CROATIA
University of Zadar offers a new master’s programme
Promoting blue growth in aquaculture and ďŹ sheries The University of Zadar, together with partners from the private sector, the county administration, and an NGO, and with support from the EMFF, has developed a new master’s programme to ďŹ ll the growing need for skilled personnel in the ďŹ sheries and aquaculture sector.
The master’s programme Sustainable management of water ecosystems has enrolled 80 students since it began of whom eight have graduated. Pictured is the programme’s first set of students.
Public and private sectors develop the programme together
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roatia’s long coastline and numerous islands have fostered a dynamic fishing, fish processing, and, more recently, fish farming sector. However, as in the wider Mediterranean, the Adriatic is subject to pressures both natural and manmade that have an impact on the marine environment in general and on fish stocks in particular. 26
Understanding these phenomena, their causes and impacts, and devising strategies to mitigate their effects and/or to adapt to them, is vital if the fisheries and aquaculture sector is to continue to be a source of
livelihoods and nutritious food in the future. With support from the EMFF, the University of Zadar (the largest integrated university in Croatia) and three partners, the Agency for Rural Development of Zadar County (AGRRA), Cromaris, a private fish and seafood farming company, and WWF Adria, an environmental NGO, have developed a graduate
programme, Sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems, that is intended to equip students and professionals with the skills required by industry and to expand the competencies of people already working in the field. The programme has so far enrolled three generations of students, eighty in total, of whom eight have graduated.
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