News 2016
SMART award
A unique alliance, featuring BEES has picked up an important national award.
The SMART programme, of which Prof. Andy Wheeler and Prof. John Benzie are cofounders has won the Excellence in Marine Training and Education award at the recent Marine Industry Awards. The programme was also shortlisted for the overall Excellence in Marine award.
A spokesperson for SMART said, "This is a fantastic acknowledgement of all the hard work carried out collaboratively to date and will hopefully allow us to build on our success".
The Strategic Marine Alliance for Research and Training (SMART) is a marine science partnership programme designed to further develop capacity in carrying out offshore operations on board research vessels for third level students of marine-related science and technologies.
This strategic collaborative inter-institutional programme is led and funded by Irish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the Marine Institute and is also supported by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).
Check out our photographs from last week's ceremony at https://t.co/ufW1UZWUi5 #MarineAwards_ie #seafest2016 pic.twitter.com/tvaCrCtDwB
— Marine Awards (@MarineAwards_ie) July 5, 2016
Congratulations to @smartseaschool on winning Excellence in Marine Education & Training Award! #MarineAwards_ie pic.twitter.com/nHctGbLfzV
— Marine Awards (@MarineAwards_ie) June 30, 2016
Delighted to accept on behalf of partners @MfrcGmit @MarineInst @nuigalway @uccBEES @AthloneIT @UlsterUni #BlueSkill https://t.co/T53VDaxUUS
— Smart Sea School (@smartseaschool) July 1, 2016