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The IOI’s global year-long 50th Anniversary celebrations come to a fitting end this December:

  • Colloquium on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the IOI, under the Patronage of HE President G Vella, of the Republic of Malta - 12 December 2022: REPORT
  • The Launch of the Commemorative IOI@50 Website and Album: https://www.ioinst.org/ioi-50/
  • Postage Stamps Commissioned to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of IOI
  • IOI Egypt celebrates the 50th Anniversary of IOI under the auspices of its host institute NIOF, 1 November 2022: REPORT

News

  • IOI Alumni Webinar in partnership with the ECOP Programme: “Was 2022 truly the Ocean Super Year we hoped for?”, 25 November 2022:  REPORT
  • Special Seminar: Ocean Governance - A Legacy Interrupted; Aula Magna, University Campus Valletta; Hybrid, 30 November 2022: REPORT
  • UN Climate Conference, COP27, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – some reflections from Vinitaa Apte, Co-Director IOI Ocean Academy, India

Ocean Training and Education Opportunities

  • Successful delivery of the 17th In-person IOI Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean, Black, Baltic & Caspian Seas: REPORT
  • IOI Ocean Academy REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Singapore; SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED: Black and Mediterranean Seas, Portugal, Pakistan, Singapore, Kazakhstan: REPORTS
  • Successful completion of the IOI Training Workshop on Basic Concepts of Ocean Governance for Early Career Ocean Professionals, with a focus on African Seas, Online, November 2022: REPORT
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  • IOI represented at the East Asia Summit Workshop on Maritime Cooperation: Technical and Scientific Cooperation towards Clean Healthy, and Sustainable Ocean, 30 August – 1 September 2022, Manila, Philippines
  • IOI@50: IOI China Regional Centre Celebrates the IOI’s 50th ANNIVERSARY with an Alumni Workshop in Tianjin; Hybrid, 7th September 2022: REPORT

News

  • Professor Raimund Bleischwitz takes over as Director of IOI GERMANY succeeding Dr Werner Ekau, October 2022

Ocean Training and Education Opportunities

  • IOI Ocean Academy: REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Egypt, Turkey, Black & Mediterranean Seas, South Africa, Maldives; SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED: Pakistan, South Africa, Costa Rica, Nigeria
  • The IOI Focal Point in Chile and the Universidad Autónoma de Chile co-organised a seminar titled, “Oceans, Sustainability and Environment”, Hybrid, 25 October 2022: REPORT
  • Award of the IOI Elisabeth Mann Borgese Bursary 2022-23, 30 September 2022: REPORT
  • IOI Ocean Governance Training Programme for the Western Pacific Region; Hybrid, 29 August - 11 September 2022: REPORT
  • Successful completion of the 9th Ocean Governance Training Programme for Africa; Hybrid, 5 - 30 September 2022, Offered by IOI South Africa: REPORT
  • IOI Germany Summer School in 2022; Online, 19 - 30 September 2022: REPORT
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Highlights: 

  • IOI Delegation at the United Nations Ocean Conference, 2022, 27th June – 1st July, Lisbon: IOI joined partner organisations for two side events: REPORT
  • IOI Contributes a third Voluntary Commitment on the IOI Ocean Academy in the path to achieving SDG14 at the UN Ocean Conference: REPORT
  • Written statement submitted jointly to the 2022 UN Ocean Conference by the IOI and the Early Career Ocean Professionals Programme 

News: 

  • IOI@50 Celebrations: IOI South Africa organised an event “Showcasing IOI in Africa”; ONLINE, 4th August, 2022: REPORT
  • “Revitalisation: Collective Action for the Ocean”, World Oceans Day 2022: The IOI Network celebrates globally through the activities of the IOI Centres and Focal Points
  • Some thoughts on the WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement, June 2022, Awni Behnam, Honorary President, IOI 

Ocean Training and Education Opportunities: 

  • IOI Ocean Academy: REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Nigeria, Pakistan and Portugal: SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED: Singapore, Egypt; LAUNCH of the first Ocean Academy programmes in Pakistan and South Africa
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Highlights:

  • IOI@50 Celebrations: Presentation of a token of appreciation from IOI to HE George Vella, President of Malta; 17th June 2022: REPORT
  • IOI@50 Celebrations: 2022 Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean Lecture, 19th May, Dalhousie University, organised by IOI Canada: REPORT 

News:

  • UN Ocean Conference, Lisbon; Highlight on Side Events with IOI participation: ANNOUNCEMENT
  • New Director for IOI South Africa, Ms Judy Beaumont and IOI Focal Point in Chile, Dr Nicolas Ojeda Javala: ANNOUNCEMENT
  • IOI is represented at the Twenty-second meeting of the UN ICP on Oceans and the Law of the Sea: "Ocean observing", 6 - 10 June 2022: REPORT
  • Exhibition “My Seas, My Oceans” Palais des Nations, Geneva Switzerland: REPORT 

Ocean Training and Education Opportunities:

  • 8th Training Programme on the Sustainable Development and Governance of the Caspian Sea; 16 - 27 May 2022, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and in Hybrid mode: REPORT
  • IOI Ocean Academy, registrations now open for Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa; Successfully completed: Maldives, India, Black and Mediterranean Seas
  • IOI Germany Summer School: Ocean Governance for Sustainable Marine Ecosystems, Online, 19th – 30th September: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
  • IOI Canada Training: OCEAN GOVERNANCE IN THE UN DECADE OF OCEAN SCIENCE: KEY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; Hybrid,11th April - 2nd June 2022: REPORT
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Highlights:

  • IOI hybrid side-event during UNCTAD’s 4th Oceans Forum on Trade-Related Aspects of Sustainable Development Goal 14; Reflections on the Bridgetown Covenant and UNCTAD 15 outcomes: The role of knowledge-based institutions in achieving common aims through capacity development, 6th April 2022; Organised as an event of the IOI’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations: REPORT

News and Reports: 

  • IOI Training Workshop on Basic Concepts of Ocean Governance for Early Career Ocean Practitioners, with a focus on the African Seas; Online, 29 & 31 March; 5 & 7 April 2022: REPORT
  • IOI OCEAN ACADEMY courses COMING UP (the Maldives and Singapore)  and SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED (Kazakhstan and Singapore): ANNOUNCEMENT and REPORT
  • Challenges of Sustainable Blue Economy in Marine Trade, Science and Aquaculture during vICOMSA; 8th March 2022, Online; Special Session Organised as a special event of the 50th anniversary of the IOI: REPORT
  • WEBINAR on the “Economic Valuation of Coastal Ecosystems” organised by the IOI Focal Point in INDONESIA; Online; 9th March, 2022: REPORT
  • Preview of some IOI Network preparations for World Oceans Day 8th June 2022: REPORT
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Highlights:

  • On the 50th Anniversary of the IOI, a Message from the Honorary President IOI, Dr Awni Behnam
  • The IOI OCEAN ACADEMY: Ocean Knowledge for all, Programme launched as part of the IOI 50th Anniversary

News and Reports: 

  • Launch of the World Ocean Review 7; The Ocean, Guarantor of Life – Sustainable Use, Effective Protection 
  • IOI Thailand Training Centre: MOU signed with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR); New Director Dr Anuwat Nateewathana appointed 
  • IOI Malta Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for Mediterranean, Black, Baltic and Caspian Seas; 
  • IOI Training Course on Ocean Governance, Ocean Sciences and Geoethics; Offered by IOI Brazil with the support of IOI Costa Rica; 

 Training and Education Opportunities:

  • ONLINE: Master of Arts in Ocean Governance, offered via distance learning by the University of Malta in partnership with the IOI, starting October 2022; APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN; Early Bird Discount
  • The IOI OCEAN ACADEMY: Free Online modules available in Turkish, Russian languages; APPLY NOW
  • Special IOI Session during ICOMSA: Challenges of Sustainable Blue Economy in Marine Trade, Science and Aquaculture; 8th March 2022, 08:00 – 09:10 CET, Online; REGISTER 
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