2023/24 Key Dates for Students Joining the MSc in Maritime Affairs

2023

19 June – 8 September English & Study Skills Programme: 12 weeks 11 – 15 September Non-teaching period for ESSP students: 1 week 11 September Orientation programme for non-ESSP students starts: 1 week

18 September Inauguration of the Class of 2024

18 September – 15 December First term: 13 weeks

28 October Graduation Ceremony for the Class of 2023

18 December – 5 January Non-teaching period: 3 weeks

2024

8 January – 20 June Second term: 24 weeks 8 January Students with advanced standing join the class of 2024

6 – 17 May Non-teaching, re-sit examinations period: 2 weeks 24 June – 28 June Non-teaching period: 1 week 1 July – 25 October Third term: 17 weeks

26 October Graduation Ceremony for the Class of 2024

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

WMU regularly organizes and hosts successful international conferences, often co-hosted with international organizations, such as IMO, UN Environment and the EU, and attracting eminent keynote speakers and panellists. Students enrolled in the Malmö programmes are able to attend the conferences that take place in Malmö as part of their studies, extending their network of contacts and taking part in high-level discussions with very senior maritime practitioners. Recent and planned international conferences and events have included:

• Global MTCC Network (GMN) Seminar, 2019 • Second WMU Regional Conference for the Americas,

Maritime Transport and Ocean Policies: Mexico, 2019 • Capacity-Building, Gender Empowerment and the BBNJ

Agreement, 2019 • Anthropogenic Underwater Noise Symposium, 2019 • International Conference on Legal, Scientific and

Economic Aspects of Deep Seabed Mining, 2019 • IMLA Joint Conference with ICERS, IMEC and INSLC, 2021 • 44th Center for Oceans Law & Policy Conference, 2021 • Ocean Literacy Conference, 2022 • ICLEI Research Symposium, 2022 • Closing the Circle Regional Conference, Dominica, 2022 • Side Events for the 2022 UN Oceans Conference, 2022 • New Technologies for Greener Shipping, 2022 • IMO-WMU Joint Academic Conference on the London

Convention and Stockholm Declaration, 2022 • WMU 40th Anniversary Conference, 2023

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