Registrations are open for potential participants to the 13th edition of the IOI Regional Ocean Governance Malta Training Course and are available online.
This year’s course will run between 5 November and 8 December and, for the first time, is formally accredited by the University of Malta in the form of three study-units carrying a total of 15 ECTS. The description for the three Study-Units in question (GSC 5101-5103) can be accessed at:
The Course is framed within four modules, exposing the annual intake of 20 Course participants to the international ocean legal framework (e.g. UNCLOS), ocean resource management and exploitation issues, negotiation skills and even a policy-simulation exercise at the end. The Course Faculty is constituted by eminent University of Malta academics and foreign lecturers and the Course Programme includes two targeted seminars mainstreaming topical issues such as ocean literacy and marine litter, as well as two field visits (Grand Harbour and Gozo), GIS lab sessions and a training session on Marine Spatial Planning.
Throughout its previous twelve runs, the IOI Regional Ocean Governance Course held in Malta trained over 200 mid-career professionals hailing for different countries contiguous to the Mediterranean, Black, Baltic and Caspian Seas. Similar IOI courses are held by different IOI Training Centres in Canada, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Thailand, China, Egypt, Brazil and Costa Rica. The Malta Training Course is organised by the IOI Malta Training Centre based at the University of Malta and directed by Prof. Alan Deidun from the Department of Geosciences.
Further information about the IOI Malta Training Centre can be gleaned from ioimaltacourse.org or by sending an email to the Course Manager on alan.deidun@um.edu.mt.
Further information about the IOI Malta Training Centre can be gleaned from ioimaltacourse.org or by sending an email to the Course Manager on alan.deidun@um.edu.mt.