Next_BlueGeneration Project

The main goal of this project is to raise awareness among young people about Blue Career Opportunities and to provide teachers with tools that enable them to inform and guide their students in this regard. This goal will be met by achieving the following objectives: - Build an up-to-date dataset on career and training paths in 5 sectors of the Blue Economy (Nautical Tourism, Maritime Transport, Marine Biotechnology, Aquaculture, Marine Conservation) - Provide career guidance to youths in finding a place in the Blue Economy by creating a gamification tool for skills self-assessment – BlueGeneration Game - Support students and teachers in discovering individual career pathways in the Blue Economy through the development of an interactive tool – Blue Career Pathway Tool - “Train the trainers” by providing teachers, educators, and instructors with easy-to-use background knowledge on Blue Careers through an open, online course (MOOC), enabling them to support the guidance provided by the Blue Career Pathway Tool and the BlueGeneration Game.