SHORE: Empower Students As The Agents of Change

SHORE will be focusing on engaging & mobilizing students, teachers, and schools for implementing the Mission Ocean objectives in the pursuit of increasing ocean literacy with the help of activities & cooperation projects. SHORE will last 36 months and cover five different regional areas (Baltic, Black, Mediterranean Sea, Danube & Rhine River Area) with its 14 partner consortium. Formation of the Country Hub system, which will offer guidance for the educators and schools in their regional area, to learn about Blue Curricula, develop and implement their projects and ensure open schooling inclusion in the education strategy. With three open call periods, up to 10.000 euro grants will be provided to each successful school for the implementation of their blue projects and to take part in the Find the Blue Campaign. It is aimed to at least fund 100 schools, to empower them to co-developing and implementing their blue projects. SHORE will not only provide grants for schools during the process, but it will also provide materials and training for educators to increase their knowledge and professional development about sustainable and blue education. Also, various community activities such as exhibitions, workshops, training, seminars, and meetNtalks will be provided by Country Hubs, within their regional area, not to only include and engage primary and secondary schools, but also to increase the awareness of the society. A digital platform will be created to follow up on school projects, and provide a virtual learning environment system including rewards and badges. All the materials that are going to be created during the project will be available and open to the public on this platform. In addition to this, at the end of each school period, a public voting session (internationally) will be held within this platform to raise awareness & engagement, create a wider audience and select the best school project which will receive the "Ocean Ambassador/Literate of the Year Award.