French Science Festival 2024: Oceans of Knowledge

Join the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau for the 5th French Science Festival in Hong Kong! This year, the theme is set to devote to Ocean Science.

In 2024, the French Science Festival will be organized all over the world from the 4th to the 14th of October.

See the detailed programme here

The ocean plays a central role in the future of the Earth and humanity. Exploring and preserving it are major challenges for the 21st century. As a heritage and common good, the ocean is home to extraordinary biodiversity and represents an immense reservoir of unexplored riches. Covering 70% of the planet’s surface, it contains 97% of the water on Earth. France, as the world’s second-largest maritime area behind the United States, is in the front line with its 20,000 km of coastline and a surface area of 10 million km2 spread over all the seas (over 96% of which are in the French overseas territories).

The "Ocean of Knowledge" topic is part of the Year of the Sea. This will run from September 2024 to September 2025, in conjunction with the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans, to be held in Nice in June 2025 under the auspices of the President of the French Republic. Organized jointly by the governments of France and Costa Rica, it follows the first two editions, which took place in New York in June 2017 and in Lisbon in June 2022.

This festival is organized by the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau (cultural and cooperation department) in collaboration with the Hong Kong Science Museum where the inaugural conference and the exhibition will take place.