It’s an early morning in the northern part of Penang Island, Malaysia. The sun is slowly rising over the horizon, casting golden reflections on the still calm sea as our boat hums towards the research station. The wind grazes our faces and the air is filled by the splashes of the salty sea. The green […]

Welcome to Chile! Muchos saludos desde Chile! Team Chile greets you from the southern hemisphere. Let us introduce ourselves: We are Lou & Bianca and we want to talk a bit about how the only southern hemisphere team in GAME 2025 is experiencing autumn and winter in Chile – instead of spring and summer like […]

Croeso i Gymru! Welcome to Wales! Among Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cape Verde, Chile, Finland and Spain, Wales is back as a location for this year’s GAME project! We are Stefanie and Clara and will be conducting our experiments over the summer here at the beautiful northwest coast of Wales. Stefanie is studying biology at […]

Mabuhay from Team Philippines! For the first time in the programme’s history, GAME takes place in the tropical country of – The Philippines! Composed of 7641 islands, the Philippines is an archipelagic country, surrounded by the waters of the South China Sea on its western seaboard and the Pacific Ocean on its eastern seaboard. Literally […]

For those who have never heard of GAME: the acronym stands for Global Approach by Modular Experiments, an internationally oriented research and training program in marine ecology that is in existence for over two decades now. Every year, young researchers from around the world – from Finland to Malaysia, from Japan to Chile – work […]

Editor’s note: This is an addendum to the GAME Project 2024. Unfortunately, Team Finland’s blog was not edited in time last autumn, which is why we are delivering it now. Enjoy! Hei from Åland! We are Kristin (Åbo Akademi University) and Stephany (Kiel University), Team Finland at the northernmost study site of GAME 2024. We […]

Pozdrav iz Pule! Meet Barbara and Catarina, two students to whom the Meeresschule (Marine School) in Pula is their home since April. Barbara (24) from Croatia is studying experimental biology, module physiology and immunobiology at The Faculty of Science in Zagreb. She is interested in implementing human health in the field of sustainable development, but […]

Oi tud drt? – To read this Kriol words here, which say “Hi, everything fine?”, means GAME is back in Cabo Verde. This year, Melanie (Universidade Técnica do Atlântico, Cabo Verde) and Lotte (University of Freiburg, Germany) have the chance to work together as a binational team on a still largely unexplored topic: the influence […]

Olá da Madeira! The island – a green paradise in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – has been home to us for almost three months already. How the time flies! We are Lara and Karo, one of 8 teams that currently conduct experiments all over the world as part of this year’s GAME project. […]

Greetings from Malaysia—Cheow Mei and Max wanted to have a cool Malaysian greeting here, but people here just say “Hi.” Fortunately, English is the second official language in Malaysia, so Max’s Malaysian vocabulary is limited to “Thank you,” “How are you,” and “Hi.“ We, Cheow Mei and Max work together on the GAME project at […]