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With Malta being a candidate for a seat on the UN Security Council for the 2023-24 term, the country is bound to be featured in their monthly newsletter.

For the November 2020 edition, the fourth newsletter of the Security Council, UM’s penned a blurb titled ‘Training the next generation of ocean practitioners’, in which he outlines the efforts being made by Malta to strengthen its already impressive capacity-building infrastructure.

“Malta holds a long-standing and peerless track record in the provision of training and capacity-building programmes on thematics which include ocean governance, climate change, SIDs-related issues, marine observations and oceanography and maritime law security”, wrote Prof. Deidun.

The five-week IOI Malta Regional Ocean Governance Course, co-organised with and accredited by the University of Malta, the one-year, full-time Masters in Ocean Governance offered by the IOI and the University of Malta, the one-year, full-time Masters in Applied Oceanography offered by UM, the part-time Master of Arts offered by the Islands and Small States Institute and the whole suite of long and short courses offered by the International Maritime Organisation, are among the initiatives mentioned by Prof. Deidun.

As , and the Training Centre Director, Prof. Deidun also mentioned the SEA-EU 6-member consortium, led by the UM along with another 5 coastal universities.

The newsletter can be accessed .