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Leg PS147/2 hosts the 3rd edition of the WASCAL Floating University Programme
(GPF 24‑1_035; WASCAL-III) which combines a research expedition with an academic
curricular education cruise. This Floating University cruise is a continuation of the successful
previous edition during PS135/2 and part of the curriculum of the international master
programme “Climate Change and Marine Sciences”, which is currently implemented at the
Atlantic Technical University of Cabo Verde (UTA) in the framework of the BMBF-funded
WASCAL programme (“West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted
Land Use”). During the cruise, several modules of the curriculum will be taught theoretically as
well as practically. In addition, scientists on board will be able to communicate their research to
West African students and data will be collected for individual master thesis projects. Therefore,
ongoing scientific research efforts off West Africa will be integrated into the work program (e.g.,
ecological and biogeochemical time-series observations). The students will benefit, not only
through the teaching component delivered by the lecturing PIs, but even more through their
immersion into real individual research projects as compared to the more “staged” experience
of classical field work practicals.
Through the combination of teaching and research (“training-through-research”), the WASCAL
Floating University during PS147/2 benefits academic education as well as for current research
projects in the region.
The WASCAL Programme in Cabo Verde including this expedition are endorsed by IOC-
UNESCO as a Decade Project hosted by the Decade ECOP Programme within the framework
of the UN Decade of Ocean Research for Sustainable Development. |
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