If it seems obvious that the Ocean is the Future of Humanity, because it is impossible to live with more than eight billion people on land resources that are exhausted earlier and earlier each year, it is logical to consider that the Ocean will be a fantastic provider of new jobs in what is becoming common to call the Blue Economy.

 

In this spirit, the FAMEX 2030 project was born, which became a real 2023-2027 action program by government decision at the end of last July. This program is structured around two priorities: 

 

AREA OF FOCUS 1 - Fishing & Aquaculture for a sustainable food system, to facilitate the training and awareness of the actors on their sites of exercise to the changes of the professional practices induced by the climate change, for a sustainable fishing for the benefit of the consumer. Objective: to adapt and ensure a virtuous exploitation of resources so that they are sustainable.

 

AREA OF FOCUS 2 – Decarbonized marine mobility & Clean ports, to anticipate the skills needed for the transformation (refit) and hybridization of ships in service, while anticipating the implementation of training programs compatible with the use of new propulsion energies. All fleets, without exception, are therefore concerned: large tonnage vessels, pleasure yachts, fishing boats, boaters' units, and even dinghies and drones. The aim is to develop a new generation of vessels that are more economical in terms of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

 

It is also recognized that there can be no skills and new jobs without a real mobilization of scale to promote The Sea and its countless opportunities beyond our coasts and beaches. This will be an opportunity to mobilize high school students, as a priority, on the subject of the Brevet d'Initiation à la Mer (BIMer) created by the Éducation Nationale at the junction of traditional school education and the world of the sea, a bridge between passion and reason, knowledge and practice, professional and amateur, civil and military. It should be noted that the BIMer brings optional points to the French Baccalaureate, just to give it an additional attraction for high school students. It will also be a question on this occasion of strengthening the action of the l’Observatoire interrégional des Métiers de la mer.

 

Thanks to this approach, the OceanoScientific association is progressively developing a real activity of OceanoScientific Academy which advocates a transversal training leading to a diploma, in link with several universities, among which those of Toulon and Nîmes, in close collaboration with the École de l'ADN.

 

The first edition of the MER & MÉTIERS will leave Toulon on Tuesday 21 March 2023 for Monaco (Wednesday 22 March to Sunday 26 March), then Bastia (Monday 27 March to Saturday 1 April), and Nice (Monday 3 April to Saturday 8 April). Leaving the period of school vacations and long weekends in May, the Tour MER & MÉTIERS will start again in Toulon (Sunday 21 May to Saturday 27 May, including the International Day of Biological Diversity on Monday 22 May), La Ciotat (Tuesday 30 May to Saturday 3 June), Marseille (Monday 5 June to Saturday 10 June, including the World Oceans Day on Thursday 8 June), Sète (Monday 12 June to Saturday 17 June), and will end in Cannes (Monday 19 June to Saturday 24 June).

 

On the occasion of each stopover of the Tour MER & MÉTIERS, many professional events will be organized by the members of the FAMEX 2030 consortium, including each time an Forum Innov'Bleu designed and organized by OceanoScientific and its partners. It will bring together innovative project leaders and major players able to effectively contribute to transforming good innovative ideas into future professions of the Blue Economy.

 

During the liaison sailings between the FAMEX 2030 Tour MER & MÉTIERS ports of call, small coastal OceanoScientific Expeditions will be conducted to collect oceanographic data at the Air-Sea interface, with a larger campaign during the April-May break.