During the 2nd Steering Group meeting of the Ocean Infohub Project in October 2021, Mr Harrison ONGANDA was elected as the new chair.
The entire Steering Group is grateful to Mr Frederico NOGUEIRA for his contributions as Chair in the first 2 years of the project.
The OTGA secretariat is seeking for a Instructional Designer that can provide professional support, advice and training to support the OTGA e-Learning system and to facilitate the learning outcomes for OTGA training activities.
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Deadline to apply : 16 January 2022 Extended till 19 January 2022
The IOC/GOOS and the IOC/IODE secretariat are looking for a consultant Data and Information Management and this within the context of the GOOS-
IODE ‘Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS), the EC Horizon 2020 projects EuroSea and JERICO S3.
More information can be found here
Deadline to apply : 16 January 2022 extended till 20 January 2022
The 2nd Session of the Steering Group for the OceanTeacher Global Academy took place online between 16-19 November 2021. During the meeting the Regional and Specialized Training Centres reported on their achievements. During 2021, OTGA successfully organised 32 online courses, of which 6 were later adapted to self-paced mode. OTGA has also hosted 5 other courses with external partners. Over 3250 people applied to attend online training courses with 700 learners successfully completing courses. Course languages included English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The Steering Group decided to accept the application to host an OTGA Specialized Training Centre from the IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae at University of Copenhagen, which has already been delivering HAB Identification and Certification training using the OTGA eLearning Platform. This brings the total number of OTGA Regional and Specialized Centres to seventeen.
The Group discussed the OTGA work plan for 2022 with some 70 courses proposed across the OTGA network. The OTGA Secretariat will consult with the IOC programmes and regions to discuss priorities and identify common/recurrent topics to prioritize the courses to be organised in 2022.
The Steering Group re-elected Udaya Bhaskar (RTC-India) as SG Chair for the next intersessional period.
This revised edition includes changes requested by the IODE Management Group to address the following issues: (i) all projects should develop work plans that have clear performance indicators and measurable deliverables, and (ii) the project reporting template should align with the work plan and which would allow for more straightforward evaluation by the IODE Management Group.
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