Project’s title

Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia (MARE)

Project’s partner/ collaboration

Department of Water Resources, College of Environment and Natural Resources, Can Tho University

Sponsor/Donor

Erasmus+ Programme of European Commission (though the contract with University of Bremen, Germany) 

Total budged

Project’s period/duration

75.172 Euro

36 months (from 15/1/2020 to 14/1/2023)

Principal Investigator (PI)

Co-PI

Project’s member

Lê Anh Tuấn

-          Huỳnh Vương Thu Minh, coordinator

-          Võ Quốc Thành, secretary

-          Văn Phạm Đăng Trí, member

-          Nguyễn Đình Giang Nam, member

-          Lâm Văn Thịnh, member

Overall objective

 Specific objectives

The project aims to develop adaptive, end-user-oriented and internationally-relevant curricula to support sustainable management and governance of coastal and adjacent marine areas of partner countries.

The project will focus on the following priority issues:

-    Climate change and sea level rise

-    Coastal erosion, delta issues (especially in Vietnam and Egypt) and safety of physical infrastructure

-    Waste management

-    Marine biological resources, trade-offs of aquaculture

-    Coastal and offshore mining, oil and gas production

-    Urban sprawl and tourism

-    Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation

-    Sustainable livelihoods, ILK and traditional management practices.

Contents

The action will mostly focus on bachelor’s and master’s levels (revision of curricula, development of new courses and modernization of existing ones, launching of new specialization streams), however it will also address selected aspects of doctoral provision (development of multidisciplinary research agenda, development of organizational capacity for networking and joint research). The MARCO e-learning system will be developed in order to enable sharing and dissemination of learning contents across the project network; series of webinars for master’s and PhD students will be piloted and arranged as regular events; interactive e-courses with case studies’ collections will be developed for each of the priority areas.

Expected outcome

The capacity-building action will be supported by equipment and software acquisition for HEIs in partner countries, and by training for academic staff, PhD students, IT and administrative staff. The training events will be on multidisciplinary research methodology, research tools (in particular geospatial) and project priority issues, on curriculum development and teaching tools and methods, and on ICT issues.

Contact address

Le Anh Tuan

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College of Environment and Natural Resources, Can Tho University