Our Rename

For the past seven years, the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition has grown from a small group of partners developing a national ocean literacy strategy into a collaborative centre working alongside hundreds of organizations, communities, and leaders across Canada and beyond.

Our new name, Centre for Ocean Literacy Collaboration, reflects who we’ve become – a living lab for high impact public ocean engagement.

A living lab is a space of study, mutual learning, and iteration. It is research-led, participatory-driven, and ground-truthed in experience. It is dynamic and responsive. Together with partners, we generate ideas and theories to better understand how people think, feel, and act toward the ocean. We apply and refine insights within community spaces. We then share and amplify key insights with broader networks of ocean actors to accelerate high impact public ocean engagement.