MARE in general aims to promote sustainable governance & management of coastal, delta & marine (CDM) socio-ecological systems in Malaysia & Vietnam and adjacent waters through ICT-enhanced tertiary education linked to labour markets & wider stakeholder circles. This aim will be achieved through the following objectives:
1. To revise and upgrade selected CDM-relevant for undergraduate and postgraduate CDM programs in PIs to make them end-user-oriented & policy-relevant, and develop 6 modules addressing CDM-related hotspots, that can be used interchangeably in tertiary & LLL education.
2. To develop shared MARE open education environment platform & online training services of the new generation for qualitative improvement of the education process & academic workflow support among universities & stakeholders across the PCs & EU.
3. To create sustainable feedback mechanisms to end-users, ensuring adaptive & practice-relevant teaching contents, knowledge co-production opportunities and stakeholder support to post-project course development & teaching.
4. To develop capacity for academic mobility, shared experimental facilities and joint research by PIs & beyond.
MARE brings to the PC universities novel tools & methods used by international research communities, and creates the contents reflecting on CDM issues from a variety of contexts. In addition to quality curriculum contents; it also creates innovative ICT-based management system for teaching, learning & research training, and builds institutional mechanisms to engage stakeholders with research & education to improve the relevance of educational provision to the society.
Duration of Project
5 January 2020 - 14 January 2023 (3 years)
Funder
Erasmus+ Programme, a European Union (EU) funding under the capacity building in higher education action. The grant amount received is €69,995.
Role of UTP in the Project
UTP can offer an integrated learning experience through MOOCS. The curricula and e-learning can be extended to be part of open learning. The relevant courses can be integrated into MOOCS which is accessible by the public too.
UTP as the host in Summer School programme.
Project Kick-Off Meeting
MARE project is lead by Professor Ir. Dr Shaharin Anwar Sulaiman from Mechanical Engineering Department.
University of Bremen, Germany (18 February 2020 – 20 February 2020)
The project kick-off meeting, attended by all 13 partner universities from Malaysia, Vietnam, Italy, Estonia and Germany was conducted from 18 February 2020 to 20 February 2020 at University of Bremen, Germany. The universities involved from Malaysia are Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.
From Vietnam, there are Ho Chi Minh University of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam Maritime University, Can Tho University, Centre for Marine Life Conservation and Community Development, and Institute of Oceanography Vietnam. The partner universities from Italy are University of Catania and National Research Council of Italy, whereas Estonia is represented by the Estonian University of Life Sciences. During the meeting, the roles and responsibilities of each partner university and the project workplans were discussed and clarified.
Partner Organisations
There are 13 partner organisations involving 5 countries in this project.
| Partner Organisations |
Official Logo |
Germany
1) University of Bremen (Project Coordinator) |  |
Malaysia
2) Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS |  |
| 3) Universiti Kuala Lumpur |  |
| 4) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |  |
| 5) Universiti Malaysia Terengganu |  |
Vietnam
6) Ho Chi Minh University of Natural Resources and Environment |  |
| 7) Vietnam Maritime University |  |
| 8) Can Tho University |  |
| 9) Centre for Marine Life Conservation and Community Development |  |
| 10) Institute of Oceanography Vietnam |  |
Estonia
11) Estonian University of Life Sciences |  |
Italy
12) University of Catania |  |
| 13) National Research Council of Italy |  |
