The contingency period that the country experienced under Presidential Decree 82/2020, of March 26, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, provided a natural environment for facilitating a prior psychological preparation of the target population through compliance with the measures inserted in the National Plan to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus in communities. To fulfill the main objective of the Atlantic Blues School, which is to improve the awareness and actions of the ocean in society, the Coordinator of the Blue Schools in Angola, Profª. Professor Carmen Ivelize Van-Dúnem do Sacramento Neto dos Santos, guided the members of the Coordination of Blue Schools in Moçâmedes to carry out actions to raise awareness and mobilize stakeholders in the teaching-learning process by promoting an integrated strategy for environmental education capable of involving all marine sectors, with the aim of improving the level of ocean literacy in the school community in particular and in general in all citizens at local and national level.

Blue School is a response to the promotion of a project-based and problematizing approach in schools with greater emphasis on interdisciplinary and the development of critical thinking, behavior and action by students in relation to the ocean. This is also seen as an opportunity to promote and articulate the educational offer of different entities, allowing them to participate in a unique and coordinated oceanic literacy strategy for schools in Angola. The Atlantic Blues School program recognizes schools that work with ocean literacy, certifying them as being able to deliver an ocean curriculum to their communities.

Specific Objectives

1. Promote an integrated policy strategy for environmental education capable of involving all marine sectors.
2. Improve the level of oceanic literacy in all citizens in the short and long term, for the change of attitude in favor of good practices in its activities;
3. Improve ocean awareness and actions in society by creating responsible and active generations that contribute to ocean sustainability through international collaborations.
4. Promote healthy dialogue between the different members of the school community in actions related to oceanic literacy.

Therefore, all these assumptions mentioned above comply with the expected social results of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda 4 (Quality Education): Ensuring the inclusive, equitable and quality education promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all; 14 (Life Below Water): Conservation and Sustainable Use of Oceans, Seas, and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development and 17 (Partnerships for Goals): Strengthen the Means of Implementation and Revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.

All these international strategies reinforce the importance of multiple literacies, critical thinking, informed decision-making, student autonomy, communication and interdisciplinary (OECD, 2015, European Commission, 2018; UNESCO, 2018).