January 2021 ANNUAL NATIONAL WEBMINAR ON MARINE GEOLOGY

1.0 OBJECTIVE
To propose an engagement planning with the stakeholders through series of webinar and sharing session with collaboration between other higher learning institution focusing on the and theme of Coastal, Marine and Delta.
2.0 BACKGROUND
The effectiveness of the MARE Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia Grant not only measured via the amount of project conducted but also the involvement and the response from the respective stakeholder as a tool to counter measure the effectiveness of the program. The engagement and feedback from the stakeholder will be one of the critical aspects under the MARE Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia Grant.
To get the feedback, a series of webinar and sharing session were initially planned and set between four (4) higher learning institutions that share the same interest and aspiration with the MARE Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia Grant program. The institution involves include Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM, Kuantan) and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM, Perlis). Each institution will organize the event in turn. The speakers will be selected among the piers and the session will be open with free access to all.

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9-10 December 2020 International Webinar on Marine Environment: Facilitating Marine Environmental Awareness through Research and Education

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has proudly hosted an International Webinar on Marine Environment: Facilitating Marine Environmental Awareness through Research and Education. This webinar was jointly organized by Marine Technology Center, School of Civil Engineering and School of Education, UTM. The webinar reached 2.3K views in FB Live session.
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Purpose: To spread the word about MARE project and obtaining the latest knowledge about maritime environment from the stakeholders

Webinar Series – MARE

Report of MARE Webinar organized by UTM

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9-10 December 2020 International Webinar on Marine Environment: Facilitating Marine Environmental Awareness through Research and Education

From 9 to 10 December 2020, the Marine Technology Center, School of Civil Engineering and School of Education, Malaysia has  co-hosted the International Webinar on Marine Environment: Facilitating Marine Environmental Awareness through Research and Education.

This webinar is part of activities conducted under an Erasmus project, Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia (MARE) , which is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union with partners from Germany, Malaysia, Estonia, Italy, and Vietnam.

Dr. Le Thi Kim Thoa, from Department of marine resources management, Ho Chi Minh city University of Natural resources and Environment, Vietnam has delivered  the Keynote on sharing overall MARE implementation in Vietnam.

https://www.facebook.com/engineering.utm.my/posts/2829963933948023

Date: 9th  December 2020 (Wednesday)
2.00-4.15pm
Link Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/engineering.utm.my/posts/2829961140614969
Opening Remark: Prof. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Mohammed Rafiq Bin Abdul Kadir
Keynote Lecture 1: Introduction to ERASMUS+ Project: MARE- Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia (Dr. Anton Shkaruba, Estonian University of Life Sciences)
Keynote Lecture 2: Marine Environmental Policy in Malaysia (Ms. Cheryl Rita Kaur, MIMA)
Keynote Lecture 3: Marine Environmental Enforcement in Malaysia (Mr. Fairoz b. Rozali, MARDEP)
Keynote Lecture 4: Water Quality Management in Malaysia (Puan Norlin binti Jaafar, DoE)
4.15-5.30pm
Online Forum – Environmental Awareness Program in Higher Education
Objective:  To collect feedback and suggestion from the panels about the environmental related content in the courses under MARE Project

Date: 10th  December 2020 (Thursday)
9.00-10.00am
Link Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/engineering.utm.my/posts/2829963933948023
Keynote Lecture 5:
 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) and It’s Future in Indonesia (Prof. Jaswar Koto, Universitas Muhammadiyah Riau)
Keynote Lecture 6:  Implementation of MARE in Vietnam (Dr. Le Thi Kim Thoa, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam)
10.00am-1.30pm
Presentation from UTM, UTP and UMT researchers about marine environmental research project and academic activities.

5th November 2020 Lecture of Well Stimulation Techniques course

On 5th November 2020, dissemination Session 4 on MARE was conducted via Online Platform, Microsoft Teams. The session was carried out during lecture of Well Stimulation Techniques course. The speaker, Haizatul Hafizah introduced the background of MARE and project objectives, as well as the partner institutions involved in this project. During the sharing session, students were exposed with critical issues related to marine sustainability and its importance during oil and gas operations.

2 November 2020 Adoption of online teaching course syllabus

Meeting “The adoption of online teaching course syllabus
Date: 2 November 2020


Coordinator: P5 HCMUNRE Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment
Partners: HCMUNRE MARE’s staff and Science council members of Marine resources Training on the use of the online teaching technologies: ZOOM, BigBLueButton, MS Teams and integration of the lessons based on these technologies into Syllabi of the new and revised courses.

 

 

15 October 2020 Roundtable Discussion organized by UTM

SESSION 1
Date: 15th October 2020
Time: 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Venue: Microsoft Teams (Online Platform)
Audience: Participants from Malaysia partner universities (UTP, UTM, UMT, and UniKL)

In conjunction with Erasmus Days, a roundtable discussion was organized by UTM with involvements from Malaysia partner universities on Thursday 15th October 2020. During the roundtable discussion, all partners discussed on work progress and activity planning, documents needed for project reporting, possible collaborations

Poster on Roundtable Discussion among MARE Malaysia Partners

Screenshot of Roundtable Discussion by MARE Malaysia Partners