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AquaTT Training News - May / June 2007

Author: AquaTT

Date: 15 Jun 2007

May / June 2007

A free e-mail news service provided by AquaTT on European Education & Training in Aquaculture.
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We welcome submissions from current students interested in presenting their views and experiences on the industry and education in Europe. The newsletter reaches almost 3500 recipients on a monthly basis and will serve as a good forum to get your ideas out to the differing sectors involved in the industry. An email stating your background and the potential title of your article should be sent to aquatt@aquatt.ie for review.

Education

European Summer Academy at Lake Balaton (Hungary), 9 July – 10 August 2007

This special Europa Media promotional event is a 5-week programme on European project development and management. The European Summer Academy will bridge the gap between "Information Days" and the several years of actual experience required to develop project proposals and manage EU-funded projects. An ultimate solution in European project manager training.

The European Summer Academy is the cost-sensitive version of the well-established European Funding Academy. Organised once a year the Summer Academy is the ultimate solution for project managers to learn how to develop proposals and manage EU funded projects.

For more information please visit: http://www.eutrainingsite.com/open_details.php?id=12

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Intensive PhD course on the Economics of Fisheries Management, CEMARE, University of Plymouth (UK), 16 - 27 July 2007

CEMARE at the University of Portsmouth will arrange a PhD course on The Economics of Fisheries Management Monday 16th July - Friday 27th July inclusive. There will be four hours of lectures per day over 10 days, giving a total of 40 hours.

Principal lecturers will be Professor Trond Bjorndal of CEMARE and Professor Gordon R. Munro of the University of British Columbia. There will also be lectures by other members of CEMARE staff and one or two guest lecturers.

There will be a fee of £ 350 to attend the course. Student accomodation will be available.

Please visit www.port.ac.uk/cemare for further information, including how to register for the course.

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Postgraduate Programmes and new range of short training programmes for continuing professional development, University of Stirling (UK), start September 2007

Besides its continuing Postgraduate Programmes, the University of Stirling’s world-class centre for research and development in aquaculture has now launched a new range of training programmes targeted at people working in the rural aquaculture industry. The Institute of Aquaculture has updated the training it offers to provide a wide selection of credited short courses, allowing people to boost their skills without a large time commitment.

Two week long courses are available in vocational subjects such as: Sustainable Aquaculture, Aquaculture Nutrition, Aquaculture and the Environment, Aquaculture Systems, Aquaculture Development, Aquaculture Business Management, Aquatic Veterinary Studies and Aquatic Pathobiology. The flexible training courses are designed to fit around the lifestyles of those working in aquaculture, particularly rural workers, who want to learn but can’t afford to take time out for longer periods of study.

The novel two-week teaching approach means that credit can be gained towards a Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or Master’s Degree. All of the modules are available for Continuing Professional Development, so professional training needs can be met with the option of returning at a later stage to complete an academic programme and gain a University qualification. For those who need even greater flexibility, distance learning courses such as our Postgraduate Certificate in Aquatic Animal Health and Master’s in Aquatic Resources Development are offered too.

The Institute of Aquaculture has successfully met industry and academic needs for the last 35 years with its provision of high quality and relevant aquaculture teaching and training. Teaching is carried out in state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories by highly experienced academic staff.

CLICK here for more information and an overview of Postgraduate Programmes at the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling

CLICK here for more information and an overview of Short Courses for Continuing Professional Development at the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling

For further information: contact Dr Lindsay Pollock at tel: +44 1786 467900 or l.j.pollock@stir.ac.uk

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Short training course: Shore Protection Strategies, Marina di Massa (Italy), 17 - 20 September 2007

ENCORA - European Network for Coastal Research Co-ordination Action - is a European part-funded initiative that essentially acts as a "network of networks", linking national coastal networks across Europe. ENCORA provides a range of services to coastal practitioners and researchers, including: a mechanism to search for contacts or information across European coastal networks; opportunities for young professionals to travel to conferences and take part in exchange visits and a Coastal Wiki - which provides free access to coastal and marine literature.

As part of ENCORA project activities, the Italian Coastal Network (RIC) are co-organising a short course on Shore Protection Strategies. The course is aimed at young researchers and technicians and will illustrate several shore protection methods, with special regard towards soft and innovative techniques. The training course will be delivered in English, and will take place in Marina di Massa (Italy) from September 17th-20th 2007. The course programme will comprise theoretical classes and field trips along the coast. September 21st 2007, there will be a national scientific meeting on the subject of innovative techniques for shore defence - an additional event to which participants of this course are welcome to attend.

For more information: http://www.dancore.dk/

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Collaboration

Workshop: Carrying Capacity Tools, Results and User Perspectives, 11 July 2007, Dublin (Ireland)

A workshop entitled Carrying Capacity Tools, Results and User Perspectives will be held in the offices of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Haddington Road, Dublin 4 on July 11. This one day Workshop is a follow on from the successful one day Conference held in Westport, Co. Mayo last September. The workshop assumes participants have no prior knowledge about carrying capacity, which may be defined as the ability to maintain animal and plant life within a discrete area in such a way that the ecosystem remains in equilibrium. Applied to aquaculture, it is about the ability of a particular area to support shellfish and/or finfish production in a sustainable way.

Participation is open to anyone who is interested in the coastal zone and wants to find out more about carrying capacity studies, single bay management or an ecosystem approach to bay management. Target audiences include users of the marine, such as fishermen, aquaculturists, and those involved in environmental & water monitoring, and coastal zone modelling & planning.

The conference is particularly relevant, in light of the State now planning and implementing carrying capacity studies for most of the major bays in the country. Similar studies are currently underway in bays in Ireland North and South and several are completed or nearing completion.

The agenda contains three major sessions:
1.    Tools for Carrying Capacity Studies
2.    Results from Carrying Capacity Studies
3.    Aquaculture Users Perspective

Date: Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 9.30am – 3.30pm

Venue: Geological Survey of Ireland, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland

Organised by Aqua TT on behalf of Clew Bay Marine Forum, South East Shellfish Co-op & La Tene Maps. Sponsored by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) and the Marine Institute and members of the EU funded Keyzones Project.

Registration:
•    Call Aqua TT to reserve your space: +353 1 644 9008 or email aquatt@aquatt.ie
•    Please register for the event by Friday, 6th July
•    Registration is free, however the workshop is limited to 50 participants

For more information, please go to: http://www.aquatt.ie/index.php/151/news/

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CRAB: press release Training Workshop, May 25th, Faro (Portugal)

The second CRAB training workshop took place on 25th May in Portugal and was held in the Olhão´s City Hall (Câmara Municipal de Olhão), just outside Faro. Key participants included 16 representatives from a number of Portuguese shellfish associations, Ana Manjua (Viveiros & Quintaformosa) and Bruno Fragoso (Ostracultura Lda), Sue Paffrath (AquaTT), Rob Thomas (UCC) and Glen Thomas (TNO).

The event opened with a welcome address by the president of the APAA, Francisco Manjua, and was followed by a short presentation by Sue Paffrath highlighting the six major biofouling organisms identified in the study, the problems associated with biofouling in Europe, the overall aims, objectives and approach of the CRAB project, and some of the strategies employed by SMEs to manage biofouling.

The most recent versions of the best practice guidelines and the biofouling manual were presented to demonstrate two of the key final deliverables from the CRAB project and their potential value to SMEs. Most of the shellfish producers expressed a particular interest in testing biological controls and silicon netting on oyster bags to try and combat biofouling at their sites.

A French oyster production company (Ostracultura Lda, Sagremarisco), producing ca 300 tons of oysters per annum for sale in French markets, was visited as well. The main biofouling species experienced at this site include mussels, tubeworms and algae. The main control strategies employed to combat biofouling at this site are a number of cleaning practices including heat treatment, jet washing and mechanical removal. Cleaning is carried out in conjunction with routine grading of oysters.

For more information, please contact Sue Paffrath at: sue@aquatt.ie

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PROFET POLICY Baltic Sea Fisheries Research Workshop: conclusions and presentations now available online

The FEAP secretariat have the pleasure to inform you that all the PowerPoint presentations made during the PROFET POLICY workshop in Vilnius are now available online, see http://www.profetpolicy.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=105

Please CLICK here to download the Conclusions of the reflections on future research needs in the Baltic.

For more information: www.profetpolicy.info

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News from EATP: Links section and Minutes and documents from 1st Stakeholders Meeting now available online

The minutes, agenda, presentations, proposals for initiative areas and the participants list from the EATP 1st Stakeholders Meeting in Brussels, March 2007 are now posted on the EATP News & Events page.

Also, a section with links is now included in www.EATPnet.eu. Here you find the very important consultation and debate on the further development of sustainable aquaculture that the DG Fisheries and Maritime Affairs have initiated, which may result in an updating of the 2002 Strategy for sustainable development of European aquaculture.

EATP encourages all stakeholders to take part in this discussion and consulting.

For more information: http://www.eatpnet.eu/news.php

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New Newsletter INRA: "live from the labs"

INRA is the leading agricultural research institute in Europe and one of the foremost institutes in the world for agriculture, food and nutrition and the environment.

The first issue of INRA’s newsletter "Live from the Labs" is now available at:
www.international.inra.fr/partnerships/with_the_private_sector/live_from_the_labs/archives

Published every two months, this newsletter provides you with:
- a selection of research results achieved by INRA scientists,
- a variety of business opportunities.

For more information, please contact The Inra/DPE web team: contact.DPE@rennes.inra.fr

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SEERAD invites project proposals under industry science partnership

Applications for a new initiative to enhance the existing valuable cooperation between the Scottish catching sector and fisheries science providers are being invited. The programme arises directly from the SeaFAR (Sea Fisheries Advisory and Reference Group) Action Plan.

Do you have an idea for a piece of research? Can you identify a gap in knowledge which needs filling? If so, please put forward your idea to the Industry/Science partnership

The Scottish Executive (SEERAD) has allocated extra funding in this and succeeding financial years to be spent on joint industry/science research projects. Ideas are being invited from individuals within the catching sector, fishermen’s associations, the relevant Regional Advisory Councils, NGOs and science providers for work which will either cover new research areas or enhance existing themes, allowing them to be completed more quickly or in greater depth than currently planned.

The closing date for the first call for ideas is 22 June.

For more information please CLICK here.

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Announcements

International Symposium on Fish Immunology
18 - 22 June 2007, Stirling (UK)

The seventh International Symposium on Fish Immunology, organised by the Nordic Society for Fish Immunology (NOFFI) (http://www.noffi.org) will be held 18th - 22nd June, 2007, and is hosted by the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (http://www.stir.ac.uk).

The conference will last for three and half days (19th - 22nd June 2007) and will consist of plenary and keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations covering both basic and applied fish immunology. There will also be a one-day workshop on the day prior to the conference (18th June 2007) aimed at PhD students and young researchers which will focus on new, cutting-edge antibody technologies in fish immunology.

Symposium website available at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/noffi/

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Scandinavian seminar "Future marine aquaculture - technological limitations and challenges", 21 June, Oslo (Norway)

A Scandinavian seminar "Future marine aquaculture - technological limitations and challenges" will be held in Oslo on 21 June. This is an event jointly organised by DesignACT and the Offshore Aquaculture Technology Platform (OATP). Participation is free. Similar seminars in other European regions are planned to be arranged later this year.

For more information:

Please register by sending your name and affiliation to Anna.Olsen@sintef.no

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EurOCEAN 2007 - A Science - Policy Event on the EU Maritime Green Paper, 22 June 2007, Aberdeen (UK)

The EurOCEAN 2007 is a major opportunity for the scientific community to contribute to the debate on a future maritime policy for the European Union, and formulate a maritime vision.

EurOCEAN 2007 will take place in conjunction with the Oceans '07 conference during the same week. The theme of Oceans '07 will be "Marine challenges: Coastline to Deep Sea". Oceans '07 will run from 18-21 June 2007. More information can be found on: http://www.oceans07ieeeaberdeen.org

For more information: http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/eurocean2007.html

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Policy Day: Marine Protected Areas; 5 years since Johannesburg - Integrating social needs into policy
4 July 2007, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 put marine restoration and protection on the international agenda. Participants in this event agreed to establish a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPA), covering fifteen percent of the world’s oceans, by 2015. Now that we are five years down the road, the first evaluation of the progress made is called for.

This policy day focuses on the social dimensions of MPA governance in a global perspective. It aims to gather an international audience of policymakers, academics, and civil society groups, for a cutting edge debate on topics relevant to North and South. Policy day statements highlighting key issues will be formatted into a policy brief, to be distributed to all participants.

The policy day precedes and feeds into the MARE People and the Sea Conference IV (5-7 July, 2007), entitled Who owns the coast?

For information and recent updates see: www.marecentre.nl/people_and_the_sea_4/PolicyDay2007.html

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Seminar on “Maritime Policies and Globalisation”, 9 - 10 July 2007, Azores

The CPMR and the Autonomous Government of the Azores are organising a seminar to be held in Terceira (Azores, PT) on 9 & 10 July 2007, on the theme “Maritime policies and globalisation”.

The main objective of the seminar will be to organise an exchange on best practice developed in various continents on the economic value of maritime assets and at the same time on the methods of reconciling this enhancement of the resource with the objective of sustainability.

The second objective will be to contribute to initiating a reflection on the governance of the Sea and the Oceans and on the role the different tiers of Government can play, through from global bodies (UNO system) to large regional areas, the States and ultimately the Regions.

For more information: http://www.crpm.org/index.php?act=6,1,2,49

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Annual EAFE Conference
9 - 11 July 2007, Reykjavik (Iceland)

Founded in 1989, the European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE) is an independent association of economists working in fisheries, including the catching, aquaculture and on-shore sectors, in the member states of the European Economic Area.

The XVIIIth Annual EAFE Conference is intended to contribute to the EAFE objectives by providing a forum for the dissemination of recent advances in fisheries and aquaculture economics and management and to promote discussion amongst researchers, managers, policy makers and stakeholders in the fisheries sector.

Conference themes:
1.    Advances in fisheries analysis and modelling
2.    Fisheries management regimes and applications in the European context
3.    Fish markets and aquaculture
4.    Improvements of EU fisheries policies

More information available on: http://www.eafe2007.hi.is/index.html

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AquaNor 2007 Exhibition (14 - 17 August) and Forum (15 - 16 August)
Trondheim (Norway)

The AquaNor Forum is a new feature to the world’s biggest aquaculture exhibition – Aqua Nor. Due to be held every two years, the Aqua Nor forum will provide a meeting for science, industry, consumers and policy makers to review developments in the aquaculture sector and to discuss the key issues that affect those developments.

Under the theme, WELFARE-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY - How our shared understanding of aquatic animals needs will shape their future homes", the AQUA NOR FORUM 2007 will address the issue of welfare as a driver for technological development in aquaculture. The forum is divided into three sessions, which look at different housing situations (structures used for the production of aquatic animals) and the interaction between different stakeholders in designing production systems. The three sessions end with a press conference that summarises discussions and recommends future action.

Full preliminary programme is available at:
http://www.easonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=25

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World Seafood Congress 2007
25 - 27 September 2007, Dublin (Ireland)

The World Seafood Congress 2007 will consist of a conference and an exhibition dedicated to the theme of “Innovation in the Seafood Industry" where exhibitors will showcase the latest technologies and trends in new product and process development, quality assurance and eco-labelling.

The Congress will be highly interactive; featuring a mix of plenary sessions addressed by leading experts from around the world along with tightly focussed breakout sessions that will encourage lively debate. These sessions will cover areas such as market access restrictions due to import authority requirements; the retail sector and the changing dynamics of seafood consumption; communicating the risks and benefits of eating seafood; seafood nutrition and sustainability; trends in sustainable fishing technology; seafood standard certification; consumer confidence and sustainability; models for managing fisheries sustainability; innovations in chemical risk management and testing; and the potential and challenges of the emerging functional foods markets.

The World Seafood Congress 2007 online booking is now open at the Congress website: www.worldseafoodcongress07.com

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Aquaculture Europe 2007
24 – 27 October 2007, Istanbul (Turkey)

The European Aquaculture Society and Eurasia Trade Fairs have combined their aquaculture events to launch the first “new format" Aquaculture Europe event, which combines a scientific conference with the highly successful Future Fish Eurasia Exhibition.

The interface between these two main features – the industry forum - will be filled by special events, including an industry day or ‘farmers day’, workshops for industry and the AE2007 student forum. As always, various social events will be a part of the Aquaculture Europe meeting.

The conference theme Competing claims addresses the various levels of competition that aquaculture faces at present, but upon which its future development will depend. "Claims" exist from other stakeholders with respect to physical space, investment and other finances, resources (e.g. for feed raw materials and water resources), technology and others.

More details on the EAS website: http://www.easonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=38

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10th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR), 12-16 November 2007, Wageningen IMARES in Zeeland, The Netherlands

From 12-16 November 2007, Wageningen IMARES will host the 10th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR) in Zeeland, The Netherlands. The title of the conference will be “Innovation in the exploitation and management of shellfish resources” (keynotes by S. Shumway and M. Crawford).

The deadline for submission of abstract is 1 July 2007. About 250 – 300 participants are expected.

For more information: www.icsr2007.wur.nl

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Other

European Commission launches consultation on a sustainable future for European aquaculture

The European Commission has started a consultation exercise on opportunities for the development of aquaculture in the European Union.

The steady growth in the demand for fisheries products represents great potential for further development in the production of such products from aquaculture. The purpose of this consultation is, therefore, to establish what action is desirable at EU level so that both the sector and the consumers can reap the maximum benefit from this development, while ensuring the sustainability of aquaculture activities. A detailed consultation paper has been published on the Internet, and stakeholders and citizens have until 15 July 2007 to provide the Commission with their views.

For more information: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/663&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN

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Seminar on Economic Dimensions of EU Fisheries, DG FISH of the European Commission, 14 - 15 May 2007: link to speeches and presentations

Direct link to see all the speeches and presentations made at the Seminar on Economic Dimensions of EU Fisheries organized by DG FISH of the European Commission the 14th and 15th May (only available in english):
http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/meetings_events/events/archives/events_2007/140507/presentations_en.htm

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Newsletter “Brussels in brief” from Interface Europe

When keeping up-to-date with current EU affairs is critical for your organisation to seize relevant EU opportunities, Interface Europe provides you with its free monthly Newsletter containing specific and updated information in the fields of research, innovation, training, industrial competitiveness and regional development on :
•    Open EU calls for proposals,
•    EU activities (infodays, main European events and conferences, projects, open consultation on future EU initiatives, current affairs from within EU Institutions, etc.),
•    Interviews of EU experts and EU key stakeholders,
•    Our training activities.

Please find available issues of "Brussels in Brief" by clicking on the following link:

http://www.interfaceurope.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=12&Itemid=82

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Call for applications for Early stage research training fellowships in Marine Sciences

Applications are invited for 3 fellowships for 12-month stays in one of the technology platforms of the Marie Curie site Station Biologique de Roscoff, France. Applicants must be non-French recent master graduates that wish to enter a scientific career without performing a doctoral thesis.

For more information: http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/ESTeam/

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Post your Student placement and MSc/ PhD vacancies on WWW.PISCESTTJOBS.COM

PISCES TT Jobs, an exciting and valuable free online service provided by AquaTT UETP Ltd. to employers and potential employees in aquaculture and related science sectors. Using a secure and innovative site format, employers and job searchers can post job vacancies and CVs, respectively, thus facilitating human resource development in the industry.

Upon registration, companies can post and instantaneously edit job vacancies, including permanent, temporary, MSc/PhD and student placement positions. Companies will only receive CVs of those applicants who are qualified for the position requirements. To ensure privacy and lessen the hassle of unsolicited calls and queries, company/organisation contact details will not be published online.

Prospective employees can use the online registration facility to obtain a username and password, post and edit their employee profile, upload a CV and apply online for positions.

If you are interested in posting a job vacancy or registering for the service, please contact aquatt@aquatt.ie

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About AquaTT

AquaTT through its extensive network has realised that essential information on upcoming changes is not being effectively disseminated to all parties. Thus, AquaTT is producing this free news service "TRAINING NEWS" specifically for the Aquaculture industry. The newsletter is intended to keep you informed of developments in Education & Training and related areas. Support material is available on the European Education Forum website www.piscestt.com. All old Training News is archived on the AquaTT site.

The main target audience for this newsletter is teachers, trainers and students in the aquaculture area but will also be of interest to policy makers, companies and associations.

AquaTT welcomes any feedback regarding content, presentation and user-friendliness of the newsletter. Please forward this mail to any colleagues that may be interested. Please submit any relevant information for dissemination in the newsletter.

DISCLAIMER: AquaTT provides this newsletter as a free service to interested parties. Most of the information is provided by AquaTT. Where it is not, the source of the news is provided in the text of the news brief or else AquaTT attributes the news to the coordinating body as the "Data Source Provider". In no way does this newsletter, by promoting events not coordinated by AquaTT, intend to wrongly or inappropriately claim projects, news, etc. as its own nor is it responsible for incorrect information provided from other sources. "Training News" is a promotional tool and forum for both AquaTT and other organisations.

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AquaTT Training News - May / June 2007

Author: AquaTT

Date: 15 Jun 2007

1. Education

2. Collaboration

3. Announcements

4. Other

5. Student corner

Education

Collaboration

Announcements

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Student Corner