Frank Schweikert

Dipl.-Biol.

Frank Schweikert is a biologist and marine researcher, journalist, environmental activist, and entrepreneur. He has a superior international network of foundations and donors, to science, and civil society, as well as to politics and business.

As the initiator of the research and media ship Aldebaran, he is the owner of the most famous private maritime research ship in Europe. Frank is also the founder of the annual Hamburg Climate Week, which uses numerous events to draw attention to the urgency, feasibility, and long-term cost-effectiveness of climate protection measures. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, by this, he created the largest climate protection communication event in Europe with a high political signal effect. The Hamburg Climate Week was recognized by the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development as a worldwide education initiative.

Supported by Messe Düsseldorf and the German Water Sports Industry Association (Bundesverband Wassersportwirtschaft), he has been curating the “love your ocean” sustainability initiative at the “boot Düsseldorf” trade fair together with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation under the umbrella of the German Ocean Foundation since 2016. He is the founder and managing director of GlobalGreen InnoTech GmbH and, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, heads two networks of industry and research for the detection and elimination of plastics from water bodies. In 2021, it initiates an alliance to support the “UN Decade of Ocean Exploration for Sustainable Development.”