Today, we visited the leaders of the MICROCEAN project, supported by Pure Ocean since 2024, for an experience as immersive as it was scientific 💡

🧠 Their mission: to make the essential role of plankton in climate regulation understandable—a topic that can sometimes feel distant or complex.

But what if we approached it differently… through emotion?

That’s exactly the goal of their experimental event EMOCEAN:

👉 studying the impact of emotional conditioning on the assimilation of ocean-related scientific data.

In other words, do we learn better when we feel?

We dove into a sensory and scientific journey: images, sounds, videos, infographics, hands-on activities… and even a magical moment of marine bioluminescence! ✨

Followed by a questionnaire to share our impressions and contribute to their psychological science study.

👏 Congratulations to Fanny and Pauline, PhD students at the Laboratory of Social Psychology (LPS) and the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), for this inspiring and innovative project.

📅 Want to participate? The EMOCEAN experience is open to the public until October 31 at the CUBE, on the Aix-en-Provence campus.