FUTURE PLAN
For the future, GOOS-AFRICA will serve as an engine to:
- maintain enhanced collaboration with the African Union through GMES & Africa and other relevant initiatives in oceanography initiated by the AU;
- Implement the GOOS Strategic Plan in Africa.
- Ensuring the functioning of the GOOS-AFRICA secretariat established at CURAT at the University F.H.B. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire;
- Promoting in situ ocean observations and remote sensing in Africa;
- Contributing to implementation of the African Decade of Oceans and Seas;
- Contributing to implementation of the African Union's integrated marine strategy;
- Contributing to implementation of the blue economy strategy developed within the framework of the African Vision 2063;
- Supporting the development of an ocean academy in Africa based on existing institutions and infrastructure;
- Developing oceanography curricula at the Master's and Doctorate levels;
- Developing networks of young researchers for GOOS-AFRICA;
- Holding a Pan-African conference on ocean sciences, technology, and operational oceanography;
- Implementing a project on the vulnerability of coastal areas to dangerous substance spills;
- Promoting projects aimed at adaptation in coastal areas.
To fulfil that mission, GOOS-AFRICA’s actions will be: