Dear all, The French NGO Participe Futur (www.participefutur.org) has been offering eco-volunteering opportunities in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea on-board its sailing boat Alcyon for 10 years. Providing its experience and logistics, the NGO takes part in scientific programmes around macro-plastic pollution and cetacean populations monitoring in the Pelagos Sanctuary and adjacent waters. This year, missions will cover the whole summer between July 4 and September 17. If you wish to embark with us, you can find more information here: http://participefutur.org/activites/navigation-et-missions/missions-ete-2015... Participe Futur also gives the opportunity to embark on "Sailing Discovery" missions to discover navigation and the sailing philosophy dear to Bernard Moitessier. In this framework, Participe Futur organises a circum navigation from May 2 to June 27 2015, with four 2-week stages from Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, Balearic Islands and Gibraltar and back to St Mandrier, near Toulon. During the circum, volunteers will have the opportunity to meet and exchange with scientists working on Mediterranean cetaceans as well as collect data on macro-plastics and cetaceans. You will find all the information on the dedicated webpage of the website : http://participefutur.org/activites/navigation-et-missions/voile-et-decouver... No background in sailing or cetacean biology is necessary but volunteers absolutely need to be fluent in French. Volunteers must also be ready to spend a week or two living on a sailing boat with reduced privacy (no individual cabins). Feel free to get in touch using the email address below for more information! Best regards, Jacques Landron info@participefutur.org