youth adviser for World Ocean Day.

The Plastic Creativity winners
More action was on the menu for World Ocean Day, 8 June, itself with an early morning Clean-Up Fiesta starting at the FUTA car park.
Combining education, learning, creativity, incentives, practical action and fun is the winning formula or World Ocean Week celebrations in and around the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), powered by Mundus maris and Aquaworld.


Impressive quantities of garbage collected

Celebrating World Ocean Day, a good mix of work and fun
Día Mundial del Océano
2024
- El DMO comienza en el Festival del Medio Ambiente de Bruselas, el 2 de junio de 2024
- Awaken New Depths, celebrando en Akure, Estado de Ondo, Nigeria
- Celebrando el Día Mundial del Océano en Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Concierto por el Día Mundial del Océano en Alcalá de Henares, España
- Mundus maris celebra el Dia Mundial del Océano 2024 con la Cumbre del Océano en Kiel, Alemania
- Juego de roles en Camerún
- Seminario virtual Día Mundial del Océano: Acción catalizadora para nuestro océano y clima: Lagos llama
- El fútbol como herramienta de comunicación para la protección del océano
- World Ocean Day with the Kawabata Yasunari School in Hann, Senegal
- La muestra ‘Ritmos de la Naturaleza’ le da un toque artístico a la Semana Mundial del Océano
- Una vez más: limpieza alrededor del arroyo en Hilden, Alemania
2023
- Disparo inicial para el Día Mundial del Océano en Hilden, Alemania, el 3 de junio de 2023
- Desde Buenos Aires con amor
- Celebrando el Día Mundial del Océano 2023 en Lagos, Nigeria
- Día Mundial del Océano en Kiel, Alemania, con especial atención a la protección del océano
- Pescadores artesanales en Hann, Senegal, celebraciones conjuntos del Día Mundial del Océano
- Accra, Ghana, también celebra
- Las actividades en torno al océano en Braga, Portugal, culminan en el Día Mundial del Océano
- La escuela Grand Batanga celebra en Kribi, Camerún
- Jóvenes de Akure celebrando de nuevo con Mundus maris, Nigeria
- Soccer for World Ocean Day in Senegal
- Concert for the Ocean in Oostende, Belgium, 11 June
- Mundus maris asbl supports 2023 World Ocean Day Event in the Canary Islands, Spain
- The Book of the Marine World – celebrating World Ocean Day
2022
- Día Mundial del’Océano 2022 in Veracruz, México
- Clean-up along creek in Hilden, Germany
- World Ocean Week in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
- Webinar in Lagos for World Ocean Day 2022
- World Ocean Day in Kribi, Cameroon
- From Puerto Piramides, Argentina, to the World
- Beach clean-up by the soccer schools in Hann, Senegal
- VI Webinar World Ocean Day – Mundus maris/University of Belgrano – 2022
- World Ocean Day at the Kawabata Yasunari Primary School in Hann, Senegal
- Soccer tournament in Hann for World Ocean Day 2022
- A concert for peace and the ocean, Louvain, Belgium
- Todos los ojos puestos en la OMC en Hilden, Alemania