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Sponsorship opportunity: ESA Ocean Synergy Training Course 2025 and the One Ocean Expedition
21 August 2024
Plymouth Marine Laboratory joins the Trevor Platt Science Foundation to announce the sponsorship of a trainee from a developing country to participate in the #OTC25, through the Trevor Platt Science (TPS) Fund at PML. One of the successful applicants selected for the #OTC25 training course will be sponsored by the PML-TPS Fund.
![Reykjavik, Iceland. The ESA OTC25 will take place during the One Ocean voyage from Tromsø to Reykjavik and Reykjavik to Nice in April-June 2025.](/getattachment/5c2b4a0c-0d9e-42c5-b1a4-7b4ef4f49d7d/untitled-design-3-.jpg)
Image: Reykjavik, Iceland. The ESA OTC25 will take place during the One Ocean voyage from Tromsø to Reykjavik and Reykjavik to Nice in April-June 2025.
ESA Ocean Synergy Training Course 2025 (#OTC25) and the One Ocean Expedition
Glimpses from the One Ocean Expedition 2023:
![Glimpses-from-the-one-ocean-expedition-2023.png Glimpses-from-the-one-ocean-expedition-2023.png](/getattachment/216a64ae-58f9-436a-890a-c8e84ecc48c9/Glimpses-from-the-one-ocean-expedition-2023.png)
The #OTC25 Training Course consists of two mandatory parts:
A shore-based online component from November 2024 to March 2025 using Ocean Virtual Laboratory: It will consist of 14 modules, each of 2 hours duration, scheduled at the rate of one module per week. Each module will focus on a different Earth Observation satellite measurement: How they work, how different instruments measure different properties, and how we can apply derived data in different ways for ocean science applications. The shore-based course will focus on a virtual Voyage of the ship-based component of the training course.
A ship-based component aboard the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl (https://lehmkuhl.no/en/) during the One Ocean expedition from Tromsø, Norway, to Nice, France, via Reykjavik, Iceland (22nd April 2025 - 4th June 2025 sailing 6200 nautical miles in about 35 days).
![SailingRoute-2-1024x566.jpg SailingRoute-2-1024x566.jpg](/getattachment/8001294b-0da7-4263-9cdc-6b04e51554e9/SailingRoute-2-1024x566.jpg)
You can find more information on this opportunity and how to apply on the website of the European Space Agency: https://oceantrainingcourse2025.esa.int/.
The deadline for application is the 8th of September 2024.
Schedules and Deadlines
Opening of student application submission | 12 June 2024 |
Applications submission deadline Sponsored: “40 ESA, 1 IOCCG, 1 PML-TPS Fund, 10 NASA students” |
08 September 2024 |
Announcement of student selection. Selected students will be informed by email no later than | 20 September 2024 |
First online lecture | 03 December 2024 |
Departure of Statsraad Lehmkuhl from Tromsø, Norway | 22 April 2025 |
Arrival Statsraad Lehmkuhl in Nice, France for the UN Ocean Decade (UNOC) 2025 Conference https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/ocean2025 |
04 June 2025 |