Climacité© and Blue Education Experience: Developing Adaptive Skills for Climate and Water Challenges

Excelia Business School has long embedded responsible management education in its pedagogical identity. The challenge is to ensure that students not only understand sustainability issues, but also identify vulnerabilities, reason behind uncertainty, engage stakeholders and contribute to transition and adaptation responses to climate and water-related risks.

Climacité© addresses this challenge through experiential learning connected to the Blue Education Experience. Students work on real climate, water and territorial vulnerability issues with local authorities, NGOs, companies and public actors involved in ecological transition and adaptation. They conduct analytical and hands-on missions, from vulnerability assessments and blue carbon estimation to waste sorting, awareness activities and recommendations for partner organizations.

Aligned with Excelia’s pedagogical model, Climacité© links transition teaching with real world action, enabling students to move from understanding phenomena to assessing impacts, acting in concrete contexts and designing managerial responses.

Outputs include diagnostics, indicators, field actions, awareness activities and
recommendations. To date, Climacité© has generated more than 5,030 projects with over 425 host organizations across civil society, business and public-sector ecosystems. In 2024–2025, it involved approximately 1,630 students and generated 143,052 hours of engagement.

Measured outcomes include an 18% perceived increase in student autonomy, over 20% improvement in analyzing vulnerabilities, engaging stakeholders and reasoning under uncertainty, over 80% reporting progress in understanding climate and water-related risks, and 90% of assignments having direct impact for partners.

“Climacité© helped me move from awareness to action and changed how I see my responsibilities as a future professional.” (Hugo Boqcait, Student participant, Climacité© / Blue Education Experience)