AQUATT

AquaTT is located in the heart of Dublin, Ireland, and has many close links with Irish universities as well as the aquaculture industry. It is run by a Board of 10 Directors from all sectors of the European sector. In 2000 AquaTT produced the "White Paper on Education and Training in Aquaculture in the New Millennium". It runs AQUAT-NET part of a larger SOCRATES Thematic Network, a higher education forum to identify key curriculum developments, amongst which current EU developments in the Diploma Supplement, the Bologna Process, and the creation of new European Masters loom very large.

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AquaTT, an aquaculture-specific European Network consisting of producers, universit-ies, research organisations and industry members has been committed to aquaculture education and training, and technology transfer since its establishment in 1992. AquaTT is a non-profit-making organisation, currently with more than 650 members. It has organised more than 500 student and staff exchanges and has developed and run many workshops, vocational short courses as well as longer, designated "excellent" courses in its remit to support the aquaculture sector.

AquaTT is involved in many innovative educat- ional and dissemination initiatives: it contributes to AQUAFLOW (Dissemination of Aquaculture R&D results), to the FEAP Profet Workshops, and has just developed a new website, www.piscestt.com, which houses an educational database for aquaculture, hot topics for non-aquaculturists as well as career promotion for aquaculture.