As part of our goals to expose our research to the community, we have teamed up with an environmental/marine NGO – EcoOcean that has an on-going marine education component. This past year (2024) we engaged more than 1,000 middle and high-school students in a unique opportunity to join us on our research expedition M197 in the Mediterranean Sea by an interactive live broadcast of the cruise from Cyprus to Sicily via the "The Sailing Classroom". Here we provided an opportunity for classrooms across Israel to join the scientific and technical teams aboard the RV METEOR cruise to learn what it is like to live and work on an oceanographic research vessel. Our scientific and technical teams from Germany, Israel, and Cyprus showed the students different working methods, technologies, applications, and daily life experiences on a research ship at sea. The expedition tracks current and historical changes in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin during the climate crisis era. The Sailing Class was a successful pilot, which exposed our project to nearly 1,000 students, and it is planned to be held again during our next research cruise scheduled for spring 2026. As the participating students were from Israel, the activity and following broadcast on the “sailing class” on local TV were in Hebrew.

In Germany the documentary "Hitzestress im Mittelmeer" came out on German TV that included coverage of the METEOR expedition. The programme is called "Leschs Kosmos" and typically has ca. 2 Million viewers and is broadcast on ZDF, which is a main German TV channel.

The initiative also emphasizes stakeholder engagement and co-design, collaborating with organizations such as the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) scientists to ensure real-world applicability of research outcomes.