Founded by the late Professor Elisabeth Mann Borghese, the International Ocean Institute is a network of 25 regional operational centres with headquarters in Malta. Its mission is to promote education, training and research to enhance the peaceful uses of ocean space and its resources, their management and regulation, as well as the protection and conservation of the marine environment, guided by the concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind.
Activities
IOI’s activities and services include:
the training of hundreds of decision-makers and professionals, mainly from developing countries and countries in transition, through short and long duration interdisciplinary courses on ocean governance and on ocean and coastal management;
development work among coastal communities with the objective of improving livelihoods while restoring and preserving coastal ecology;
the implementation of IOI Ocean Learn, a system-wide programme for the coordination, delivery, quality assurance and development of the global partnership of IOI capacity-building activities, so as to provide for an interdisciplinary and comprehensive coverage of the subject areas;
information dissemination to NGOs and coastal communities through the global IOI networks and the IOI websites;
research on a variety of ocean-related subjects such as international and regional agreements and policies on oceans and the coastal zone, on regional and sub-regional cooperation, and on scientific and technological approaches to the sustainable management of living and non-living marine resources.
Type of organisation:
Non-governmental and business organizations
Established:
1972
Number of staff:
7 (headquarters and regional offices)
Head/Director:
President: Dr. Awni Behnam, Executive Director: Dr. Iouri Oliounine
Subtitle:
Office of the President
Cooperation
with UNEP, UNDP, IMO, UN/DOALOS, WMO, IUCN, UNITAR, UNU, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, etc.
