Blue Skills: the Summer School on Sustainable Blue Growth was held in Trieste

The 2022 edition of the Summer School: the Copernicus Marine Service as a supporting tool to foster Sustainable Blue Economy was held form 2 till 8 of July.

25 students from Albania, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Libia and Tunisia gathered in Trieste to attend the advanced training course. The summer school is part of Blue Skill, the initiative promoted by OGS and funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research - MUR which is included in the European and international strategies on sustainable blue economy. The goal is to train a new generation of professionals to tackle climate, economic and environmental challenges by offering training opportunities.

The goal of the summer school is to train promising talents operating in the marine and maritime sectors and to foster networks and partnerships that can help to scale-up activities in support of sustainable blue economy, including research, entrepreneurial and communication actions.

In the Summer School lessons about sustainable blue economy, data management and decision making were offered to focus on global relevant issues including climate change, seabed, fisheries and maritime spatial planning.

This year the School was mainly focused on the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), one of the six pillar services of the EU Copernicus programme. The CMEMS provides regular and systematic reference information on the physical and biogeochemical ocean and sea-ice state for the global ocean and the European regional seas. It involves analysis, forecast, reprocessing and reanalysis.