SEA-LEARN Strengthening and Sustaining Education for Marine Environmental Awareness and Resource Conservation

Through two-way student and staff mobilities between Belém and Oslo, the SEA-LEARN project will develop sustainable courses and student exchanges at the partner universities to better understanding the health and sustainability of marine fisheries and fish farms using environmental DNA methods. This educational infrastructure will have meaningful, long-term societal impact on the partner countries since participants will learn the necessary competencies to evaluate the organisms that are effecting, and are affected by, aquaculture in the open oceans and along coastal areas. The PhD students will also learn theoretical and empirical approaches to research supervision and assessment, and the MSc students will also learn how to present their work not only to other researchers but to school-age children as well. As project stakeholders, representatives from marine- and fish-health companies and institutes will give talks to the students about what they and their organization do, as well as discuss the sought-after competences and skills that they are looking for when recruiting new staff scientists. SEA-LEARN will result in the training and exchanges of 64 MSc students, 24 PhD students, numerous local school children, and multiple staff members.