BlueGeneration Project
The innovative concept of the Blue Generation Project is based on a transnational cooperation. The Beneficiary Partners are from five different countries and a diverse range of organisations, but all work with unemployed youth and NEETs and will be able to exchange best practices and achieve synergy effects in this transnational consortium. The Expert Partners are primarily chosen for their expertise in the different Blue Economy sub-sectors, with the Donor States of Norway and Iceland being regarded as leading in the development of new industries such as Renewable Ocean Energy and Aquaculture and the Brussels-based Umbrella-associations representing an EU-wide international membership. This transnational approach provides the Beneficiary Partners and through them the NEETs with completely new international connections and a wealth of opportunities. It provides the Expert Partners, including those from Donor States, with new connections to a much needed, interested and engaged, youth workforce for their respective Blue Economy sub-sectors. It also offers them the opportunity to transfer their knowledge and expertise into the countries with high NEET and unemployment rates.
Blue Career Job Platform
We have launched the free job platform, specialized in the maritime sector.
Are you a company? Post your job, training or internship offers for free, related to the blue economy! We reach thousands of potential candidates.
Are you a young person? Here you will find job, training or internship offers throughout Europe!
Visit the Blue Career Job Platform and find an ocean of working opportunities!
BlueGeneration MOOC
The BlueGeneration MOOC platform aims to inform youth & future promoters about the job and training opportunities that exist for young people in the 7 different sub-sectors of Blue Economy in Europe.
What will you learn about each subsector?
• Facts & recent data
• Specialties, Roles & Working conditions
• Job opportunities in different countries
• Training & Education required
• Regulatory environment in Europe.
Blue Career Guide
The Blue Career Guide is an attractive and informative tool for young people between 15 to 29 years old to guide them for the career opportunities in the Blue Economy growth areas: coastal tourism, aquaculture, ocean energy, marine biotechnology, shipbuilding, maritime transport and fisheries.
The Career Guide provides valid information, gathered by the expert partners of the Blue Generation project (See them in the menu Partnership) about the job opportunities along with the employment status at national level or EU level as well as special interviews per sector in the end.
About BlueGeneration
The aim of the Blue Generation Project is to ATTRACT and ENGAGE young people between 15 and 29 years and CONVERT them to pursue a sustainable career in Blue Economy in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland.
To succeed in this, the Blue Generation Project brings together experts from the Blue Economy and Youth organisations to share knowledge about skills needs, career paths, open job positions and existing training.
Our scope
The Blue Generation project organizes info days about blue career prospects and offers free mentoring programs for those among the young who wish to pursue a career in Blue Economy and mobility exchanges through study visits for gaining first-hand experience in coastal tourism, aquaculture, ocean energy, marine biotechnology, shipbuilding, maritime transport and fisheries.
The project lasts from 2018 to 2022. In the first year the Blue Career Job Platform will be developed, offering free of charge information on blue job positions as well as training opportunites across EU countries. Through the BGP, it is envisaged to reach up to 39,000 young people through promotional activities and convert at least 2,000 to employment or training in the Blue Economy.
Target Groups: Who will benefit?
• Young people from 15 to 19 who are NEETs or at risk of becoming NEETs after finishing their current education – approached via high schools, VET centres and youth centres.
• NEETs from 15 to 29 currently registered as unemployed – approached via public and private unemployment centres, adult education centres, NGOs and associations.
• Young people from 20 to 29 at risk of becoming NEETs after finishing current education and Hard-to-reach NEETs, inactive youth living with parents, young mothers and young people with drug or alcohol abuse – approached via VET centres, Adult education centres, NGOs and associations.
Blue Economy promo visits in Romania
Priority: Organizing info-days and activities in high schools, adult education centres, NGOs, VET schools, universities, training centers, unemployment services and local associations to promote Blue Career opportunities.
Blue Generation is on video in Romania
blueFOCUS in Romania
blueTALK in Romania
Blue Generation beyond Partnership
We share what works!
Engage with likeminded people!
Our Local Partners
Our International Partners
The Blue Generation Project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment. The project is coordinated by Militos Consulting SA in Greece and Sea Teach in Spain, and is implemented by an international consortium in Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain with support from Blue Economy Experts from Belgium, Germany, Iceland and Norway.
Find out all the partners which are part of our international family!
The Blue Generation project benefits from the financing from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants. The aim of the project is to inspire and engage young people between 15 to 29 years old to pursue a sustainable career in the Blue Economy.
