Great timing to do this — anchoring the alignment in who you’re working with makes the Mission fit feel concrete rather than rhetorical. Below is a revised alignment explanation that weaves in the partner organisations shown in your image and positions them clearly within the EU Mission Ocean and Waters logic. It’s written so you can lift sections directly into an application.
Reverberations aligns with the EU Mission Ocean and Waters by embedding artistic research within existing scientific, cultural, and community infrastructures in the Turku Archipelago, ensuring that public engagement, biodiversity awareness, and pollution literacy are grounded in active research contexts rather than operating in isolation.
(EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030)
The project is developed in close dialogue with marine and environmental research institutions working directly on coastal biodiversity in the Baltic Sea region. Collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku) and the Tvärminne Zoological Station (University of Helsinki) situates the project within long-term ecological monitoring, species research, and field-based marine science. These institutions provide both scientific guidance and contextual grounding for identifying relevant species, locations, and ecological processes within the archipelago.
By translating site-specific research, field recordings, and ecological data into accessible audiovisual artworks, Reverberations supports the Biodiversity Strategy’s emphasis on reversing ecosystem degradation through increased societal awareness and engagement. Rather than documenting ecosystems as static entities, the project foregrounds relational and interspecies perspectives—helping audiences understand biodiversity as a living network of interactions that includes human presence.
Cultural partners such as CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, Jokistudio (Tehdas Teatteri), and Titanik Gallery provide platforms for presenting this research-driven artistic work locally, ensuring that biodiversity knowledge circulates within the communities most directly connected to these environments.
(EU Action Plan Towards Zero Pollution)
The Zero Pollution Action Plan highlights the need to better understand, monitor, and communicate the impacts of pollution across air, water, and soil. Reverberations contributes to this objective by combining acoustic field recordings with environmental datasets—such as water quality, particulate presence, temperature, and ongoing research outputs—to explore how pollution and human activity manifest within sound and vibration.
Scientific collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science (Åbo Akademi University) strengthens this approach by linking artistic interpretation to current research on marine pressures, human–environment interactions, and sustainability transitions. By rendering pollution not only as abstract data but as perceptible, experiential phenomena, the project supports the Mission’s emphasis on prevention through understanding and behaviour change.
Community participation—through listening walks, open calls for recordings, and public talks—further reinforces the Zero Pollution agenda by fostering shared responsibility and local pollution literacy. Participants are invited not only to observe impacts, but to reflect on how everyday actions register within sensitive ecosystems.
By working across research institutes, universities, cultural organisations, and local communities, Reverberations exemplifies the EU Mission Ocean and Waters’ integrated model—linking research and innovation, citizen engagement, and cultural transformation. The project does not produce policy recommendations directly, but contributes to the social and cultural conditions necessary for biodiversity restoration and pollution prevention to succeed.
If you want, next steps could be:
- a tight 150–200 word “Impact & Alignment” version
- a partner-by-partner mapping table (Partner → Role → Mission Objective)
- or a call-specific rewrite that mirrors Horizon Europe / Mission Ocean language almost verbatim