WMU Progress and Planning 2011

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Progress and Planning 2011

World Maritime University

Message from the President

Professor Björn Kjerfve, Ph.D. President World Maritime University

For the World Maritime University (WMU), the past year turned out to be both very exciting and successful. WMU faced great challenges, implemented many changes, and came through with a profound sense of accomplishment.

The new Charter went into effect on 1 January 2010, and an IMO-appointed 11-person business-oriented Executive Board was established to provide oversight of the University between sessions of the Board of Governors (BoG) and to report to the BoG. WMU developed a series of plans with broad faculty and staff input, including Strategic Vision Plan 2010-2015, New Premises 2012, Development Plan 2011-2013, and Business Plan 2011-2012. These plans are providing the blueprint for further change and growth during the next several years.

Improving Finances WMU developed a financial industry-strength simulation model to aid in the formulation of the financial aspects of the business plan, to help determine faculty and staff hiring, to optimize student intakes, and to simulate different budget scenarios. In spite of a €926,000 budget deficit reported to the BoG in mid-2010, WMU closed its books with a financial surplus for the year thanks to 10% cost cutting, improved processes and efficiencies, and a 11% increase in revenue.

In addition, 2010 was the year that WMU fully implemented the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS).

NEW WMU GOVERNANCE Under the new Charter that took effect on 1 January 2010, the University now has a newly constituted Board of Governors, which met for the first time in June 2010, and a new Executive Board, which met first in April 2010, and which has since also taken a very active role in WMU’s progress.

Reports from WMU have also been considered at sessions of IMO Assembly, IMO Council, and the IMO Technical Co-operation Committee.

Attendance at the first meeting of the Executive Board in April 2010 included from the left Andy Winbow, IMO Director of Administration; Richard Sadler, CEO Lloyd’s Register; HE Binali Yildirim, Minister of Transport & Communications, Turkey; Hiroshi Terashima, Executive Director, Ocean Policy Research Foundation; Kimberly Karlshoej, TK Foundation; Jan Kopernicki, EB Chair, and Vice-President Shipping, Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited; Doris Magsaysay Ho, President and CEO, Magsaysay Inc.; Björn Kjerfve, WMU President; and Gunilla Malmlöf, Chief Legal Adviser, Swedish Maritime Administration.

Record Intake A total 3,040 alumni from 159 countries and 3 territories have to date graduated with WMU degrees. A record M.Sc. student intake in the Malmö Class of 2011 of 106 was a record accomplishment. This was further augmented with an intake of 115 students in two outreach M.Sc. degree programs in Dalian and Shanghai, a distance education post-graduate marine insurance diploma course, and a collaborative L.LM degree program with Lund University. Four students have now received their Ph.D. degrees from WMU, and five more students are enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the WMU Maritime Affairs program in Malmö.

Faculty transitions WMU has experienced a changing of the guard during the past year with a significant turn-over of personnel. Five faculty members retired (Jan Horck, Sven-Åke Wernhult, JanÅke Jönsson, Inger Sund-Battista and John Liljedahl) and two departed (Agneta Dahl and Pierre Cariou). So far three new faculty have been hired: Dr. Raphael Baumler (maritime

safety and risk analysis), Dr. Chie Kojima (law of the sea) and LCDR Mark Sawyer (seconded from the US Coast Guard). In addition, there were several important staff changes, including the hiring of Anders Ihr as the new Director of Administration, Paul Mollet as the first Development Adviser, and recently Antoine Smaal as the next Registrar to join WMU in March 2011 after a global search. Two additional faculty members and a new Vice President (Academic) will be recruited in 2011.

A New Campus Most exciting, negotiations between WMU and the City of Malmö resulted in an offer by the City for the University to occupy, in late 2012, the Old Port Building next to the central rail station, including an addition to be designed and constructed in the near future.

This is indeed a very generous gift-in-kind by the City of Malmö. At the same time, WMU provides value to Malmö and the region as reported by a consultancy report of a few years ago, which calculated a local economic impact-multiplier of 6.4 for WMU’s expenditures, and the creation of some 200 local and regional jobs.

STRONG SWEDISH/JAPANESE REPORT The Government of Sweden continues to provide financial base support for the University. Nevertheless, the 2008-2009 global financial down-turn and the loss of financial support from several governments have eroded WMU’s financial stability, in spite of very generous professorial chairs and student fellowship gifts from the Nippon Foundation and its associated foundations for the past 23 years, as well as major gifts from another 100+ donors. At the same time, IMO Assembly in resolution A1031 (26) has requested Secretary-General E.E. Mitropoulos “to work out, under direction of Council, ways and means to ensure the financial sustainability of the University”, to allow WMU to hire the full complement of faculty and staff, invest in an ERP system, move into the new University facility, and to resolve other outstanding issues.

The World Maritime University is a small UN university with focus on post-graduate maritime education, maritime research, and global capacity building. More solid financial support would allow WMU to retain its position as the pinnacle of excellence in education in the maritime world. After three years of financial losses, the University has managed to accomplish a turn-around and is facing a bright and exciting future.

Björn Kjerfve, Ph.D., President

Graduation 2010: Professor Björn Kjerfve, WMU President; HE Georg Boomgaarden, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UK and Chairman of IMO Assembly; IMO Secretary-General E. E. Mitropoulos, WMU Chancellor; Ilmar Reepalu, Mayor of the city of Malmö; Professor Shuo Ma, Vice-President (Academic).

The WMU Academic Outcomes

2010 saw the first student intake to the newly restructured M.Sc. program in Malmö. The standard M.Sc. program is now 14 months long, and runs in parallel with an 11-month accelerated M.Sc. program. The intake of 106 students in the Class of 2011 is the highest ever, and also has the highestever proportion of women students and the largest number of students funded by their employers, governments, or from personal resources.

The University continued to receive substantial support from fellowship donors, including the Ocean Policy Research Foundation of Japan, IMO, the Republic of Korea, the International Transport Workers’ Federation, the United Kingdom, the EU’s SafeMed II project, the TK Foundation and the International Chamber of Shipping. The large intake and the diversity of sponsors demonstrates that the restructured program fits well with the needs of WMU clients around the world.

Malmö standard MSc

The two outreach M.Sc. programs in Shanghai and Dalian continued to thrive, as did the Post-graduate Diploma program in marine insurance, taught by distance learning, which almost doubled its intake in 2010. Planning has commenced to, under the right circumstances, extend the outreach programs to India and the Gulf region. Such WMU outreach programs would be delivered by WMU faculty in association with local partners.

175 students graduated from WMU’s programs during 2010, including 71 M.Sc. students in Malmö, 2 Ph.D. students, and 15 Post-graduate Diploma students in marine insurance, and degrees were conferred in October at a ceremony where the Guest of Honor was HE Georg Boomgaarden, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UK and Permanent Representative to IMO. The graduates of 2010 bring the total graduates to 3,040 from 159 countries and 3 territories.

Malmö Shanghai Dalian accelerated MSc MSc MSc

PG Diploma WMU-Lund Malmö by distance LLM PhD learning

Middle East & North Africa; 11%

Latin America & the Caribbean; 12%

Africa; 26%

Europe & North America; 6%

Asia & the Pacific; 45%

WMUSwansea PhD

Class of 2011 – intake

100

6

30

33

29

23

4*

1*

Class of 2010 – graduates

69

2

36

35

15

16

2

0

2,381

143

200

195

91

26

3

1

Total Graduates since 1983

WMU students by region of origin

Ms Fang Ying of China’s Ministry of Transport, 2010 winner of the Chancellor’s Medal for Academic Excellence, the Pierre Léonard Prize for the Best Female Student, and the Informa Law dissertation prize, with HE Georg Boomgaarden, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UK and Chairman of IMO Assembly; Mr Ilmar Reepalu, Mayor of Malmö; and Mr E. E. Mitropoulos, Secretary-General of IMO and Chancellor of WMU.

EU Research Projects 2010 saw great success for the University in securing European Union-funded research projects.

ARTWEI, Action for the Reinforcement of Transitional Waters’ Environmental Integrity, started in July 2010. The project is supported

by EU South Baltic Programme, and aims to develop new methods for the management of trans-boundary waters in the southern Baltic region, as well as supporting cross-border dialog. WMU’s research team is led by Professor Olof Lindén. ARTWEI brings €260,000 in research funding to WMU over three years.

IMPROVING SAFETY AT SEA WMU is leading the ADOPTMAN project, an EU €1.3 million research project, of which WMU will receive €200,000. ADOPTMAN – ADvanced Planning for OPTimised Conduction of Coordinated MANoeuvres in Emergency Situations – is a three-year SwedishGerman project that addresses safety of life at sea, and aims to ensure that bridge teams have enough assistance to deal with safetycritical situations. WMU’s team is led by Dr. Michael Baldauf of WMU’s Maritime Risk & Safety (MaRiSa) research group.

Dr. Baldauf and the MaRiSa research group are also taking a lead role in the

SPRINGER TO PUBLISH WMU JOURNAL WMU has negoitiated an agreement with Springer Verlag to publish and market the WMU Journal of Marine Affairs, which will continue to be edited by WMU professors Dr. Jens Schröder-Hinrichs and with Dr. Max Mejia as associate editor. Publishing in the journal will be more attractive by the openaccess articles in the electronic issues, which will significantly increase citations.

The organizers of the R&D Forum on Emerging Ballast Water Management Systems, include (far left, back row) Fredrik Haag and Dr. Jose Matheickal of IMO and the GEF-UNDPIMO-GloBallast Partnerships Programme, Miguel Palomares (second right, back row), formerly Director of IMO Marine Environment Division, and WMU Professor Neil Bellefontaine (far right, back row) and WMU Professor Olof Lindén (far left, front row).

Team-Safety project, which aims to develop an innovative 3D virtual team-training maritime safety simulation platform to meet the EU’s latest safety requirements for emergency response training. Team-Safety has a total funding of €2.8 million, of which WMU will receive €300,000.

Dr. Jens Schröder-Hinrichs and WMU’s MaRiSa research group are also involved in

IMPACT, which will develop an “Integrated Maritime Progressive Assessment and Calibration Tool”. The IMPACT consortium is led by Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, and includes partners from France, Germany, and Sweden. The twoyear project has a €600,000 budget, of which WMU will receive €54,000.

wmu International conferences In early 2010, WMU and IMO co-sponsored a highly successful Global R&D Forum on Emerging Ballast Water Systems that attracted more than 275 speakers and participants to discuss their views on ballast water treatments systems and management.

During 7-9 March 2011, WMU and IMO will co-host an international conference on Oil Spill Risk Management. The conference will be held in Malmö, Sweden, in

partnership with several industry and NGO sponsors. The conference will focus on preparedness, response, and contingency planning in the shipping and offshore industries.

Further, 17-19 October 2011, an international conference on Piracy at Sea will be co-hosted by WMU and IMO in Malmö, Sweden.

For further information on the conferences, visit www.wmu.se.

Dr. Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, with Dr. Kjerfve and the Sasakawa Fellows in the Class of 2010, at the exhibition and symposium “Towards a Nuclear Weapon-free World”, Stockholm, September 2010.

At the Manila conference on the adoption of amendments to STCW in June 2010, Neil Ferrer, Chairman of IMO Maritime Safety Committee; Dr. Angelica Baylon, Maritime Academy of Asia & the Pacific; and Dr. Kjerfve, WMU President.

Financial Outlook In response to the challenging financial situation which the University faced in mid2010, WMU implemented a major cost-saving effort, including several staff cuts. In addition, WMU is continuing to seek additional sources of funding, aimed at securing its long-term future. Funding in 2010 included a one-off contribution by IMO of €306,000. By year end, WMU had managed to turn-around its finances and closed the books for 2010 with a financial surplus of €329,458. However, the need to hire new faculty and staff, invest in an ERP system, and facilitate the move to the new University facility will require sustainable funding from IMO, something the University has lacked.

The full implementation of the IPSAS in 2010 was a major effort with the migration of all accounting protocols from UNSAS. The work was accomplished by WMU Finance Officer Leo Viajar and his team and represents a significant achievement.

With the help of financial simulation modeling as guided by the new Business Plan 2011-2012, WMU improved the financial outlook for the next two years. This will allow a sustained financial turn-around. The management will work to increase revenue further by a systematic and targeted development effort, new outreach educational programs, more widely advertised maritime professional development courses, execution of well-sponsored international conferences, and emphasis on sponsored research activities, thereby improving further the financial environment and the outlook for longterm sustainability. In 2011, WMU is beginning a global campaign to raise support for the move to the new Uni- versity facility in 2012, and is also starting to plan for a first-ever Alumni Conference in Africa. The Development Plan 2011-2013 will serve as the blueprint for the development effort towards a sustainable future. In particular, WMU is seeking sponsorships for named endowed professorial chairs and student fellowships.

The new WMU facility to be occupied in late 2012, the Old Port Building in central Malmö.

New Building Offers New Opportunities WMU received a major boost in 2010 from the offer by the City of Malmö to relocate the University to a new building known as the Old Port Building. The move was endorsed by the Executive Board and the Board of Governors in November 2010.

The new facility is conveniently located close to the Malmö Central train station in the very center of Malmö and reachable by train from Copenhagen International Airport through the new city tunnel in less than 20 minutes. The facility, including a proposed addition to be constructed in 2011-2012, is a third larger than the existing building and will allow WMU to grow. Once the move is completed by the end of 2012, WMU will be able to increase further the number of students in Malmö with an aim towards a maximum 200-student intake by 2015.

The new University addition to be

connected to the the existing Old Port Building, or Tornhuset as the building is known locally, will include a 194-student auditorium, a 160-student auditorium, numerous seminar rooms and classrooms, an AV conference center, research laboratories, a significantly enhanced maritime library with 25-foot ceilings, and the World Café, a roof-top cafeteria to service the international faculty, staff, and students with a view of both Malmö and Copenhagen.

The new facility will allow the University to grow and to offer improved teaching space, better research facilities, and additional auditoria for conferences and professional development courses. The new facility will provide WMU the opportunity to generate revenue through sponsorship and naming opportunities.

Malmö, Sweden

Summary of 2010 Financial Outcome (€) Income Contribution Fellowship Fees Other Income

3,608,993 1,645,688 1,289,010

TOTAL INCOME

6,543,691

Expenditure Personnel Cost Student Cost Administrative and Operational Cost

3,429,984 2,239,035 545,214

TOTAL EXPENSE

6,214,233

Surplus

329,458 The Turning Torso in Malmö.

The Öresund bridge connecting Malmö and Copenhagen.

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