The Call for Applications for the Summer School on Ocean Literacy & Collaboration in the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea is now open!
The application deadline is the 27th of April at 23:59 CET. Successful candidates will be notified by the 28th of May. If you have not received any communication by this date, please check your spam folder before contacting us.
The EU4Ocean Summer School on Ocean Literacy & Collaboration is a 5-day event (14th – 18th of September) in the city of Milazzo (Italy) dedicated to thinking about how to better collaborate on ocean-related projects and apply this knowledge to advance a sustainable blue economy in a coastal city.
The Summer School supports the following learning outcomes:
- To become familiar with the objectives and actions of the EU4Ocean Coalition and Youth4Ocean Forum
- To learn how to scale up their efforts, under the framework of the UN Ocean Decade
- To learn more about how to effectively collaborate on the development of ocean-related projects
- To learn more about the diversity of collaboration and how to improve communication in transdisciplinary and multicultural environments
- To learn more how to collaborate and advance sustainable blue economy
- To learn more about local issues
- To learn more about how to engage with local institutions
The Summer School will share an online module prior to the activities in Milazzo.
The in-presence programme will host different international guests and speakers to analyse the following topics:
- Ocean Literacy
- Science Communication
- Empathy
- Sustainable Ocean Tourism
- Policy Advocacy
Furthermore, field trips and activities will be organised during the 5 days.
All the activities will be held in English.
The EU4Ocean Summer School will gather 25 youth from EU and non-EU European countries who are students from Masters and PhD Programmes or Early Career Professionals.
Members of the Youth4Ocean Forum and the Early Career Ocean Professionals members of the UN Ocean Decade programme are strongly encouraged to apply.
Find out more and apply here.