Programme: ERASMUS +
Project title: Supporting the development of socially-inclusive Blue Challenges in schools in the Mediterranean Sea-basin
Acronym: BlueS_Med
Duration: 01/09/2020 – 31/08/2023
Total budget: € 448.169
ISMAR budget: € 49.807
Web site: https://www.blueschoolsmed.eu/
Summary:
The Erasmus+ project entitled “Supporting the development of socially-inclusive Blue Challenges in schools in the Mediterranean Sea-basin” (BlueS_Med) aims at developing, testing and evaluating innovative approaches to integrate ocean/marine issues and challenges in the curriculum and educational activties of schools in different Mediterranean countries. The project will build on the following principles: (a) co-building – ensuring children/pupils contribute to the co-design of “their” Blue challenge – putting co-responsibility and action at the center of their Blue Challenge; (b) interactive and proactive – making use of all e-tools and social medias to support implementation and peer-to-peer exchanges, while giving the priority to “practical activities” that give a feeling about the ocean and the human-ocean relationships; (c) inclusive – giving special attention to mobilise children from different social groups, to generate gender unbiased questions and to learning about the principle of democracy (discussing, listening, accepting while being still mobilised) when designing and implementing their Blue challenge; (d) sustainable – ensuring the footprint of the project and of the actions proposed under the Blue Challenge of each school is minimised – and that potential environmental and social ancillary benefits are delivered whenever possible and relevant.
Contact person in Ismar: francesca.alvisi@bo.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Acteon Sarl (France)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
- Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti di Scienze Naturali (Italy)
- European Research Institute (Italy)
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece)
- Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)
- Agence Française Pour La Biodiversité (France)
- Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (France)
- Parc National des Calanques (France)
