Universities Consortium Panel - UCP
The Universities Consortium Panel (UCP) is designed to provide a framework within which those Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) who currently exist or are in development can exchange information, ideas and best practice and lay the groundwork for more direct collaborations as and where appropriate.
The UCP can also provide advice to other national or regional University groups interested in forming consortia and becoming EMB members.
Background
Across Europe a number of Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) have formed distinct consortia to bring together institutions with interests in marine science. Under the auspices and with the support of the European Marine Board (EMB), there has been a desire amongst some of these country or regionally based consortia to explore areas of mutual interest with regards to both research and education in the broadest sense.
Panel Objectives
To create a working group within the EMB to:
- Establish a forum for HEI consortia that exist or are in development to meet
- Help identify and share best practice with respect to the governance and operation of these consortia
- Identify and share opportunities for HEI consortia to collaborate across the EU or internationally
- Actively seek to secure resources and funding to support graduate student and specifically PhD student training
- Promote each other’s consortiums both nationally and internationally
- Identify where the respective resources and networks that exist within these consortia can add value to existing and future EMB activities
Meetings
UCP meetings are typically held alongside EMB Plenary Meetings:
- 23 October 2018, Trieste, Italy
- 19 October 2017, Galway, Ireland
- 27 April 2017, Tenerife, Spain
- 20 October 2016, Glasgow, UK
- 28 April 2016, Sopot, Poland
Panel Members
- Panel Chair - Mark James, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), United Kingdom
- Yves-Marie Paulet and Dominique Simon, Universités Marines (UM), France
- Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, CoNISMa, Italy
- Jeremy Gault and Anthony Grehan, Irish Marine Universities Consortium (IMUC), Ireland
- Beatriz Balino, Norwegian Marine University Consortium (NMUC), Norway
Contact at European Marine Board Secretariat: Paula Kellett Email