From 15:00 pm to 17:30 pm on the 24th March,2021, online meeting of the main coordinator and other partner institution was hold to discuss and exchage information of MARE project activities.
The meeting has the participation of:
- Dr. Anton Shkaruba (Estonian University of Life Sciences)
- Dr. Le Anh Tuan, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Giang Nam, Dr. Lam Van Thinh, Dr. Vo Quoc Thanh, Ms. Le Thi Thuy Duy, and Dr. Huynh Vuong Thu Minh (Can Tho University, Vietnam)
- Dr. Thoa Le Thi Kim (Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment)
- Dr. Tran The Nam, Dr. Tran Duc Phu and Ms. Dinh Thi Thuy Hang (Vietnam Maritime University)
- Dr. Phan Minh Thu (Vietnam Institute of Oceanography)
Discussion and action points:
• Reporting and dissemination of revised courses
As per Erasmus+ CBHE rules, ALL the revised courses need to be taken up but ALL the partner country institutions. VN partners have to start ASAP looking for options to pick up contents of all the revised courses offered by other VN partners; as the next round VN partner will look how to use the revised courses developed by MY partners, and will offer their revised courses to MY partners to consider for picking up.
• Posting e-courses to eMare (currently in the main project website)
By the end of April 2021, all the partners will produce and submit syllabi on MARE template (see the relevant Igor’s message of March 24, 2021), ppt presentations of course contents (see an example: http://intense.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/intese_models-for-env-...), and summary tables with the status of their courses offer that shall include the following headings: status of accreditation and teaching, no. of students, no. of ECTS. revised/new, %of new contents for revised.
• Quality assurance of new and revised curricula
All the partners bear in mind that for all the new and revised courses they have to run student evaluations after the end of the course, and to submit evaluation reports alongside with other curriculum documents for each academic year when the course was run.
• Development of 6 interactive (MOOC-like) e-courses for MARE main topics
As the next stage of curriculum development, we have to produce 6 interactive (MOOC-like) e-courses covering MARE main topics – (1) Coastal science and management, (2) Delta science and management, (3) Area-based management, (4) Fisheries, seabed resources & food security, (5) Offshore exploration & mining, (6) Marine pollution control and management. VN partners shall volunteer to lead 2 or 3 of such courses addressing one of the key topics; all the courses are planned as a joint effort of MY and VN partners with a strong contribution from EU partners.
• Vietnam national stakeholder cooperation platform over MARE topics
VN partners will discuss a way to establish a sort of formal cooperation links (al least in a form of MoU) between MARE academic partners and non-academic (stakeholder) partners from within and (in particular) outside the formal project partnership in Vietnam. We further would need to demonstrate that this is a functional AND sustainable arrangement e.g. through joint events, involvement in curriculum review, teaching, internships etc. An alignment to existing networks also can be an option, if we will be able to demonstrate that a substantial input from MARE is taking place and duly recognized; such an option was voiced by Ho of MCD, so Thoa will talk her and ask about the details, and if that option won’t be find feasible by other VN partners, the partnership will make lists of stakeholders and start approaching them. The first steps towards the establishment of the cooperation platform (the agreed document describing the platform and its functions, and first stakeholder partner committed to join) shall be completed before the end of May 2021.
• Strengthened institutional links between MARE partners and sustainable basis for future cooperation
This shall include a series of bilateral MoUs between partners setting up arrangements for mobility, joint research and teaching etc., surveys and dissemination of potential master & PhD supervisors for MARE-related topics, and catalogues of research and experimental facilities potentially available for sharing within the partnership. VN partners will draft the text of the MoU, and submit it to legal departments at their universities by the end of April.
At the meantime VN partners start inventories of research and experimental facilities potentially available for sharing within the partnership for joint research; at example of such an inventory can be found here http://intense.network/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/mn_num_intense_sharing..., and to identify the names of potential PhD and MSc/MA supervisors, by MARE topics (see here some examples http://sunraise.sfu-kras.ru/community/faculty, except that in MARE we need longer lists and categorise everyone by topics).