ECOP Programme: Empowering Early Career Ocean Professionals Across the World

Abstract

Abstract The Early Career Ocean Professionals Programme (ECOP Programme) has been established to empower ECOPs across the world, strengthen diverse perspectives of new generations of ocean professionals in a collective voice, ensuring that knowledge is transferred between experienced and early career ocean professionals, to promote ocean sustainability for “The Ocean We Want.” The mission of the Programme is to incorporate new ways of thinking into global ocean sustainability and stewardship challenges through diverse engagement. The ECOP Programme will achieve this by empowering ECOPs with meaningful networking and professional development opportunities to engage with each other and with local to global institutions through the framework of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The Programme is at the heart of the UN Ocean Decade, and it was endorsed as a network programme in 2021.