EMD Cities Roundtable - Maritime education: becoming a blue school municipality

Description :

The Blue School Municipality concept is a program of collaborating educational organizations in Den Helder. The aim is to improve the level of ocean literacy in schools, creating responsible and active generations that contribute to ocean sustainability. The Blue School Municipality encourages school communities to understand the ocean's impact on us and our impact on the ocean, engaging them in exploring ocean issues through structured and interdisciplinary strategies that strive for social impact, both with the participation from different partners and through the involvement of local communities.

The collaborating educational organizations have set the goal of implementing the Blue School concept as a continuous learning path from nursery school to secondary and possibly higher education too. This provides the opportunity for teachers and secondary school students to develop projects for primary education. For 2024, we are working on a plan and we could use your input!

Table Leader: Jan de Boer – Mayor, Den Helder Municipality (NL)

Moderator: Rob van der Sande - Strategic Advisor/Project Office European Affairs, Den Helder Municipality

Experts :

• Fotigui Camara - Deputy-Mayor responsible for youth participation, Den Helder Municipality

• Evy Copejans, Managing Director EMSEA

• Wietske Darphorn- Jac P Thijsseschool

• Remco Schaap -Scholen aan Zee

• Erwin de Haan – VONK

See Den Helder Challenge

Organised by Den Helder Municipality (NL)