The CRC delivered biannual courses on Integrated Coastal Management from 1991 to 2008. That experience and network is still alive in the new Coastal Management Institute. There you will see the full suite of capacity building services from the CRC.
“Summer Institute in Coastal Management” was a three to four week-long, intensive training course for a diverse range of individuals who shared the common goal of trying to improve the management of the world’s coasts. Past participants included coastal management practitioners, policymakers, government officials, scientists, community organizers, members of nongovernmental organizations, and university faculty or students.
Summer Institute was offered every two years at the University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus. Participants and instructors from around the world attended the sessions, providing a wealth of real-life experience from which course participants could draw. Participants were trained in technical and management tools and techniques for tackling the multifaceted challenges facing the world’s coasts. The course also included training in professional and leadership skills such as critical thinking, conflict resolution, group facilitation and effective communications.
Since the inaugural course in 1991, participants from some 65 countries and 150 organizations have attended. Alumni hold key positions in public and private-sector organizations and form a worldwide network of coastal professionals. Examples of companies and sponsoring organizations involved with the Summer Institute include the United States Agency for International Development, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the United Nations Environmental Programme; faculty or directors of centers at Universities in the Philippines, Fiji, Indonesia, the West Indies, Mexico, Tanzania, Canada; nongovernmental organizations such as Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund; and consulting firms such as Chemonics International.