Vocational Aqualabs

The overall aim of Vocational Aqualabs is to improve Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems in the European Aquaculture sector to ensure researchers receive continual professional development training in generic skills.

The Vocational Aqualabs consortium recently carried out a needs analysis in relation to generic skills in aquaculture research and are using these results to develop pilot courses. The courses include:
  1. Experimental Design
  2. Aquaculture Entrepreneurship Mentorship
  3. Data and Statistical Management
  4. Scientific writing
  5. Project management
  6. Research Funding Procurement
  7. Networking – key for a successful career 
The courses will be piloted online and face-to-face across Turkey, Greece, Spain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Upcoming courses:

Project management, Research Funding Procurement, Networking – key for a successful career  

Three of the Vocational Aqualabs courses will be piloted in Bodrum, Turkey on the 24th and 25th October. Ankara University, Stirling University and AquaTT will be piloting Project management, Research Funding Procurement and Networking – key for a successful career to young researchers.

 

Aquaculture Entrepreneurship Mentorship - Aquaculture Talent Hatchery (ATH) challenge

Young entrepreneurs will be competing at the upcoming Aquaculture Europe conference (AE 2011) in Rhodes, Greece (18th – 19th October 2011) for the Aquaculture Talent Hatchery (ATH) Award.

Four teams from the UK, Greece, Spain and Ireland have been participating in the Aquaculture Talent Hatchery (ATH) challenge over the past number of weeks. The Aquaculture Entrepreneurship Mentorship programme seeks to provide early career researchers with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage the development of an entrepreneurial mindset. With support from their assigned mentors, participants have been working in teams and competing against other international teams in developing a business plan. The teams will make a final presentation to a panel of ATH mentors and industry representatives at AE2011 where the teams will showcase their final business plan. The presentations will take place at on the 19th as the final section (17:30-18:45) of the Fish Farmers Day and you are all invited to come along and show your support. The award will be presented to the winning team at 18.00 on the 20th in the AQUARK and AQUATT stand (booth 78) in the trade show.

The ATH trainers (AQUARK, Stirling University and INNOVAMAR) and students would like to take this opportunity to thank the ATH mentors for their support; Mr. Gustavo Larrazábal A. (Grupo Tinamenor - Spain), Prof. Patrick Smith (Tethys Aquaculture Ltd - UK), Mr. John Stefanis (Selonda Group - Greece) and Dr. Gerry Mouzakitis (Gourmet Marine Ltd - Ireland). For more information on the Aquaculture Entrepreneurship Mentorship programme visit http://www.aquaculturetalent.com/.