MA and PhD Students, invited to apply to the CIVIS Interdisciplinary Summer School “Marine protected areas: current issues and challenges”

CIVIS announces the opening of the registration for the CIVIS Interdisciplinary Summer School “Marine protected areas: current issues and challenges” (Law – Oceanography – Geography – Ecology – Economics – History), organized by The Ocean Institute of AMU from 19 June to 23 June 2023.

Applicants should be MA and PhD students at one of the CIVIS member a working knowledge of French and English of at least B2 level. Applicants should send online their CV and a cover letter by the 10 May 10th 2023 here. The 5 selected students will be notified by the organizers.

A cross-cutting approach to current issues and challenges related to the conservation and management of marine protected areas: interdisciplinarity: oceanography, law, geography, marine ecology, economics, paleoceanography, sociology, biogeochemistry, history; varied programme: field excursions, classroom teaching, experiments, lectures; expert and diverse interlocutors: a summer school that relies on partnerships and privileged relationships between teacher-researchers and actors from the socio-economic world.

Themes addressed are:

• General presentation of the Calanques National Park and issues relating to MPAs (excursion and forward-looking workshop).
• Vulnerabilities, risks and pressures in a context of climate change.
• Management of fisheries resources.
• Marine pollution – managing plastic contamination.
• From conflict to compromise: reconciling activities within MPAs (excursion and course).

Objectives and target skills are to provide knowledge directly or indirectly related to the research themes or professional choices linked to the management issues of an MPA; understand and relate the fundamentals of different disciplines around a common object: the marine protected area; understand the complexity of management decisions and the plurality of methods, measures and interconnections concerning the management of marine protected areas; understand the variety of stakeholders and the different scales of governance involved in marine protected areas; adapt and actively participate in a variety of activities and work in interdisciplinary teams. 

This course is part of the European University of Ocean Sciences, a coordinated set of activities and programmes within CIVIS which explore vital questions for Europe’s marine and maritime environments.

Instructors within the course are professors and researchers from Aix-Marseille Université and the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography.

More details about the CIVIS Interdisciplinary Summer School “Marine protected areas: current issues and challenges” are available here.

CIVIS is a European University Alliance gathering 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Bucharest (Romania), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), University of Glasgow (UK), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) and University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 European Universities pilots, it brings together around half a million students and more than 70 000 staff members, including 37 400 academics and researchers.