(ANSA) - PALERMO, OCTOBER 26 - A group of Sicilian students spoke for a development model based on the principles of the Blue Economy, a proposal by the Sicilian Fisheries Productive District. Seven students from Mazara del Vallo (Tp) visited Milan Expo as a part of their prize as winners in a contest sponsored by the district.

Accompanied by their school director, students of the Ruggero D'Altavilla industrial technical institute met District President Giovanni Tumbiolo, Councillor for Regional Productive Activities Mariella Lo Bello, and Linda Vancheri, a former councillor.

Councillor Lo Bello expressed appreciation for the students' work in the Young Blue competition, sponsored by the fishing district on the occasion of the Blue Sea Land-Expo of agro-industrial districts in the Mediterranean, Africa and the Middle East. The students made a short video on the Blue Economy that won a contest open to all secondary schools. The short film was screened at the end of a workshop on the Blue Economy held at the Italian Pavilion in Expo. The winning students were Ignazio Margiotta, Aleandro Gancitano, Giuseppe Giacalone, Francesco Armato, Dionisio Giordano, Michele Errante and Matteo Reina.