Award for Best Educational Initiative at the European Maritime Days!!
24-25 May 2023: In an exciting development, the RAISE-CS project pilot of the Erasmus Maris initiative has been honored at the European Maritime Days (EMD) awards ceremony in Brest, France. The project's outstanding efforts to foster sustainable seas and oceans through inclusive citizen science in schools earned them the title of "Best Educational Initiative." The prestigious recognition, accompanied by a certificate, a trophy, and a financial award of €1000, highlights the invaluable dedication of both the project team and the pupils of ES-Mol, Sint Ferdinand, Campus Max and the students of Thomas More, who participated in the different activities, promoting ocean literacy and empowering informed decision-making,
UPCOMING EVENTS
- 26-27 October 2023: High level dissemination event at the city of science in Valencia. More details coming soon
PAST EVENTS
- At the awards ceremony of the European Maritime Days (EMD) in Brest (France), the RAISE-CS project pilot of the Erasmus Maris initiative was honored with the "award for the best educational initiative".
- 20-24 March 2023: The teachers of together with their pupils carried our a microplastic assessment campaign and an environmental awareness campaign in Burriana, Spain.
- On February 17, 2023: We presented the Erasmus Maris initiative, of which RAISE-CS is a pilot project, to the European Committee of the Regions. ( https://cor.europa.eu/en/events/Pages/16th-sedec-commission.aspx).
- On January 18 2023, we organised a team-building event between the pupils of the European schools and pupils from vocational schools (including pupils with disabilities).
- On October 25 2022, we had a Stakeholder meeting at the European Commission's Joint Research centre in Geel (Belgium)
- RAISE-CS participated in the 4th ECSA Conference 2022: Citizen Science for Planetary Health, which took place 5-8 October 2022. There, we presented our project during the oral session 4: Citizen Science in education and schools.
- Our 3rd RAISE-CS project progress meeting took place in Berlin between 3-4 October 2022
- In June 2022 we had our 2nd RAISE-CS project progress meeting & Meeting with schools.