UNESCO CATEGORY 2 ITCOocean COMPLEX

Dec. 21, 2018

Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences will inaugurate a UNESCO Category 2, International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean) Complex in the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) campus at Hyderabad on 22nd December, 2018.

Background:

Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) had established an ITCOocean at INCOIS, Hyderabad in 2013 to provide training to scientists/ researchers/government officers/disaster managers/decision makers, etc. from India and abroad.
Later, in order to assist UNESCO and its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in developing new methods of capacity building for the countries bordering the Indian and Atlantic Oceans and small island countries, the Government of India (GoI) offered to establish the ITCOocean as a UNESCO Category 2 Centre.
This offer of GoI was approved by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 2017.

Mission:

The mission of the Centre is to assist the Member States of IOC/UNESCO in developing oceanographic scientific base and to create a pool of trained ocean scientists, technologists and managers to cater the growing demands of operational oceanographic services.

Source : PIB