# @unesco on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2I9y27RJk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36729600-unesco-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-10T10:28:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UNESCO (@unesco) — https://gondola.cc/unesco

## Caption

In September, the first-ever Coastal Ocean Environment School in Western Indian Ocean (COES-WIO), took place in Mombasa, Kenya! 🇰🇪

Happening in the framework of the #OceanDecade and hosted by the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM), Pwani University and Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Government of Flanders, University of Michigan, Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association and ECOP Africa, this 7-day training provided 75 early-career ocean professionals from across the Western Indian Ocean region with an opportunity to hone their practical skills while connecting with experts and building networks with fellow ocean scientists. 

From fieldwork, laboratory analysis, data interpretation, and presentations, COES-WIO delivered a hands-on learning experience in ocean science through several workstreams: 

✅ Small-scale fisheries and post-harvest losses, and mariculture potential in the region
✅ Climate change, with a focus on beach erosion and coastal processes
✅ Physical and chemical oceanography
✅ Marine plastics and pollution
✅ Ecological survey techniques and data management

The Ocean Decade Capacity Development Facility and the OceanTeacher Global Academy provided additional support to enable early-career ocean professionals, or #ECOPs, to attend this training, with a focus on ecological survey techniques and data management. 

Hear more from Veronique Nomenjanahary, a researcher from the University of Reunion, who was supported by the Ocean Decade Capacity Development Facility to attend this training. 

Learn more about the Ocean Decade Capacity Development Facility: https://oceandecade.org/capacity-development-facility/

#OceanDecade #CapacityDevelopment

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ecops, oceandecade, capacitydevelopment

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