4 February 2010. The Aquarium of Donostia-San Sebastian yesterday welcomed the twenty students participating in the fourth edition of the European Master in Marine Environment and Resources. Although the programme started last September and lasts 12 months, yesterday saw the start of the part that the students will be doing in the Aquarium where they will be until 13 February. The course is being given by the AZTI-Tecnalia technology centre and the Universities of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Southampton and Bordeaux 1. Contamination and health of the ocean, climate change, fisheries and other marine resources, biodiversity conservation, or coast management with the consequences of harbour and beach dredging are some of the subjects and questions that will be prominent in the training programme of this edition. Twenty students from the Basque Country, Valencia, France –and its département of Guadalupe in the French Antilles–, Italy and Ecuador have enrolled on this course that will go on for ten days in the capital of Gipuzkoa; the students will be attending classes given by 27 scientists and researchers from all over the world.

The Master’s programme –which will be given in English– began last September in Bordeaux with a first semester of general instruction in oceanography and marine environment, shared between the School of Ocean and Earth Science of the University of Southampton, and the Marine Station at Arcachon of the University of Bordeaux. Now it will continue until the summer in Donostia where it will be made up of more specific questions both at the Science and Technology Faculty of the UPV/EHU and at AZTI-Tecnalia. The third semester will be held in Southampton, under the auspices of the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) in the UK and its facilities and scientific vessels. That is where the students will gain a global perspective of the marine environment and its resources.

While in Donostia a series of seminars will be held, and pieces of research work produced by previous students will be made known. The course in the capital of Gipuzkoa will end on February 13 with a cinema forum open to the public and which will be showing “The Old Man and the Sea” in its original version; it will include a debate on the Basques’ link with the marine environment.

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