Funded projects

Discover the blue projects funded by SHORE!

Funded projects

Discover the blue projects funded by SHORE!

The SHORE blue projects

Through its open calls, SHORE is funding collaborative blue projects in schools, involving students and teachers. You can find all the funded projects here.

You might find some inspiration to create your own!

SHORE’s Open Call #3 – Funded schools

Srednja škola “Jure Kaštelan” Omiš

PIRAT

  • Croatia | Mediterranean Sea

Gimnazija Vukovar

GEOSAVE

  • Croatia | Danube River

Küpçüler İlkokulu

BLUEACT

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

Sultangazi İlkokulu

WATER LINE

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

Budapest IX. Kerületi Molnár Ferenc Magyar-Angol Két Tanítási Nyelvű Általános Iskola

Water

  • Hungary | Danube River

Hacıhüseyinler Ortaokulu

YES

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Sincan Primary School

Save Our Special World (S.0.S)

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • The S.O.S project empowers students and teachers to become active agents of change by promoting ocean literacy, sustainability, and environmental awareness through creative, hands-on, and digital learning activities.

Ceyhan Cumhuriyet İlkokulu

Big steps from little hearts to protect our seas (BLUE HEARTS)

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project is directly designed to increase ocean and water literacy among primary school students experiential, creative, and civic-based learning approaches.

Şehit Hüseyin Topkaya Ortaokulu

BLUE FAM

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Yeşiltepe İlkokulu

SAK-WATCH

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

Gökova Salih Güneyman Ortaokulu

POSEIDON’S CODE

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Kadrioru Saksa Gümnaasium

LVR

  • Estonia | Baltic Sea

Ted Izmir College

Blue Future Aegean: A Comprehensive Approach for Sustainable Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems (BLUE FUTURE)

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • This project aims to raise awareness about the protection of marine and water resources in the Aegean Region, particularly around Urla, and to organise training sessions.

Toki Şehit Fatih Erer Ortaokulu

Black Sea Awareness For Everyone (B.S.A.F.E)

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • B.S.A.F.E. empowers students to become Ocean Ambassadors, raising awareness about marine pollution through science, creativity, and collaboration across the Black Sea region.”

Sagrat Cor Diputacio

From Waves to Wardrobes: Circular Textile Innovation to Protect the Sea (SUSTAINABLE FSD)

  • Spain | Mediterranean Sea

  • A cross-curricular project transforming textile waste into innovation, the project is empowering students to reduce marine pollution and promote ocean literacy through science, design, and community engagement.

Panevėžio Žemynos progymnasium

BMBF

  • Lithuania | Black Sea

  • An interdisciplinary project empowering students to explore water ecosystems, reduce their water footprint, and become young water ambassadors—even far from the sea.

Şehit İdari Ataşe Çağlar Yücel Denizcilik Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi

Diving into Ecological Equity and Preservation of SEA (DEEPSEA)

  • Türkiye| Mediterranean Sea

  • The project engages students in exploring and protecting marine ecosystems through hands-on research, international collaboration, and environmental education to promote ecological equity and sustainable coastal living.

Bundesgymnasium Zehnergasse Wiener Neustadt

BlueMind

  • Austria | Danube River

  • BlueMind promotes water and climate literacy through interactive, interdisciplinary learning activities. Around 125 students (ages 13–16) and 10 teachers engage over one school term with topics such as virtual water, water justice, consumption, climate, and local water systems.

İncilipınar Şehit Burhan Acar İmam Hatip Secondary School

BLUE GUARDS

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Ampa Ciep Cesáreo Alierta

OCEAN SATELLITE

  • Spain | Mediterranean Sea

  • The aim of the project is the research about waste and microplastics through citizen science, by performing local experiments and using satellite data to study inland pollution’s impact on the Mediterranean.

Istituto Comprensivo Statale “Dante Alighieri”

Sustainable Eco-Habitats, Open Schooling, and Twinning for Promoting Regenerative Marine Biodiversity and Climate Action in Pesaro’s Marine Protected Area San Bartolo (FISHHOMES)

  • Italy| Mediterranean Sea

  • The aim of the project is building and monitoring sustainable Eco-Habitats and participating in Open Schooling, and Twinning towards promoting Regenerative Marine Biodiversity and Climate Action in Pesaro’s Marine Protected Area San Bartolo.

Secondary School No. 12 B.P. Hasdeu Constanța

Blue Horizon: Safeguarding the Black Sea’s Waters (N.E.P.T.U.N.E)

  • Romania | Black Sea

  • Blue Horizon: N.E.P.T.U.N.E. empowers students to protect the Black Sea through ecological education, civic action, and international collaboration for a sustainable future.

Kanuni Anadolu Lisesi

Blue Legacy

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

1st 12thesio Ralleion Peiramatikon Dimotikon Sxoleion

MedSea Detectives: Uncovering the Secret Life of Our Urban Coast (MEDUSA)

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • MedSea Detectives: Uncovering the Secret Life of Our Urban Coast” transforms students into young citizen scientists exploring marine biodiversity, microplastic pollution and climate impacts through hands-on research, digital storytelling and an innovative AR coastal trail.

Gustav Adolf Gymnasium

BSP Project

  • Estonia | BlackSea

Dumlupınar Şehit Mustafa Muhammed AK ilkokulu

WATEREDU

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • WaterWise Schools fosters water literacy, sustainability, and active citizenship through creative, hands-on learning—empowering primary students to protect water resources and act as young eco-leaders.

Muğla Technology and Culture College – Muğla Teknoloji ve Kültür Koleji

STEPWAVE

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project unites students from different countries to promote environmental awareness, sustainability, and climate action through creative teamwork, eco-friendly activities, and cultural exchange.

LLC “ANT”, Klasika Private Secondary School

B-BAAG

  • Latvia | Black Sea

  • Baltic Beacon (B-BAAG) promotes environmental literacy and climate action among Latvian students through STEAM education, AI-based marine litter analysis, and creative waste reuse aligned with the European Green Deal.

Ali Şir Nevai Ortaokulu

BLUEPRINT

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Şehit Mehmet Fatih Ongun Ortaokulu

Developing Secondary School Students’ Psychological Resilience and Ocean Identity in Adana (BLUE RESILIENCE)

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • Blue Resilience is an educational and community-driven project that fosters psychological, emotional, social and environmental resilience through ocean literacy, creativity and collective well-being.

Colegiul Național „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”

Blue Team for Danube

  • Romania | Danube River

  • The Blue Team for Danube project make a significant contribution to the development of applied environmental education by enriching students’ knowledge about the Danube through an integrated educational approach.

Morska Szkoła Podstawowa im. Aleksandra Doby w Gdańsku

BBG-MSP

  • Poland | Baltic Sea

Bağarası Hürriyet Ortaokulu

Tangled Realities of Abandoned Plastics (TRAP)

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • TRAP is a STEAM-based project that empowers students to creatively tackle marine pollution from ghost nets and plastics through hands-on science, technology, art, and environmental action.

Räpina Ühisgümnaasium

EHWW

  • Estonia | Baltic Sea

Doğuş Çay Primary School

Collaborate, Restore, Act for the Black Sea (CRABS)

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • The project is an international environmental awareness initiative focused on protecting and restoring the Black Sea’s marine and freshwater ecosystems, fostering ocean literacy, environmental awareness, and critical thinking skills among students.

Oymalıtepe Şehit Sedat Kaplan Ortaokulu

Following the Water: Explore, Protect, Share

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • Following the Water: Explore, Protect, Share focusES on supporting students in exploring water and ocean ecosystems, developing environmental protection awareness, and participating in environmental actions through workshops, field trips, and international collaborations.

Yenimahalle İstiklal ilkokulu

VR: Climate Change It Becomes Mediterranean/Smile

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • A student-focused climate action project that raises awareness about climate change and encourages children to protect the Mediterranean environment through creative, collaborative, and engaging learning activities.

SHORE’s Open Call #2 – Funded schools

1st Primary School of Agios Nikolaos

Blue Actions for a Sustainable Future-Teaching students to be more active!-BeBlueActive

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project activities foster ocean and water literacy by engaging students in practical and interdisciplinary learning aligned with the Mission Ocean objectives.

2nd High School of Kalivia

Biodiversity in Lagonisi

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project focuses on marine biodiversity. It includes both a hands-on study and bibliographical analysis of past and present marine biodiversity to draw conclusions about the future. The hands-on study involves autopsies, experiments, and laboratory work.

Anatolia College

Guardians of the Sea: Empowering Students in Ocean Conservation through STEM and Social Responsibility

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • The Sea Guardians project empowers students aged 12-16 to tackle marine conservation challenges through STEM education, hands-on activities with the “Guardian of the Sea” submarine, and social responsibility, culminating in the Sea of Ideas Hackathon to foster environmental stewardship and innovationContent Goes Here

Ano Syros Primary School

Mission to Educate, Discover and Protect: Safeguarding Biodiversity in the Mediterranean (MEDaverse)

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • The MEDaverse project aims to position students as guardians of the Mediterranean Sea’s biodiversity, embracing the core mission to Educate, Discover, and Protect.

Budapest X. kerületi Zrínyi Miklós Gimnázium

The Devil is in the details

  • Hugary | Danube River

  • The project measures the quality of drinking water in three different environments, compare our results, finding out solutions and show it to a wider audience through exhibitions.

Collège Jules Romains

WE ARE OCEAN –

Nice – Raconter la Mer

  • France | Mediterranean Sea

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Primary School

Blue Heritage, Blue Future

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project will be carried out by all teachers and administrators in our school. It will be carried out with the support of universities, institutes, local governments, NGOs, public institutions and organizations, and members of the press.

GRG 1 Stubenbastei

Blue Horizons

  • Austria | Mediterranean Sea & Danube River

  • The project integrates environmental conservation through real-world learning. Students study ecosystems, conduct lab experiments on pollution, apply math for data analysis, and develop communication, teamwork, and leadership skills during field trips, and raise awareness among stakeholders.

Hürriyet Secondary School

Blue Horizons: A Wave of Awareness for Tomorrows

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

IC via Padre Semeria

Mediterranean Seaforest at School (MED_SEA4_SCHOOL)

  • Italy & France | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project aims to raise awareness among young citizens about the importance of protecting and restoring marine ecosystems and biodiversity. It also seeks to make them aware of the need to prevent and eliminate pollution in our seas.

Istanbul/Beykoz Paşabahçe Secondary School

Blue Guardians of the Bosphorus (BlueBoss)

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • The project unites students, teachers, and the local community to explore and protect the unique biodiversity of the Istanbul Strait (Bosphorus).

Istituto Tecnico Economico e Tecnologico “G.Garibaldi”

Waves of Change (WOC)

  • Italy | Mediterranean Sea

  • The Waves of Change initiative promotes literacy and concrete actions for the protection of the ocean, involving students in seminars, workshops and plastic-free activities, raising awareness in schools and communities on the sustainable management of water resources

İzmir Karşıyaka Zeki Şairoğlu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

From Rain to Ocean: Sustainable Water Management and Microplastic Reduction (Rain2Ocean)

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • This project aims to reduce microplastic pollution, protect aquatic ecosystems, and promote environmentally friendly water use in local agriculture through rainwater harvesting and sustainable water management. It also seeks to enhance students’ environmental awareness and foster ocean literacy.

Karahantepe Primary School

Water Ambassadors for a Vibrant Environment-Shaping Future Leaders in Sustainable Water Practices (WAVE)

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Liceul Teoretic International de Informatica Bucuresti

Agents Quest United Awareness (A.Q.U.A.)

  • Romania | Black Sea

  • A.Q.U.A. empowers students as change agents, promoting sustainable coastal tourism and ocean literacy through international collaboration, hands-on activities, and advocacy, inspiring local and European impact as a certified European Blue School.

Mandoulides Schools

BLUEIMPACT

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • BLUEIMPACT aims to raise awareness among students about marine and coastal pollution. Through workshops, beach clean-ups, and expression through painting, we want children not only to learn about the sea but also to love it.

Mersin Yenişehir Gelecek Okulları Ortaokulu

The Future of the Oceans: Protecting Water and Oceans from Waste Oils from Our Homes

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Niederösterreichische Mittelschule Lunz am See

From Lunz to the Ocean: a Journey through connected waters “From Source to Sea”

  • Austria | Danube River

  • Through collaborations with institutions, participation in excursions and involvement in water research activities, students acquire valuable practical experience and deepen their scientific understanding.

Ozel Antalya Bahcesehir Bati İlkokulu

BLUE DROPS

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Palatul Copiilor Bacau

Our Oceans, Our Planet. Explore, Protect, Create

  • Romania | Danube River & Black Sea

  • Students take part in protecting the ocean through a variety of activities, including educational visits to businesses, field observations, boat trips, hands-on experiments, museum visits, tree planting, environmental cleanups, and analyzing satellite data — all aimed at understanding and tackling marine issues.

Plevne Ortaokulu

Water on Watch-WOW: Building a Community of Water Guardians

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • The WoW project raises students’ awareness of climate-related water challenges, strengthens their water literacy, and empowers them to become guardians of water through hands-on workshops, fieldwork, and international collaboration

Primary School of Palekastro

TURTLES’ Road Map

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 29 “Mihai Viteazul”

Healthy Coast, Sustainable Coast

  • Romania | Black Sea

  • Healthy Coast, Sustainable Coast aims to raise awareness about hazardous substances and marine litter along the Black Sea coast. Through hands-on activities, the project educates students on plastic and microplastic pollution.

Sehit Mehmet Zengin Secondary School

Less Plastic, More Blue

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • Our project promotes ocean literacy, plastic pollution awareness, and sustainability through AR/VR, workshops, and field trips, empowering students to take action for marine conservation and a sustainable future.

Selim Diniz Ortaokulu

The Future of the Oceans: SEAGRASSES

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Sömek Ortaokulu

Student-led Oceanic Movement for Eco-friendly Knowledge

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project promotes awareness of Mediterranean biodiversity through student-led events, creative activities, and eco-friendly initiatives, fostering collaboration and inspiring action to protect marine ecosystems.

Terme Ortaokulu

Blue Steps Without Plastic

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

The American College of Greece, Elementary School, Pierce

Students Engaging in Aquatic Sustainability, Protection, and Innovation for Responsible Tourism (SEA-SPIRIT)

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

Yücel Ballık Ortaokulu

BLUE TRACE

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • The project is an education and awareness project that aims to protect marine ecosystems, increase water literacy and raise awareness of sustainable environment by creating zero waste awareness among students.

SHORE’s Open Call #1 – Funded schools

32nd Primary school of Piraeus

e-Oceans: Connecting Youth, Protecting Seas

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project engages students in ocean literacy through virtual exchanges, storytelling, hands-on research, and local actions, culminating in a symposium to share solutions and inspire marine conservation globally.

AlRajaa School for Deaf Children

TRiO: Through a RIver to the Ocean (the contribution of partner Schools in preserving biodiversity in water)

  • Jordan | Mediterranean Sea

Antalya Private Konyaaltı Bahçeşehir College Science and Technology High School

MASCOT: Microplastics Assimilating by Chemical Oxidation Treatment

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • Using innovative chemical oxidation and electrolysis methods, ‘The Bell’ device targets microplastic removal in oceans, transforming them into easily retrievable macroplastics to combat marine pollution effectively.

Bahçelievler 15 Temmuz Şehitleri İmam Hatip Ortaokulu

AquaAlert: Alerting Communities to Marine Pollution

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

Düzce Borsa İstanbul Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi

Children of the Black Sea Hand in Hand

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • This project aims to identify the causes of pollution in the Black Sea and explore solutions, while striving to implement sustainable practices and raise public awareness on this issue.

Elementary school Šime Budinić

MPAD: Minimising Pollution in Adriatic Dalmatia

  • Croatia | Mediterranean Sea

  • Through the MPAD project, students will learn about the reasons for the pollution of the Adriatic Sea and try to come up with solutions to reduce it.

Escola Pérez Sala

BLU-ECHO: Blue School Calendar for Hands-On Ocean Education

  • Spain | Mediterranean Sea

  • The proposal outlines a comprehensive Blue Calendar of activities integrated into the school curriculum, focusing on ocean and water literacy, and aligned with the EU Mission Ocean & Waters.

Gökçeli Ortaokulu

Chasing the Blue: Let’s make a difference for the Black Sea.

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

Güler Mustafa Kızılağaç İlkokulu

Digital Efforts to Save Seas & Oceans

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • The aim of this project is to increase the ocean literacy skills of our students by using the digital scenario-based learning method with the knowledge skills we have gained through sea-based activities.

Gullmarsgymnasiet

ATOL: Art as a Tool for Ocean Literacy

  • Sweden | Baltic Sea

  • Using art as a tool to help marine biology high school students communicate ocean literacy to the wider public.

Gymnasium of Kanithos

SeaQuest: A fight against water pollution

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project aims to build a low-cost underwater robot that identifies and reports marine pollution, helping to recover harmful objects from the seabed using AI and GPS technology.

Hatay Fen Lisesi

WAVE: Waste Awareness – Volunteer Effects

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • We cover the topic “Hazardous Substances and Marine Litter” with this project, studying various waste from cruise ships and waste from cities such as plastics and heavy metals.

IES Serra d’Espadà

DBA: “Deep Blue Awakening”

  • Spain | Mediterranean Sea

  • Through the DBA project, students will become researchers and will investigate how to measure and analyse the pollution present in the Mediterranean Sea.

Institut Antoni Ballester

BH-FODAT: Forging Ocean Defenders through Art and Technology

  • Spain | Mediterranean Sea

  • This project raises ocean awareness through dynamic activities, educational games, art, citizen science, and conservation efforts, targeting students and tourists, fostering environmental education, and encouraging community involvement.

ISIS Michelangelo Buonarroti

AMB: Admire Marine Biodiversity. Eco-sustainable explorations in the Miramare Marine Protected Reserve, Trieste – Adriatic sea

  • Italy | Mediterranean Sea

Istituto Comprensivo Vicenza 5 – School Primary Giuseppe Giusti

TriO: Through the RIver to the Ocean. EU Schools’ contribution in preserving biodiversity in waters

  • Italy | Mediterranean Sea

  • Exploring water systems interconnections, exchanging local experiences at an international level and sharing a musical performance, we aim at a collective mobilization for saving waters and life on the planet.

Kecskeméti Lánchíd Utcai Sport Általános Iskola

TFD: Thousand-Faced Danube

  • Hungary | Danube River

Konak Mersinli Mesleki Teknik ve Anadolu Lisesi

Renewable Marine Energy: Harnessing the Power of the Sea

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • Our proposal for harnessing renewable marine energy aligns with the targets of promoting renewable seawater and energy, contributing to increasing utilization of renewable marine energy sources like tidal and wave energy, reducing carbon emissions, promoting sustainable development, and enhancing environmental stewardship.

Lale Kemal Kılıç Secondary School

Worst: We wasted the world’s water

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

  • To raise awareness among our students about environmental cleanliness and the cleanliness of the seas.

Montessano Elementary School

Feel&Heal: Feel the Nature, Heal the Ocean

  • Romania | Danube River

  • In a world facing environmental challenges, we are developing and piloting a Blue Curriculum using an innovative method, thus empowering children to become agents of change.

Mosonmagyaróvári Kossuth Lajos Secondary Grammar School and Student Hostel

KLG SEAfetyNet: Safeguarding Aquatic Biodiversity Through International and Intergenerational Network

  • Hungary | Danube River

Platon Schools

ZeroMarinePlasticsEdu: Towards a Zero Marine Plastics Education through Mission Based Learning co creation approach

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

Primary School Bartula Kašića Zadar

SEAA: Sea Eco Art Activity

  • Croatia | Mediterranean Sea

  • Through the SEAA project, students, teachers, and other stakeholders from the school and the local community of Zadar will be encouraged to collaboratively address the issue of hazardous substances and marine waste, specifically plastics and microplastics, in an innovative and experiential manner.

Recep Ahmet Mercan Secondary School

ILCC: Marmara: Improving Island Literacy and Fight Against Climate Crisis in Marmara Island

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • The project aims to raise awareness among secondary school students studying on Marmara Island and other surrounding islands about island literacy, sustainable blue economy and climate awareness.

Rg Rainergymnasium

DW-V-P: Donauwasser-Verschmutzungs-Projekt

  • Austria | Danube River

  • Ways of protecting danube-water-pollution.

Şehit Ömer Cankatar İlkokulu

Blue Seas of the Future

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

Theodoropoulos School

Seafarer’s Dream: Discovering and protecting our marine natural wealth using ICT

  • Greece | Mediterranean Sea

  • Students will engage in experiential field research that will enable them to develop skills of participatory research and place-oriented action, using ICT applications in collaboration with the scientific community. The pedagogical use of ICT, transforms traditional teaching practices and enhances students’ active engagement.

Topçular Secondary School

OED: Ocean Explorers in Düzce

  • Türkiye | Black Sea

Yenişakran Yunus Emre Ortaokulu

HEAL: Protect Sea, Heal the World

  • Türkiye | Mediterranean Sea

  • HEAL aims to create ocean and sea literacy, and increase the awareness of the local people and government with Meet&talks, museum trips, beach cleaning events and art workshops of sea wastes in a collaboration with partner organization from Romania.

More information about the blue projects funded under the SHORE Open Call #1 can be found in this document “D6.3 – First public report on the outcome of the open calls