About Marine Education Center
Marine Education
For 20 years, the Marine Education Center has developed the educational activities that are now conducted at the Marine Education Center and naturum Öresund, this is where we accept school classes and is open to the public throughout the year. We want everyone, regardless of background and opportunities – to access knowledge about the ocean and become ocean-aware. Our operations are based in Malmö and are financed by the city of Malmö and through our project assignments.
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Marine Development
In marine development, we run projects with a focus on sustainability and innovation with a focus on new nature-based solutions and climate adaptations and carry out marine surveys. The project results build knowledge and understanding which, among other things, is channelled into activities within marine pedagogy and promotes the development of new concepts and projects. For many years, we have built up a large marine network and we cooperate with other organizations in the marine area both locally, nationally, and internationally. For several years we have had an international collaboration with the IOC/UNESCO regarding the development of the work with Ocean Literacy in connection with the UN Decade for Ocean Science - "the science we need for the Ocean we want".
Our team
Michael Palmgren
Operations Manager
Michael is one of the founders of Marine Education Center. Michael has worked on issues relating to the ocean's conditions since the 1970s. For the past 25 years, he has helped with the various educational tools in order to make the knowledge readily available to all. In addition to educational work, he runs marine development projects as well as conducting international lectures on Ocean Literacy. Michael is an A-certified diver and holds a Deck Officer class 8 certificate.
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Anna Särnblad
Deputy Operations Manager/Marine Biologist Ph.D
Anna has been working at Marine Education Center since 2012 and is Deputy Manager. Anna mainly works with marine development projects related to professional fishing and sustainable food from the sea. She is also engaged in marine consultancy work. Anna has a PhD in Zoo-Ecology at Stockholm University in 2011 with a dissertation on population genetics of bottlenose dolphins in East Africa and is a certified project manager at IHM Business School. Anna holds a Deck Officer class 8 certificate.
Agneta Palmgren
CFO / Business Coordinator and manager of naturum Öresund
Agneta is one of the founders of Marine Education Center and works with the underlying structure of the association. In addition to managing the economy she also manages the business activity coordination. Agneta has the project administrative responsibility in the areas of Marine Development and Marine Education.
Anders Wik
Educator / nature guide in marine education
Anders started working at Marine Education Center in 2016 and is an educator with many years of experience of working with children and adolescents. He has also worked as a research assistant at the international porpoise project SAMBAH - Static Acoustic Surveillance of the Baltic Sea. Anders holds an S30 dive certificate and a Deck Officer class 8 certificate.​
Linn Johansson
Educator / nature guide in marine education
Linn graduated from environmental science at Malmö University the spring of 2018. During her internship at MEC in the fall of 2017, Linn was captured by the ocean and marine issues. She started her employment as a nature guide at the Marine Education Center during the spring of 2018. Linn is particularly interested in sustainability issues related to the marine environment.​
Elinor Hermansson
Educator / nature guide in marine education
​Elinor has long experience of educational work with both adults and children, and in the last three years she has worked as a "swedish as a second language" teacher. She holds a bachelor's degree in gender science and is a folk high school teacher. During the years 2012-2013 she worked with education and sustainable development for Marine Education Center. Elinor has a great interest for the ocean and likes scuba diving, free diving, paddling and winter bathing.​
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Matilda Elofsson
Educator / nature guide in marine education
Matilda is our newest employee and studied environmental science at Malmö University. She did her internship at Marine Education Center and has worked with us during the summer and on weekends. Now we are happy that Matilda is one of our talented marine educators since spring 2024.
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Anna-Majje Wik
Illustrator
Anna-Majje is an illustrator and has since 2016 made the characters, logo and interior illustrations for Marine Education Center. Anna-Majje likes to discover life below the surface through free diving, which is her new favorite hobby.​​
Contact us!
+46 (0)40 631 30 41
Naturum Öresund Ribersborgstigen 4,
216 44 Malmö, Skåne Sweden
hello(at)smkc.se