The school contest aims to enhance excellence, skills, and methodological abilities acquired by students and at the same time, expand their knowledge related to Blue Energy. Students will have the opportunity to participate in an international project and test themselves on innovative topics that, in turn, will enable them to increase their knowledge and skills. The school will have the opportunity to gain international visibility and expand the curricular topics.

Previous experience through the project “MAESTRALE” showed that involving citizens and young people in a cooperation project, is not only possible, but beneficial. Several high school students from the Istituto Tecnico Professionale Tito Sarrocchi, in Siena, Italy, participated in a blue growth experiment promoted by the University of Siena. The students had the opportunity to discover Blue Energy (BE), a new frontier in the field of renewable energies, and learn a lot about how BE technologies work and what they can do. The students had the opportunity to experience the world of European projects and were active players in some of the project’s activities that allowed them to participate in local and international events, meet other citizens and students from other countries, and enrich their cultural background and experiences.

Following the first phase of training, students were challenged to shift their role and find suitable solutions for transferring what they learned to other people and their peers. This included a visit to Malaga (Spain) as well as developing co-working laboratories to assemble small-scale prototypes of Blue Energy technologies. Paving the way for the next “blue jobs”, students from the Technical High School in Siena (Italy) became our European Ambassadors of Blue Energy.

This successful experience is the foundation of the "BLUE DEAL for the Future" contest, which has expanded its scope to include even more students.

To this aim, High School Education Institution students from European Member States, and the IPA Countries are called to participate in the “BLUE DEAL for the Future” contest.