EU4Ocean Summer School on Ocean Literacy & Collaboration(Fully-funded and open to EU and non-EU countries)

The EU4Ocean Summer School on Ocean Literacy & Collaboration is an intensive 5-day coaching program geared toward constructing important expertise and fostering collaborative approaches within the design and implementation of ocean-related tasks. The fourth version of the Summer School will happen in Venice, Italy, from June 29 to July 4, 2025, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, highlighting nature-based options as a central theme.

This program will carry collectively 20 chosen college students and early-career professionals from worldwide universities and establishments from EU and non-EU international locations of the area. Participants might be geared up and empowered to lead a cultural shift in ocean science, advancing transdisciplinarity, fairness, inclusion, various data techniques, and worldwide cooperation.

Key studying outcomes

The Summer School is designed to obtain the next key studying outcomes:

• Familiarization with key worldwide initiatives: perceive the aims and actions of the EU4Ocean Coalition, Youth4Ocean Forum, and the United Nations Ocean Decade.
• Scaling up youth efforts: learn the way to amplify youth-driven ocean initiatives throughout the framework of the UN Ocean Decade.
• Effective collaboration in ocean tasks: purchase sensible expertise for profitable collaboration within the improvement of ocean-related tasks, emphasizing shared accountability and collective motion.
• Diverse data techniques: think about numerous data techniques for ocean science and coverage.
• Improving communication and storytelling: discover methods for enhancing communication of ocean tasks.

The Summer School presents a novel alternative to join with friends and specialists, alternate data, purchase expertise for advancing in a blue profession, and contribute to the worldwide effort for a sustainable ocean future.

Application course of and contributors’ choice

The EU4Ocean Summer School will collect twenty youths from EU and non-EU international locations of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea area who’re college students enrolled/graduated in a Master Degree/PhD programme, or already early profession professionals. No matter your background, we welcome individuals coming from all the sectors however with a shared ardour for the ocean.

Interested college students and early profession professionals can apply to the summer season college by filling up this form.

The deadline for purposes is March sixteenth 2025 by 11:00 PM CET, and profitable candidates might be notified by March twenty first 2025 (please, check your spam field).

Participants might be chosen in accordance to the next standards:

• Gender steadiness
• Geographical illustration
• Age vary: individuals up to 35 years previous who’re enrolled / graduated in a Master Degree / PhD programme, or already early profession professionals
• Background: all of the sectors are inspired to apply. We pays consideration to create an interdisciplinary group.
• Priority might be given to youth from the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, in addition to members of the Youth4Ocean Forum and ECOPs
• 4 additional sports activities might be reserved for candidates coming from the partnering establishments (no lodging supplied by the organizers on this case)

Programme

The in-presence programme will host totally different worldwide friends and audio system to tackle the next subjects at native and regional stage: empathy for collaboration, storytelling and communication, impression measurement, undertaking administration, ocean coverage and governance, stakeholders and neighborhood engagement, nature-based options.
The Summer School may have an on-line self-paced module prior to the in presence actions.

All the actions might be held in English.

Logistics and grants

• Accommodation in shared rooms might be supplied for all of the contributors, excluding the 4 additional contributors chosen from the partnering establishments.
• Lunches and a social dinner might be supplied for all of the contributors.
• In addition, UNESCO-IOC will present 5 journey grants that may cowl the price of the transport tickets (spherical journey).

Partners

The coaching is organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) in partnership with the European Commission-DG MARE beneath the European Ocean Coalition (EU4Ocean) framework and within the context of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), in collaboration with the CNR-Ismar, the University of Padova, IUAV, the Climate-KIC, and with the patronage of the City of Venice.