IOInforma news bulletin
The IOI makes available Ocean and IOI training-related information and opportunities, reporting of IOI’s activities and plans, via the IOInforma. The latest IOInforma bulletins are available to view below and back issues can be found in the IOInforma Archives. Readers are welcome to email IOI HQ for any feedback or information.
Highlights
- World Oceans Day 2023: “PLANET OCEAN: TIDES ARE CHANGING” IOI Network events held globally
- Continuing Professional Development Webinar Series: Beyond boundaries: how is the new 'high seas' treaty a game changer?: REPORT
Announcement: Venturing into the Abyss: Deep Seabed Mining – Online – 28 September 2023, 15:00 - 16:30hrs CEST
News
- IOI Focal Point in Chile organised the 2nd International Seminar “Oceans, Sustainability and Environment” in partnership with Universidad Autonoma de Chile and the Instituto de Investigacion en Derecho of the Law School: REPORT
- Obituary: Alexandra Behnam-Hannawi (13/09/38 – 07/08/23)
Ocean Training and Education Opportunities
- IOI Ocean Academy: REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Singapore, Costa Rica, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore ((हिंदी) SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED: Nigeria, Türkiye, Egypt, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa; LAUNCH of the first Ocean Academy programme by Singapore in Hindi (हिंदी)
Highlights
- 19 June 2023, governments adopted the new International legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ)
- Preserving Our Ocean Legacy: IOI Honorary President Awni Behnam on the adoption of the new 'high seas' treaty
- IOI Representative at the Further resumed 5th Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on BBNJ: REPORT
News
- IOI is represented at the UN ICP: New Maritime Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities, 5-9 June 2023; REPORT
- Representatives of the IOI participate in the UN Trade Forum 2023 - Toward the SDG Summit 2023: High-impact trade initiatives for accelerating the SDGs, 8th - 9th May 2023, Geneva: REPORT
- IOI Canada OCEAN GOVERNANCE Training: SDG 14 AND THE UN SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE, 11th April - 1st June 2023: REPORT
- IOI representative attends the PRE-INC 2 ASIA ONLINE FORUM, May 2023 and the PEMSEA Blue Carbon Forum in June 2023: REPORTS
Ocean Training and Education Opportunities
- IOI OCEAN ACADEMY: REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Pakistan, Maldives; SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED: Ukraine, Costa Rica, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Black & Mediterranean Seas
Highlights
- IOI Alumni Continuous Professional Development Webinar Series: Sailing into the Blue Economy; REPORT
- Launch of the IOI Canada Online Course on Ocean Governance: SDG14 and the UN Summit of the Future, 11 April - 1 June 2023; REPORT
- IOI South Africa Ocean Governance Training Programme for 2023, 4-29 September: REGISTRATIONS OPEN
News
- Obituary Judge Vladimir Vladimirovich Golitsyn (27/02/47 – 26/03/23)
Ocean Training and Education Opportunities
- IOI OCEAN ACADEMY: REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Costa Rica, Thailand; SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED: Singapore, India, Portugal, Pakistan
Highlights
- Survival at stake: Negotiations resume on an international legally binding instrument under UNCLOS at the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, 20 February – 30 March 2023
- UNEP and IOI sign a 4-year Memorandum of Understanding; 13 February 2023
News
- WORLD OCEAN REVIEW 1: LIVING WITH THE OCEANS - now also available in Japanese
Ocean Training and Education Opportunities
- IOI Canada’s first WORKSHOP ON OCEAN GOVERNANCE FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Canada, 5 - 9th December 2022: REPORT
- IOI Ocean Academy SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED Courses: South Africa, Pakistan, Singapore, India, Maldives, Turkey, Egypt: REPORTS
Highlights
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 16th 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
Highlights
- 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
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
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
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
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