Education was at the forefront of BLOOM Association's early missions.

FIELD PROJECT

The very first project that BLOOM Association ever created was a marine-study program called “Générations Océans”, organized with teachers from a high school in France.

The program, which continues to date, focuses on studying the impact of pollution on marine habitats by monitoring two zones with different levels of human impact. This enables children to experience firsthand the concept of “shifting baselines”, or in other words, the collective amnesia that paralyses our societies and lies at the root of dysfunctional management plans. The program won the second prize for ‘Best Scientific Communication’ at the National High School Scientific Congress, Exposcience, in Poitiers, 2006.

TEACHER TRAINING & CONTENT SHARING

Since 2006, the book and the exhibition The Deep have been used as educational platforms to reach the public.
Claire Nouvian has given guided tours of the exhibition in Paris and in Hong Kong to important policy makers and economical agents. She has also organised programs to inform secondary school biology teachers about life in the deep sea, deep-sea bottom trawling and other threats looming over marine biodiversity, in cooperation with the Natural History Museum and the French Ministry of Education.

EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS & GAMES
BLOOM has also developed the following educational material and games for children and adults:

EUROPE

- An educational leaflet and game for the young public with the kids' week-end supplement of the national daily newspaper Libération in France – distributed to 21,000 children
- For the 2008 Paris Montagne Science Festival for children at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, BLOOM worked with the artist Renaud Chabrier to produce an interactive game to introduce children to the notion of ecosystems by allowing exploration of the water column and of the seafloor.

ASIA

- An educational booklet for school students with environmental pages on marine issues (28 pages) funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and distributed to 60 000 children in Hong Kong
- The marine pages of the guide Going Green in Hong Kong by Catherine Touzard, which was published in January 2009

AFRICA

- A marine educational manual for children on the deep sea and marine conservation (32 pages) distributed to 500 children in Angola
- A radio game with a deep-sea quiz in Angola
- An educational brochure for adults (24 pages) distributed to 2000 people in Angola.