NMU will take part at the Open Days 2010 in Brussels as best practice presenting the projects achievements at the stand in the Committee of Regions building.

13 Cluster Ideas have been submitted for consideration by the Monitoring Committee. It is still possible to hand in ideas as input for the Cluster Projects Development Workshop on 13 and 14 October in Bremen, Germany.

3rd meeting of North Sea Screen Partners on 24th and 25th August 2010

The enercoast project was featured on the German regional TV channel NDR in their show “Hallo Niedersachsen” on 15 September. The clip is available online.

NMU succeeded in acquiring one of the leading companies based in maritime education.

The projects approved at Steering Committee No 5 and ready to start are now presented in the project section.

It is still possible to hand in cluster project ideas as input for discussion at the MC meeting on 29 and 30 September. The deadline for submission is 22 September.

Now, there is a podcast available that summarizes the visit of state secretary Heinz Maurus at the NMU partner University of Applied Sciences Lübeck on August 18, 2010.

Online registration for the Lead Beneficiary Seminar is now open. The lunch-to-lunch event will take place on 12 and 13 October in Bremen, Germany.

It is now possible to register online for the Cluster Project Development Workshop, which will take place on 13 and 14 October in Bremen, Germany. All lead beneficiaries, beneficiaries and other interested stakeholders are welcome to participate.

The Programme invites project beneficiaries to submit initial ideas for cluster project initiatives.

An updated version of the Manual on First Level Control is now online. For easier identification of the changed information there is also a version with track changes available.

Matt Nichols has been appointed by the Programme for the post of the Cluster Facilitator, starting at the beginning of October.

The Programme will arrange the next Lead Beneficiary Seminar in connection with the Cluster Projects Development Event in Bremen, Germany, on 12-14 October.

The Northern Maritime University (NMU) was invited to give a presentation on the topic of the international university network for innovative education and R&D and to attend the panel discussion for International Education Cooperation by He Mingke the dean of the Graduate School, professor of Business School of Beijing Technology and Business University of China (BTBU), and vice director of Teaching Guiding Committee for Logistics Education of Ministry of Education of China. The discussion took place in the frame of the 2010 Annual Educators’ Conference on Logistics Education in Changsha from July 26 to August 4, 2010.

State Secretary for European Affairs Heinz Maurus from the regional government of Schleswig-Holstein is on a tour to visit different Interreg projects in the region.

The Scoop! Magazine featuring seven Interreg projects is now available online. The thematic focus of the magazine is on sustainability cooperation in the northern Netherlands.

The Annual Event of the Interreg IVA 2 Seas Programme will take place in Bournemouth, UK on 23 September 2010.

On September 3 and 4, the NMU partner University of Applied Sciences Bremen invites to the 4th Bremer Shipping Congress. The conference 2010 focusses on “Lifelong Learning – human resources development in the maritime industry”.
The NMU project is involved in the organisation and project partner Thomas Pawlik will be chairing the first day of the conference. Furthermore, the NMU will be present with an exhibition stall, too.

The presentations given at the First Level Control seminar in the Netherlands are now available for download.