What Marine SABRES is about
The Marine Systems Approaches for Biodiversity Resilience and Ecosystem Sustainability project is an EU-funded research project aiming to:
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develop better ways to manage coastal areas by taking both environmental needs and economic priorities into
account;
- reduce the negative effects of human activities on the ocean.
THE PROBLEM | The environment is organised in complex and delicate systems where each and every element plays a role in ensuring positive effects in the long run. Many human activities, including tourism, trade, transport, aquaculture and fisheries can modify natural processes and even damage the environmental capacity to provide the invaluable services we need.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS | Marine SABRES brings together international experts across the biological and social sciences to develop better ways to manage coastal areas and reduce the negative effects of human activities on the ocean. The proposed socio-ecological solutions are being co-designed in collaboration with citizens from the three European marine regions of Macaronesia, the Tuscan Archipelago, and the Arctic Northeast Atlantic, and focus on local priorities, including: tourism, fisheries and aquaculture, and protection of flora and fauna.
The Marine SABRES School Competition 2025
By registering to the Marine SABRES School Competition 2025, you will tutor your students in playing an online serious game.
Your student will discover more about the links between humans activities, changes in marine ecosystems, and impact on our well-being.
How to participate
Learning Objectives
By the end of the Marine SABRES School Competition 2025, your students will be able to:
- Identify human activities that can modify marine ecosystems across Europe;
- Describe how human activities can change marine ecosystems processes and functioning;
- List possible measures to prevent or correct damages to marine ecosystem services.
- Teachers of natural and social sciences, English and CLIL, citizenship, environmental and sustainability education who can tutor lower (10-13 years) and upper (14-18 years) secondary school students across Europe.
- Discover how strong the link between us and the ocean is;
- Improve awareness and attitude towards the marine environment – to which we all belong!
- Meet teachers and students from across Europe and learn from peers;
- Find the support of a European network of researchers.
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