Aqua-tnet: Thematic Network in Aquaculture, Fisheries & Aquatic

Resources Management

LINQ 2013

John Bostock, University of Stirling (Coordinator)

Context:

Most globally

traded food

commodity!

GROWTH OF AQUACULTURE • Rising demand but static production from capture fisheries

• 50% of seafood is now from aquaculture • Fastest growing animal protein sector • Aquaculture employs around 11 million people worldwide

• 80% of production is in Asia

INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE NEEDS • Technology intensive (engineering, bioscience)

• Complex environmental interactions • Policy and planning implications • Business management • Markets and economics

Aqua-tnet At A Glance

Aqua-tnet is Europe’s only multidisciplinary Education Network in the field of Aquaculture, Fisheries and

Aquatic Resources Management

Since 1996

2011 - 2014

EC: €600.000

Supported by

AquaTT

(Ireland)

Coordinator:

Stirling

University (UK)

Aqua-tnet At A Glance

Principle aim:

“.....is to support the progress of the European aquaculture, fisheries and aquatic resources

management sector towards the EC policy goal of greater and sustainable output by stimulating and supporting innovation through enhanced lifelong

learning opportunities”

Aqua-tnet – Activity Areas

Aqua-tnet – WP1, MSc

Collaborating on MSc teaching materials through technical case studies and country reports.

Next steps:

-Sharing teaching activities

-Collaborative teaching activities

-Interdisciplinary collaboration?

Aqua-tnet – WP2, Phd

Collaborating on PhD specialist training courses that will be useful to a range of PhD students in working in this field.

Promotes student and staff mobility e.g. through an online mobility platform and practical guidance documents

Aqua-tnet – WP3, Mobility

Researches generic skill requirements within the sector, identifies effective training practices and develops appropriate support materials

Aqua-tnet – WP4, Generic Skills

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Aqua-tnet – WP5, Innovative Lifelong Learning

Subgroup A-Lifelong Learning Pathways

Subgroup B-Curriculum Frameworks

Subgroup C-Innovative Tools & Methods

5A) Lifelong Learning Pathways

Analyse articulation between

different educational sectors,

especially linkages between

formal and informal learning

and how to interrelate

European tools such as EQF,

ECVET, EQAVET and ECTS

Contribute to the setting up of

the ECVET system within the

EQF (e.g. previous VALLA

project)

Promotion of LLL in the sector

e.g. dissemination of EU

policy, research findings and

guidelines

5B) Curriculum Frameworks Keep up to date with EC policy

documents and guidelines, e.g.

the European Universities’ Charter

on Lifelong Learning and the

SIRUS and ALLUME projects.

Explore/promote implementation

of Lifelong Learning Guidelines by

Aqua-tnet partners.

Build on earlier work (WAVE

Project) defining sectoral

competences; Changing curricula

needs, flexibility in curricula;

quality standards; updating

TUNING template

5C) Innovative Tools & Methods

Research and

promote the use of

innovative tools and

methods through

guides and provision

of training courses

Promote the open

sharing of digital

learning objects,

establishing a

repository where

appropriate

Develop vocationally

oriented language

learning tools

Aqua-tnet – WP6, Stakeholder Engagement

STUDENTS INDUSTRY

RESEARCH

Aqua-tnet – On the Net

Web site

Monthly Newsletter

LinkedIn Group

Facebook Group

Diigo Group

Flickr Group

www.aquatnet.com

Contact us

Thank you for your attention

Email: info@aquatnet.com

Website: www.aquatnet.com

http://www.slideshare.net/jbostock/aqua-tnet-project-overview