IOI Canada recently delivered its first workshop specifically for Indigenous Peoples.

The annual five-week IOI Malta Training on Regional Ocean Governance drew to a close, with 17 more participants graduating this year.

This online training opportunity for Early Career Ocean Professionals built on the decades-long experience of the IOI in training career ocean practitioners and aimed at providing a basic interdisciplinary introduction to the concepts of Ocean governance, targeted to ECOPs hailing from countries bordering the seas of the African continent.

Following a two-year hiatus imposed by the COVID pandemic on in-person training, the annual five-week IOI Malta Training Course on Regional Ocean Governance Course has kicked off with its sixteenth in-person offering in Malta launched during a ceremony presided over by Prof Awni Behnam (Honorary President of the IOI and Training Course Director) on the 7th of November.

The two-week training programme focusing on issues of the Western Pacific Ocean attracted 26 participants from eight countries.

After the first two weeks of online training, it was finally possible to welcome the participants, to in-person training in Cape Town. Lectures were delivered by distinguished speakers from all over the region, with some presenting online. Field visits were also possible for the first time since the pandemic.

The interdisciplinary Summer School was hosted by the IOI through its centre in Germany, and with the support of the host institute Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT).

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.

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