The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) and the French Maritime Academy (École Nationale Supérieure Maritime) have inked a new deal in which Jamaican maritime and logistics students could soon get the opportunity to do part of their academic studies in France.
The two tertiary institutions have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to discuss among other things, student and staff exchanges. The MOU was signed on Wednesday (July 26) at the end of the second edition of the CMU Lecture Series at the institution’s Palisadoes main campus.
CMU’s lecture series featured the French Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville, who is in Jamaica on official business.
Berville was on hand to witness as CMU president Professor Andrew Spencer and the general director of the French Maritime Academy, François Lambert, sign the MOU, which now formalises links started in 2022 between the two maritime academies to cooperate in education and research, particularly in the fields of navigation, energy transition, digitalisation, cyber-defence, logistics, offshore industry, and management.
For Spencer, “these exchanges can help Jamaican and Caribbean nationals seize the opportunities presented by the trillion-dollar maritime industry because it gives them the world-class experiences they need to navigate the global sector.”
He added that “this is especially significant when one considers how training in the sector can change the lives of individuals and by extension the communities and countries from which they come.”
French Ambassador to Jamaica, Olivier Guyonvarch, was one of the architects of this relationship, enabling the CMU and the French Maritime Academy to identify joint projects in the interests of both France and Jamaica.
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