Two OECS college students graduated with PhDs from the World Maritime College (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden on Saturday, Oct. 28. They have been among the many graduands who participated in commencement workouts on the Malmö Dwell Live performance Corridor in Sweden.
The World Maritime College is a world-renowned tertiary establishment specialising in post-graduate coaching and levels in maritime specialised areas, together with worldwide maritime legislation and coverage; maritime vitality administration; transport administration and logistics; port administration; ocean sustainability, governance and administration; and maritime security and environmental administration.
The OECS college students who graduated from WMU on Saturday have been emblematic of the sturdy and helpful programme of cooperation that exists between the WMU and the OECS Fee. The OECS has lengthy recognised the necessity to harness the total potential of the blue financial system with its potential to reinforce financial alternatives for OECS Member States’ economies whereas safeguarding ocean and coastal ecosystems and long-term sustainable improvement.
The Jap Caribbean Regional Oceans Coverage (ECROP) is a key instrument in advancing OECS member states in direction of a profitable blue financial system, and the WMU gives necessary help within the type of technical help and capacity-building.
The ‘Closing the Circle’ programme is a capacity-building programme which addresses the problems of marine particles, sargassum and marine spatial planning analysis, with a selected geographic concentrate on the Jap Caribbean area.
The programme, which helps PhD pupil scholarships, is funded and supported by the Nippon Basis and was collectively launched by the Nippon Basis and the World Maritime College-salsa kawa International Ocean Institute in January 2020.
The programme is delivered by the ‘Closing the Circle’ group at world Maritime College in partnership with the OECS Fee. The present analysis group includes 4 PhD candidates: Roxanne Graham of Grenada; Tricia Lovell of Antigua and Barbuda; Kristie Alleyne of Barbados; and Kristal Ambrose of the Bahamas. The assorted theses offered by the candidates included such matters as an evaluation of pelagic sargassum at the moment impacting the jap Caribbean.
Talking on the achievement of the graduates, Dr. Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien, Assistant Professor at WMU-Sasakawa International Ocean Institute, mentioned:
“The 4 current PhDs have demonstrated an unwavering dedication to their respective fields and have all the time seen the broader context and affect of their work all through their analysis journey. Their distinctive achievements function a sworn statement for the transformative energy of schooling and we all know they are going to carry their data and expertise ahead to the good thing about everybody round them. We want to thank the Nippon Basis for his or her imaginative and prescient and help in realising this mission in addition to the OECS Fee and Member States for his or her extraordinary collaboration and help in facilitating the work below the mission.”
The WMU- Sasakawa International Ocean Institute has ongoing consultations and initiatives with regional actors just like the OECS Fee, the UN Atmosphere Caribbean Programme, CARICOM, the Centre for Useful resource Administration and Environmental Research (CERMES) of the UWI and the IMO-FAO GloLitter Challenge, amongst others.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the WMU and the OECS Fee in April 2023, which gives a framework for continued cooperation within the subject of maritime and ocean affairs. Areas of collaboration embrace (i) change, schooling, and coaching, (ii) analysis, innovation, technical and scientific cooperation, and (iii) communication, consciousness, and outreach.
In recognition of this necessary partnership and the excellent achievements of the OECS graduates, the graduation workouts in Malmö have been attended by HE Colin Murdoch, OECS ambassador accredited to the UN and different worldwide organisations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ambassador Murdoch held discussions with WMU college, looking for to outline particular actions in direction of implementing the MOU, together with co-hosting occasions at varied applicable fora to showcase the partnership’s successes. He additionally met with the profitable OECS graduates and their households and congratulated them on their achievements.
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