A Sailing Expedition, A Commitment to the Planet

Unu Mondo is a 4 months sailing expedition into the Arctic aimed to gather scientific data and testimonies from local communities to better anticipate climate change and promote concrete actions.

Leaving from Saint-Malo, France it will reach Greenland (2020) then Alaska through the famous Northwest Passage (2022), stopping on the road in the villages of the West coast of Greenland and will culminate in a documentary.

Unu Mondo team is composed of 2 skippers, a handful of scientists and a pinch of audiovisual professionals.

OUR MISSION

In the Arctic, average temperatures have risen twice as fast as anywhere else. This is a real upheaval that has a daily impact on the local populations, fauna and flora.

From France to Greenland (2020), Unu Mondo Expedition sailed away on June 29, 2020 to meet people whose daily lives are affected by climate change.

On board the skippers Tobias and Sophie, as well as scientists and audiovisual professionals. Their goal? Put images and faces on the melting ice, a concept that can feel abstract for us, Europeans. Unu Mondo is an expedition combining human, social and natural sciences, to meet, understand, document and transmit.

MEET — A Population Already Impacted by Climate Change

The Arctic is the part of the world where the impact of climate change is the most visible. For thousands of years, people in these regions have developed a close connection with their environment. This fragile balance is now being disrupted by the melting ice, leading to many changes in social, economic and cultural behavior. Changes that are only just beginning.
UNDERSTAND — Enrich the Knowledge of the Arctic World with Scientific Projects

The Unu Mondo Expedition aims to raise awareness among the general public but also to support scientific research that allows a concrete and measured study of current phenomena.

Many scientists are interested in the impact of climate change on Arctic fauna and flora, which requires traveling to the Arctic. The Unu Mondo Expedition is an opportunity to take advantage of a carbon-neutral means of transportation to carry out their scientific mission.

Our expedition hosts the KATABATA project, a scientific project set up by researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium), which aims to measure for the first time the potential of the katabatic winds in the south of Groenland with the aim of being able to set up large wind farms there. This project, which is anchored in the energy transition, consists of the installation of 3 meteorological stations which will allow, during three years, to model and analyse the power of the winds recorded in the south of the country.
DOCUMENT — With a Documentary Film and Photographic Projects

Since an image is worth a thousand words, the Unu Mondo Expedition takes photographers and videographers on board. Their mission, capture the highlights of the expedition, on land and at sea, so that as many people as possible can follow them and see the impacts of climate change on the Arctic with their own eyes.

The project will culminate in a documentary film as well as various photographic projects.
TRANSMIT — Through Conferences, Educational Content and More!

The Unu Mondo Expedition is also about raising awareness and educating the younger generation about climate change. Convinced that education also involves play and exchange, they intend to set up several educational actions that are both fun and human.