To forge meaningful career-building opportunities for ocean professionals from developing countries, a new partnership \u201cUnited Nations-Nippon Foundation Sustainable Ocean Programme\u201d will be launched at a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ-Nippon Foundation Fellowship Alumni High-Level Event on 7 June. The new three-year programme aims to provide over 200 nationals from developing countries with advanced training and research opportunities in a number of relevant disciplines, including marine science and management, to support effective ocean governance, including the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 14 on oceans. The event will be hosted by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Office of Legal Affairs, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea.<\/p>\n
Who:<\/strong> United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, the Nippon Foundation, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ-Nippon Foundation Fellowship Alumni, including ocean professionals and policy makers from developing countries, representatives of academic partner institutions<\/p>\n What:\u00a0<\/strong>Announcement of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ-Nippon Foundation Sustainable Ocean Programme at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ-Nippon Foundation Fellowship Alumni High-Level Event<\/strong><\/p>\n When:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday 7 June 2017, at 10-11 am (EDT)<\/p>\n Where:<\/strong> Conference Room 11, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters, New York<\/p>\n For more information on the Ocean Conference, please visit: https:\/\/oceanconference.un.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Media contact:<\/strong> Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters, New York, 7 June 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":27289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-below-water","category-news","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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