WHEN SCENTIST GO UNDER THE OCEANS

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Blue Economy has rapidly evolved over the years, creating 5.4 million jobs and generating almost €500 billion gross added value annually. This sector is characterized mainly by a great rise in underwater scientific activities, creating a promising new sub-market of BlueTech and Scientific Diving. Manned and unmanned diving appears in different forms all over the Blue Economy with the diving sector emerging, creating opportunities for growth and jobs. Scientific divers are qualified scientists, who use diving equipment and techniques to perform underwater tasks for their fieldwork. Thanks to the recent advances in robotics, scientist also uses tethered and autonomous robots for underwater explorations. SCIENCEinBLUE aims to meet the citizens, in particular children and young minds with researchers working in the area of underwater science and technology by addressing the question When scientist go under the oceans? One hundred forty visits are planned over two years in primary and secondary schools as well as maritime vocational schools in seven different regions of Turkey including French, English and Italian speaking international schools. During these visits and the researcher night, the project members will be using mainly the results obtained in eight different EU projects related to marine citizen science, underwater cultural heritage, sustainable tourism, underwater physiology, marine protected areas, informatics, robotics, IoT and educational aspects of scientific diving in order to demonstrate that scientific career is accessible regardless of gender and ethnicity; Oceans and its conservation is critical to human existence; oceans are still waiting to be explored; underwater environment is an important playground for STEM activities; innovation and economic potential of underwater technologies are important for Europe;underwater research is exciting and highly interdisciplinary; European Union has a leading role in promoting science and science education