The Coastal And Marine Sustainability Enacted (COME) Summer School in UTP and UniKL-MIMET (15 August 2022 – 28 August 2022). 

The COME! summer school was a vibrant mixture of interactive sessions, field trips, and group work in a unique setting, designed to give participants hands-on project and research experience with a range of issues related to marine, coastal and delta sustainability with a focus on novel and innovative approaches and methodologies. After an introductory day with an overall overview of sustainability challenges and the state of art in marine & coastal science, policy and management, during the week 1 the students followed the plenary sessions or one of parallel sessions normally exploring marine or coastal/delta issues. The second week focused on the interactions with stakeholders – business, public bodies and NGOs engaged in management & governance activities over marine and coastal resources. To support in-class learning, the educational process was also included few field excursions. ​

The Summer School is organised under Erasmus+ CBHE projects MARE ”Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia” (https://mare-project.net). The School COME! COASTAL AND MARINE SUSTAINABILITY ENACTED is co-organised and co-funded by a consortium of international partners financed by the CBHE projects MARE - Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia by the EU Erasmus+ programme (https://mare-project.net): Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS & Universiti Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). The organization is supported by Erda RTE CV (the Netherlands, http://erda-rte.eu/), Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia), University of Catania (Italy), IRBIM-CNR (Italy), and University of Bremen (Germany). The themes covered in this COME Summer School are coastal and sustainable development, resilience of coastal communities, coastal ecological research, marine biological resources, and integrative sustainable management & governance. 

The School started and finished in Seri Iskandar, the seat of the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS; most of the stakeholder sessions (as well as supporting sessions by academic faculty) was then hosted in the premises of Universiti Kuala Lumpur in Lumut. The COME! summer school was a valuable learning experience for everyone, but having a great time is also a summer essential. All the participants were students and young experts. 

 Group Photo of COME! Coastal And Marine Sustainability Enacted Summer School 

 Laboratory Visit to the Department of Petroleum Engineering of UTP 

 Laboratory Visit to the Dep​​​artment of Petroleum Engineering of UTP 

 Lecture by Gs. Dr. Muhammad Hafeez Bin Jeofry, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia 

   Lecture by Dr Le Anh Tuan, Can Tho University, Vietnam 

 Educational Fieldwork & Siti​​​​​ Visits to Seri Tanjung Pinang 2, Tg. Tokong, Penang 

 Educational Fieldwork & Siti Visits to Seri Tanjung Pinang 2, Tg. Tokong, Penang 

 Educational Vi​sit to Ipo​​h 

Educational Visit to TT5 Tanjung Tualang Tin Dredge