Initiative promoted by Fundación Diabetes Cero and Asociación Diabetes Madrid consisting of a virtual race with 17 stops, each associated with one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through an app, participants count their steps and the app shows them content related to the SDG for each goal once they reach it.

The IIM is the organisation selected for the only stage of this initiative in Galicia, in Pontevedra, dedicated to SDG 14, life below water. It will take place from 29 October to 1 November.

The IIM will provide participants with outreach resources aimed at bringing runners closer to the ocean culture promoted by the centre through its Scientific Culture Unit.

Some of these resources include the “Kaleidolabs” audiovisual shorts, promoted in 2014 with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), with the aim of raising awareness of the IIM’s work, the biodiversity of Galician waters and marine activities related to the marine world.

Also included is the documentary “SyngDoc”, promoted in 2017 with the collaboration of FECYT, whose purpose is to explain what syngnathids are, the main curiosities about these little-known species, their vulnerability, derived from their biological and ecological characteristics and their social and spatial organisation, and the need to protect them.

The videos produced last June as part of the “ArelaDeMar” initiative will also be made available to the organisers of the virtual race. In this campaign, promoted for World Oceans Day, the IIM, in coordination with the ICM-CSIC in Barcelona, collaborated with different local artists and researchers who expressed, in the form of small works of art, their wishes for the ocean.

Finally, the occasion will also serve to present the new IIM institutional video, which will premiere during October as part of European Green Week. This video aims to present a current and realistic view of all the work carried out by the Institute to produce, apply and communicate the knowledge that the oceans provide us from a multidisciplinary perspective.