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EMB WG Marine Graduate Training - 2nd meeting (14-15 January, Brussels)

The EMB Working Group on Marine Graduate Training meets today and tomorrow in Brussels for its second meeting. The working  group aims to shape the future of European marine science education and training. Key activities include critically evaluating current training practices and frameworks while assessing and proposing new mechanisms and recommendations towards innovative training instruments that identify and accommodate the needs of society, policy, industry and young scientists themselves. In an interactive stakeholder session this afternoon, representatives from European and international higher education training initiatives will come together with industrial representatives as potential employers of marine and maritime graduates to discuss current and future training needs for the 21st century ocean scientist. Representatives from the European Commission (DG Research & Innovation and DG MARE) will also present on challenges and perspectives on marine training with particular relevance to the EU's Blue Growth agenda. 

Picture features (top row, left to right): Kate Larkin (EMB), Luís Pinheiro (University of Aveiro), Pauhla McGrane (Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology), Jeanine Olsen (University of Groningen), Guillaume Roullet (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), Tim Deprez (University of Ghent), Bev Mackenzie (Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology UK), Oyvind Fiksen (University of Bergen), (bottom row left to right): Noémie Wouters (EMB), Maurizio d'Alcalà (Statione Zoologica Anton Dohrn), Magda Vincx (University of Ghent), Avan Antia (University of Kiel), Marja Koski (Technical University of Denmark).