During a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Malta, the IOI Honorary President Dr Awni Behnam – via video message – conveyed to HE George Vella, President of Malta, the IOI’s recognition and appreciation for hosting the IOI HQ over the first fifty years of its existence.

After a two-year COVID hiatus, IOI Canada was excited to hold its first in-person event again with the 2022 Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean Lecture, organised in celebration of IOI’s 50th anniversary.

As an organization in consultative status with ECOSOC, the IOI shall be represented at the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) with a delegation of three persons. This builds on the IOI’s commitment to the process, which started with the first UNOC held in 2017 in New York.

We are happy to introduce the new Director for IOI South Africa, Judy Beaumont and the New Focal Point in Chile, Dr Nicolas Ojeda Zavala.

This was the first in person meeting of the ICP since the onset of the pandemic and Ms Liliana Rodriguez Cortes, Delegate of the IOI to the UN HQ represented IOI during the first day of the meeting.

Dr Awni Behnam, Honorary President, IOI, attended the opening ceremony for the exhibition, “My Seas, My Oceans”.

The eighth course focussing on Caspian Sea issues came to a fruitful completion last month. This course is part of the IOI’s capacity building programmes on ocean governance and is offered with co-founding partner the Caspian Sea Institute of Turkmenistan.

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The interdisciplinary Summer School hosted by ZMT - Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen, DIE and the International Ocean Institute, IOI Germany, will train...

IOI Canada recently concluded delivery of its online course on Ocean Governance in the UN Decade of Ocean Science: Key Issues and Challenges.