On June 29th, 2022, during the press conference of the second edition of the SEA BEYOND project – moderated by marine advocate Patricia Furtado de Mendonça – the jury composed of (in alphabetical order) Enzo Barracco, photographer and climate artist; Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility; Fabien Cousteau, aquanaut, oceanographic explorer and environmental advocate; Kerstin Forsberg, marine scientist and social entrepreneur; Valentina Gottlieb, environmental influencer and activist; Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and Assistant Director General of UNESCO; and Hugo Vau, athlete, ocean explorer and surfer, awarded the three winning schools of the international contest at the conclusion of the educational cycle:
First place: MaArt – Newton College, Lima (Peru)
Second place: Seaweed Aquaculture – Shanghai High School International Division, Shanghai (China)
Third place: Video Game-Sea Beyond – Marcelline Tommaseo, Milan (Italy)
Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, declared: “In these first two years of the SEA BEYOND project we have achieved important results but we are all convinced that this initiative still has great potential to express and we want to show it. The jurors and all the Sea Beyonders are already a big family. We know that we are only at the beginning of this path in partnership with UNESCO-IOC. This year we have decided to award three schools, but I would like to emphasise the fact that all participants are actually winners. It is only by working with the new generations that we can achieve the goals set by the Ocean Decade”.
The event was part of the official calendar of side events at the UN Ocean Conference 2022, taking place in Lisbon from 27 June to 1 July 2022.