The four week IOI Thailand Ocean Governance Training Programme was successfully completed in July. The goal of this one-month training was to provide a deep insight into the global ocean governance with a focus on regional ocean governance frameworks, more particularly the Southeast Asian seas and the Indian Ocean.
This training programme - co-organised by NMDIS and the IOI China Regional Centre for the West Pacific Region - provided an introduction to themes of Ocean Governance with special reference to the international legal framework of UNCLOS.
IOI Canada's recent online training programme addressing Ocean Governance after COP28, concluded successfully in May, reaching an international audience from over 50 countries. An earlier outreach event titled The Ocean and Us in an Era of Climate Change was offered in partnership with educators as a professional development day for teachers.
This programme is aimed primarily at marine professionals around the world with responsibility for some aspect of coastal and Ocean management. Participants need to be proficient in the English language to maximally benefit from the interactive programme.
The Ocean Literacy and Alumni Lecture Series was held at the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR)/African Regional Aquaculture Centre (ARAC) Centre, in Nigeria.
IOI Germany and the host institute, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), successfully conducted a training course on the co-design and development of transdisciplinary research projects in a Global North/South perspective.
Following last year’s successful pilot, IOI Canada recently delivered its second Workshop on Ocean Governance for Indigenous Peoples.
Offered as part of the IOI’s capacity building programmes on Ocean Governance and in partnership with co-founding partner the Caspian Sea Institute (CSI) of Turkmenistan, the Ninth course focusing on Caspian Sea issues came to a fruitful completion last month.
The training course was co-organised by the National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS) of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the IOI China Regional Center for the West Pacific Region at Aster Plaza, Tianjin, China; Report by Prof Mao Bin (Course Director)