ACECoR aims at achieving excellence in training both students and professionals in selected areas as a way of enhancing coastal resilience and promoting policies through:
1. Enhancing old academic programmes and developing new programmes to train professionals in the coastal issues
2. Improve teaching and learning environment and resources for training and research
3. Enhance human resource capacity for teaching and research in the thematic areas of the project
4. Establish strategic academic and industry sector partnerships for outreach through students/faculty exchange, networking, conferences and workshops.
ACECoR will train 120 graduates at the postgraduate (PhD and Masters) levels in addition to 260 professionals (in short courses) across Africa in the areas already described. In addition to existing programmes of Disaster Risk Management and Migration, Fisheries Science, and Integrated Coastal Zone Management, new programmes in Physical Oceanography, Coastal and Marine Engineering, Forestry Engineering and Marine Meteorology will be developed and mount for the training of postgraduate students.
University of Cape Coast