European Maritime Day 2025

21–23 May 2025 | Cork, Ireland

Olga Mashkina

senior researcher

ACTeon

Colmar, France

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Marine policy expert, passionate about ecological transitions, focusing on ocean literacy, blue education, and initiatives that turn awareness into action!

My organisation

ACTeon

ACTeon

Private company

Colmar, France

ACTeon is a French consulting and research company specialised in environmental strategies and policies. The main objective of the team is to foster emerging solutions and innovations aiming at ensuring an effective integration of environmental dimensions in decisions and behaviors. ACTeon has a stong focus on marine environment: from working on coherence and compliance of marine policies (CrossGov Project) and ocean governance (towards IPOS), the team is inolved in work of the Mission Ocean Lighthouses (AA-AGORA and ECO Dally projects), as well as on blue education and skills (BlueLights and Next Blue Generation projects). In addition, since 2020 ACTeon coordinates the EU4Ocean Coalition(launched and funded by DGMARE) which connects diverse organisations, projects and people that contribute to ocean literacy and the sustainable management of the ocean via the work of its three communities: the EU4Ocean Platform, the Youth4Ocean Forum and the Network of European Blue Schools.
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About me

Senior expert with a background in marine policy and economics, in the last 10 years Olga has been also passionate about human-ocean relationships and behavior change with different target groups. She has been actively engaged in ocean literacy and mainstreaming blue education (BlueLights project, coordination of EU4Ocean). She also works with public engagement and capacity buidling, organising trainings for young people on marine policy and coastal resoration (CROSSGOV and A-AAGORA projects).

Skills

  • ocean literacy
  • marine policy
  • environmental economics

Speaker sessions (1)

Friday, 23 May 2025

13:30 - 14:45

Workshop 19 "Maximising support blue skills and ocean literacy"

Format:In-personLocation:Cork City Council - Millenium HallTrack:Workshop - Millenium hall, Cork City Council
  • Coastal communities: resilience, challenges and opportunities

The workshop is organized by EU Sea Basins Assistance Mechanism.