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As part of the EducOceano Pedagogical Program and the celebration of World Ocean Day, ASPEA launches a challenge to 1st cycle schools, an illustration contest under the theme “What the Ocean means to me”.
The Ocean is a source of Life, it plays a key role in regulating the climate and combating climate change, it is a carbon sink and provides us with oxygen and a wide variety of other resources. Regrettably, the Ocean faces serious environmental problems generated by human activity, namely marine litter, loss of biodiversity and acidification of sea water, as a result of global warming.
We want to know what the Ocean means to you and how you can contribute to its preservation. This competition aims to promote the theme of Ocean conservation among the educational community and raise awareness of its conservation, through interesting and creative illustration works.
Recipients: Students of the 1st cycle of basic education
Contest open until June 21, 2023
Disclosure of results: June 26, 2023