Opportunity | 02 September 2020

Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge of our time, and island and coastal communities are among those most severely impacted. But island and coastal communities are also among the most resourceful and creative. With this in mind,...

Programme news | 11 August 2020

Blue Communities held its 3rd Annual Progress Meeting over the course of a week in July. With this year’s coronavirus challenges, the meeting that was originally scheduled to be held in the case study in Hoi An (Vietnam), was reorganised and held...

Programme news | 13 July 2020

The latest Blue Communities newsletter is now available with updates from the  projects during the challenging Coronavirus pandemic

Newsletter article | 10 July 2020

​ By Prof. Mel Austen, Programme Director, University of Plymouth   Welcome to this July 2020 edition of the GCRF Blue Communities Newsletter. As you will read, despite the Covid19 pandemic, researchers from our 10 project partners, often...

Newsletter article | 01 July 2020

By Wan Nur Syazana Wan Mohamad Ariffin, University of Malaya   ​The 3rd year of Blue Communities Programme sees the Malaysian case study team (BC MY) further enhancing its research capacity building activities, through continuous and...

Newsletter article | 19 June 2020

We are delighted to announce the pre-release of "Make a Change Today" , the GCRF Blue Communities song. 

Newsletter article | 18 June 2020

By Dr Quyen Van Nguyen, Hanoi National University of Education   2020 is the year with a great challenge for international projects, COVID-19 pandemic. This affects the whole world and Vietnam has been no exception. 

Newsletter article | 18 June 2020

By Dr Lota A. Creencia, Lea Janine Gajardo and Karen Madarcos, Western Philippines University   Expounding the Blue Communities (BC) Programme not just as a research project but as the communities themselves is a sense the BC Philippines...

Newsletter article | 18 June 2020

By Dr Stefanie Broszeit, Plymouth Marine Laboratory & Data Management Committee Member   Metadata describes your data. It is the who, what, when, where, why and how of your research and helps others find the data they are interested in.

Blog post | 18 June 2020

By Dr Isabel Richter, University of Plymouth   In 2020, Project 12 activities have been intensely (and unsurprisingly) affected by COVID19. Here we explain how we tried to make the best out of a situation in which one activity after the...