Educational material on sustainable fisheries and aquaculture awarded Silver at the Best European Learning Material Awards (BELMA)

At an online awards ceremony today, it became clear that the material that Sjókovin – Blue Resource, have created in collaboration with the IT company Tøkni og the Faroese Educational authority Nám, had been awarded the silver in category 3 encompassing materials for the age groups 12 – 17 years. The material teaches students about sustainability in the seafood sectors, and connects local and global perspectives through increased knowledge of local food seafood production, whilst relating these to global perspectives and challenges in an integrated way.

The Belma award has been granted annually since 2009, and is organised by European Educational Publishers Group in collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair and the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media. All entries are thoroughly evaluated (including written feedback) by an independent jury of outstanding experts on schoolbooks and educational media.

Below you can find some of the comments from the award jury:

 “The material has a large variety of informational texts, tasks, films, images and maps, offering the students many different learning opportunities”.

 “The material takes the Faroe Islands as a point of departure but expands the topics to global perspectives and emphasises sustainability and climate in a well-integrated way”

 “Well combined focus on specifics of the Faroe Islands fishing and salmon industry, with worldwide challenges connected to providing sustainable development in food supply, but also dealing with environmental problems and protection”

 “Rich and demanding content which is clearly structured regardless of the complexity of some parts; easy and accessible introduction to a new concept and new terms”

“Extremely beautiful photographs for each of the 8 areas and respective topics; illustrations and other visual aids support the text and textually based explanations; highly attractive videos provide added value”

We are very humble to receive this award and would like to thank the people at Tøkni and Nám for the excellent collaboration, as well as the Marine Stewardship Council for allowing us to make their excellent materials accessible to a Faroese audience. We would also like to thank everyone who has allowed us to use images and videos in the material.

The educational material can be viewed here: