UN e-SEA

Under IUML, Sea Sciences Digital University « UN e-SEA » offers easy access to master’s level e-learning training programs for both students and professionals worldwide.UN e-SEA training programmes are produced by teachers, researchers, educational designers and managers of maritime activities. Short term courses are derived from the master’s teaching programme. They are provided to individuals independently from master’s degree programmes or within the framework of a partnership, an university, an employing organisation or operator dealing with the skills-building of managers, engineers, elected officials or with local government employees in the field of maritime activity. These training courses are based on autonomous education through distance learning techniques. In addition to this, exchange between trainees is set up by means of collaborative tools, virtual teaching, videoconferencing and face-to-face group meetings. Since 2016, thanks to its growing international network, UN e-SEA aims at federating teachers and profesionals from various topics and contexts around short operational digital training contents, in order to facilitate the emergence of solutions from training exchanges. Its alumni community produced more than 40 studies and thesis about the coastal and maritime context in West Africa, which could be shared towards a wider community. Short term courses are derived from the master’s teaching programme. They are provided to individuals independently from master’s degree programmes or within the framework of a partnership, an university, an employing organisation or operator dealing with the skills-building of managers, engineers, elected officials or with local government employees in the field of maritime activity. These training courses are based on autonomous education through distance learning techniques. In addition to this, exchange between trainees is set up by means of collaborative tools, virtual teaching, videoconferencing and face-to-face group meetings. UN e-SEA develops masters degree through distance learning in Sea Sciences : Geography and Maritime Spatial Planning , Law and Maritime Safety, Marine Civil Engineering , Maritime Economics. UN e-SEA develops a joint master degree MAREENE with NTNU (Norwey) and Aalborg University (Denmark) for training structural reliability, monitoring and maintenance specialists in the field of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE). At the end of this program, students are able to use and quantify the added value of non-destructive testing techniques and SHM methods applied to offshore renewable energy structures.