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Signing of the Cooperation Agreement

22 November 2018 / Mindelo and Kiel
Representatives of the EU Commission and the Cape Verdean government sign agreement at the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo

20 November 2018 / Kiel and Mindelo
A new brochure describes technical and scientific capacities of the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM)

The overall mission of the OSCM, technical facilities, associated scientific topics as well OSCM’s objectives for academic training, outreach and dialogue are being described and illustrated in detail.

18 November 2018 / Mindelo
The European Commission is organising the High-level Event "Our Atlantic Ocean for Growth and Well-Being” on 21-22 November 2018 in Mindelo

The event will be hosted at the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo in partnership with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany and the National Institute for Fisheries Development INDP, Cabo Verde.

2 June 2017 / Mindelo
After two and a half years of construction, the new GEOMAR research station in Mindelo, Cape Verde, has been completed. Now the preparations for the scientific operation of the Ocean Science Center Mindelo have begun.

2 February 2017 / Mindelo
RV Maria S. Merian back in the EEZ of Cabo Verde

The deep sea is the largest environment on the planet. Most of the deep sea consists of the water column above the seafloor, the pelagic zone. In many parts of the pelagic ocean, no scientific sample has ever been collected.