
Marianne Helene Rasmussen, director of the University of Iceland Research Centre in Húsavík, and her colleagues, have received a generous grant to develop an innovative and immersive digital education tool based on visual and personal storytelling from a sailing expedition around the Arctic. The grant is 400,000 Euros, or around 60 million ISK.
This is a European Union Erasmus+ grant for the project "Visual Storytelling for Ocean Education (ViSOE): developing an innovative digital resource to facilitate ocean education training, based on visual, personal stories from an Arctic sailing expedition".
The main objective of this project is to increase the number of better-resourced teachers with enhanced knowledge and engagement about the ocean. The learning material will be accessible online and will also be used in teacher education and in professional teacher training courses. The material is designed for 12 - 14-year-old students; in English to begin with, but the aim is to have it translated into different Nordic languages.
I think it is very important to increase the teaching material available about the ocean in Iceland. In most places in Iceland, you live close to the ocean, and it is thus important that children learn about the ocean and marine life
- says Marianne.