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[...] [...] to recognise the top student in NTU’s Mechanical [...]

[...] [...] and Stanford University in the United States of America, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, Johannesburg University in South Africa, Pisa University [...] [...]

In 2009, SEAFO agreed to establish a special requirements fund to help developing State members participate in SEAFO and enhance their ability to conserve and manage the fisheries resources.

[...] [...] implement and exchange results produced by pilot-sites for small-scale water treatment and artificial recharge in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority, (4) capacity enhancement for the Water and Sewerage Authority and the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago.

Some universities set up board of directors and invite representatives from industrial sector to join in, working together in the discussion and consultation on vital problems such as direction for school running, course settings, quality of teaching staff, contents and methods of teaching, practical base, student enrollment and job assignment, etc. For example, Suzhou Industrial [...] [...]

Requests were also received from, and library services utilized by, individual researchers, a number of embassies and permanent missions based in Jamaica and academic and research institutions in other countries, including Xiamen University, China; the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research; the University of Auckland Library, New Zealand; Fenners Chambers, Cambridge, United Kingdom; the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología of the National Autonomous University of Mexico; the Caribbean Court of Justice; the UNEP office in Jamaica; the National Environment and Planning Agency, the Maritime Authority and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica; students from the University of Technology, the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica; the Caribbean Maritime Institute; Allan Kirton; and the permanent missions of China and Brazil in Jamaica.

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[...] [...] Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Ltd; (11) Mevas Bank Ltd; (12) Nanyang Commercial Bank, Ltd; (13) Public Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd; (14) Shanghai [...] [...]

[...] [...] Diversity, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNDP, UNESCO, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and WHO) and seven other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations (CARICOM, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the Sea Level Rise Foundation, the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat, the World Conservation Union and the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme).

[...] [...] Indian Ocean, Oceanography studies of Southern Ocean, Delineation of Continental Shelf demarcation, Multibeam Swath Bathymetric Surveys in EEZ of India, Vessel Management of ORV Sagar Kanya and other [...]

[...] [...] Protection (European Commission); International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; International Committee on the International Global Monitoring Aerospace System Project Implementation; International Organization for Standardization; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Pacific Islands Telecommunications [...] [...]

In the Asia-Pacific region, professional engineering networks were supported, assistance was given to regional universities to build capacity for university-private sector partnerships, and a knowledge sharing scheme was created between the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Timor-Leste and universities in other Asian [...]

[...] [...] marine scientific research and the acquisition of marine data require large and expensive facilities, such as research ships, powerful computers and the sophisticated instruments [...]

[...] [...] mapping biodiversity resources, coastal zones, land use, wasteland and wetlands; monitoring air quality, desertification, droughts, food security, deforestation, the ionosphere and weather; oceanography; rural development and urban planning; and search and rescue efforts.

African science and management capacities were strengthened to deal with integrated environment and sustainable development issues, notably through: ERAIFT (where a cohort of 30 African students from 10 countries is continuing its studies in the MSc programme); collaboration between networks and partners in the Brazilian Amazon, Democratic Republic of Congo (ERAIFT) and Indonesia (as outlined in the 2011-2013 work plan for South-South cooperation for integrated management of tropical [...] [...]