Marine Module Courses
BIP Marine Data Literacy
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Partner/Lecturers: UG/ Aleksandra Dudkowska, Gabriela Gic-Grusza
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This intensive course educates students on marine data sourcing, exploration, and valorisation, transforming data into valuable knowledge. The course highlights the importance of data in marine services, sustainable ocean development, and informed decision-making.
- Mode: Online + in presence
- Course type: Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) with an online course from 24th Feb to 25th April 2025 and an on-site practical course (physical mobility) from 10-18th May 2025 in Gdańsk, Poland
- ECTS: 3
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Maritime and Environmental Law: theory and practice
In this one day module you will learn about ship pollution and marine plastic pollution in a socio- and environmental legal context. The module consists of a morning of lectures and an in-depth excercise in the afternoon.
Application deadline: 8 November 2025
Partner/Lecturer: UBO/Dr HDR Adélie Pomade in collaboration with UNIST
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The main objective of this one day module is to learn about ship pollution and the socio-legal approach to marine plastic pollution (lecture part in the morning) as well as to practise the participatory principle in Environmental Law at European level in an in-depth exercise part (in the afternoon).
- Mode : Hybrid
- Course type : Lectures (8:30 – 12:30 CEST) and exercise (13:30 – 17:00). The two parts can be followed independent of each other.
- Target audience: Master students
The full course description can be downloaded here
Metal Contaminants – Metals in the Ocean
The module provides a comprehensive insight into the topic of marine metal contaminants. Students will study the transport, fate, and speciation of metals, alongside bioavailability, bioaccumulation, and detoxification mechanisms. A key focus is on the impact of activities such as deep-sea mining and ocean alkalinity enhancement.
Application Deadline: 28 September 2025
ECTS: 5
Partner / Lecturer: CAU / Prof. Sylvia Sander
Mode: Hybrid
Course dates: 14 Oct – 16 Dec 2025, including hybrid live lectures and exercises every Tuesday, 15:30-17:30 CEST/CET, Video recorded lectures provided every Friday.
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GEOMAR-iMAGE CREATE Seafloor Mapping School
Training in remote predictive geological mapping techniques with a focus on seafloor geology and GIS application. The module consists of online lectures and practical exercises with GIS in cooperation with additional 10 iMAGE-CREATE students from Canada. Independent work on the mapping project and report writing is expected.
Application Closed.
ECTS: 5
Lecturer/Partner: Prof. Sylvia Sander/CAU/GEOMAR in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, CA
Mode: Online (Zoom)
Date and Time: 15th to 26th Sept 2025, from 14:00-18:00 CEST
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Introduction to Ocean Sustainability
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Host partner/Lecturer: CAU / Dr Nina Keul
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- The module will concentrate on integrated research areas that focus on the grand challenges faced in attaining ocean sustainability. Students will attend a lecture where lecturers of different SEA-EU universities will present current topics on ocean sustainability centring on Ocean Food, Ocean Floor Resources, Ocean Ethics, Ocean Disasters, The Law of the Seas, and “Blue Economy”.
- Course type: Semester course with 15 live sessions
- Schedule details/times: Wednesdays 16-18 and Fridays 12-14 CEST on the following dates: 16.4., 7.5., 9.5., 14.5., 16.5. (13-16 h instead), 21.5., 23.5., 28.5., 4.6. (14-16h instead), 6.6., 18.6., 20.6., 25.6., 2.7., 4.7.
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Biodiversity and Biogeography
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Partner/Lecturer: NORD/Prof. Mark Costello
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Course type: Intensive module with 6 sessions spread over 2 weeks end of April/May 2025 including lectures, practical exercises and self-study assignments.
Biogeography is the science of how the Earth’s history and present environment determines speciation, habitat diversity and biodiversity patterns. It provides both a theoretical basis for understanding how biodiversity evolved and has applications in deciding where to have nature reserves, the spread of invasive species, and predicting the effects of climate change.
Participants will learn how to use leading resources of biodiversity informatics for individually selected species of interest (e.g. threatened, charismatic, important ones for food, pest or keystone species).
Full description can be downloaded here:
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Maritime and Environmental Law: theory and practice
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Partner/Lecturer: UBO/Dr HDR Adélie Pomade in collaboration with UNIST
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The main objective of this one day module is to teach about the ship pollution and the socio-legal approach to marine plastic pollution (lecture part in the morning) as well as to practise the participatory principle in Environmental Law at European level in an in-depth exercise part (in the afternoon).
- Mode : Hybrid
- Course type : Lectures (8:30 – 12:30 CEST) and exercise (13:30 – 16:30). The two parts can be followed independent of each other.
- Target audience: Master students
The full course description can be downloaded here:
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Global Ocean Governance Framework and Managing our Relations with the Ocean
Partner/Lecturer: UM/Prof. Alan Deidun in collaboration with the International Ocean Institute (IOI)
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The main objective of the module is to be able to identify current ocean governance scenarios and their global and regional challenges, as well as to critically describe overarching ocean governance issues, including the maritime areas of jurisdiction and control. Additionally, the main EU Directives concerning marine environmental protection will be taught.
- Mode : Hybrid
- Course type : Lectures, seminars and an independent study project as well as one fieldtrip on 14th Nov 11-13:00 CET (ONLY for those onsite in Malta! NOT possible for virtual participants!
Full module description available to download here:
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Metal Contaminants – Metals in the Ocean
The module provides a comprehensive insight into the topic of marine metal contaminants. Students will study the transport, fate, and speciation of metals, alongside bioavailability, bioaccumulation, and detoxification mechanisms. A key focus is on the impact of activities such as deep-sea mining and ocean alkalinity enhancement.
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ECTS: 5
Partner / Lecturer: CAU / Prof. Sylvia Sander
Mode: Hybrid
Course dates: 15 Oct – 17 Dec, hybrid live seminars each Tues, 15:30-17:30 CEST/CET
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Full course description available for download here:
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Seafloor Mapping School
The GEOMAR-iMAGE CREATE Seafloor Mapping School provides training in remote predictive geological mapping techniques with a focus on seafloor geology and GIS application. Application closed.
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The GEOMAR-iMAGE CREATE Seafloor Mapping School provides intensive introductory training in seafloor geology and remote predictive geological mapping techniques. Students are introduced to data compilation and integration, accessing data repositories, how to process different data sets such as multibeam bathymetry and geophysical data, how to set up map projects in a GIS with the relevant data management tools and editors, and how to interpret the compiled data in terms of the geological attributes of the seafloor. Students learn how to construct a geological map legend, create relevant map layers, including regional time-stratigraphic models, and undertake geodynamic reconstructions of large areas of the oceans.
The first four days of the Mapping School are an introduction to marine geology and seabed mapping. The remaining 5-6 days consist of practical exercises, lectures, and discussions.
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Course Type: On-line lectures and practical exercises with GIS. Independent work on the mapping project and report writing is expected.
Participation: 10 days x 6-8 hrs/day.
ECTS: 5
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