About Us

IOI–Canada is one of the 23 Operational Centres of the International Ocean Institute. Founded in 1972 by the late Elisabeth Mann Borgese, this international, independent, non-governmental, nonprofit organisation is incorporated in the Netherlands and headquartered in Malta. The institute aims:

• to ensure the sustainability of the Ocean as "the source of life", and to uphold and expand the principle of the common heritage as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; and,
• to promote the concept of Pacem in Maribus – peace in the Ocean and its management and conservation – for the benefit of future generations.

IOI-Canada has a Memorandum of Agreement with Dalhousie University and is housed on its campus in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Guidance is provided by the university's Oceans Advisory Committee, whilst IOI staff conduct day-to-day activities.

One of the IOI's key activities is training, and the institute's flagship interdisciplinary training programme has been conducted at Dalhousie each summer since 1981. Further details are available in the training section of this website.

The Ocean Yearbook editorial office is also based at Dalhousie University. Details of this major IOI publication, which is produced in co-operation with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie Law School, are available on the Ocean Yearbook website. Electronic versions of the Tables of Contents of past volumes can also be found there.

For more information on the IOI and our programmes, please contact us at:

IOI-Canada
Dalhousie University
1226 LeMarchant Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3P7
Canada

Tel: +1 902 494 6918
Fax: +1 902 494 1334
E-mail: ioi@dal.ca