UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium

In order to respond to new challenges faced by the IODE Programme, an “IOC Project Office for IODE” has been established in Oostende, Belgium, with substantial support from the Government of Flanders (Belgium) and City of Ostend. With the opening of the IOC Project Office for IODE on 25 April 2005, the IODE programme entered a new era of capacity building and ocean data/information services.

Candidate Regional Training Centres organize OTGA trainings on trial basis. These centres could assume full/designated status in the future.

• China:   National Centre of Ocean Standards and Metrology (NCOSM) ( Recent Courses ) | National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS) ( Recent Courses )
• Iran:   Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science ( Recent Courses )