Today is International Day of Education, and in celebration, UNESCO and Prada Group have announced the third edition of their SEA BEYOND educational program dedicated to the dissemination of ocean literacy and ocean preservation, as well as a new partnership with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries without Borders). This year, 34,385 students from 184 secondary schools across 56 countries will benefit from the SEA BEYOND’s training, which will focus on the interrelation between the ocean and climate, and the associated environmental challenges. It will offer ocean literacy training sessions for students and teachers and include live lessons with UNESCO ocean and climate experts. The program will run from January through June 2024 and will end with an international contest, as per the previous editions. 

All participating schools will their own awareness campaigns, which will encourage their peers to develop more conscious behaviors that help to promote ocean preservation using text, graphics or interactive content. The jury evaluating the campaigns will be composed of new and pre-established SEA BEYOND “friends,” the so-called SEA BEYONDers, people who have placed a love for the ocean at the center of their personal and professional lives.