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    Mr George Owen (Harry), a fresh graduate of University of Sussex, United Kingdom has joined internship program in
    Nepal to start from beginning of March, 2012. He will conduct a survey on women in aquaculture program and/or help
    a professor of IAAS, Rampur various on-station and on-farm research projects.

    Two students, named; Milan van der Velden and Lennart Teunissen, from the University of HAS Den Bosch
    University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands have joined internship at RIA1, Hanoi, Vietnam from mid-February,
    2012. They will be helping a lecturer who is carrying out a research project on fish genetics/biodiversity.

    David Garcia Nieto from University of Barcelona, Spain joined internship from the end of January and completed early
    helping a scientist at WorldFish Center head office based in Penang, Malaysia.

    Aqua-Internship Coordinator presented paper on Aqua-Internship program during ASEM-Aqua and/or Aqua-tnet
    progress meeting in Faro, Portugal during September 7-9, 2011 providing detailed information. About 100 lecturers /
    professors and industry from Europe Universities actively participated during the workshop organized as part of the
    progress meeting of Aqua-tnet project, funded by EU under FP7 program.
     
    Alex Kent from UK completed internship from RIA1, Vietnam and Luca Miccichè a PhD student from Università di
    Palermo, Italy has joined internship in RIA1, Vietnam.

    Nicolas Mazurier from Spain completed volunteering work for Aquaculture without Frontiers project in Nepal (AwF-
    Nepal) in October 2011. He will be working with women's group and conduct a socio-economic survey to assess the
    impact of the project.

    Mr Bram Bloks, a Dutch student at Wageningen University joined internship program and completed his work for
    AwF-Nepal project in Nepal from October 2, 2011 for about three months.

    Joshua Cantrill has gained his experience working at AIT as an intern from Mid-August, 2011.

    The Meridiun Group which established a tilapia hatchery in Chittagong, Bangladesh received the award for producing
    high quality tilapia fry from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The manager of the hatchery was trained at AIT just
    before starting the hatchery. Within third year the hatchery was able to achieve 'Second Best' in quality in the whole
    country.

    Txomin Azpeitia an intern from Spain conducted a trial comparing the efficacy of a herb compared to methyl-
    testosterone in tilapia fry. Results will be posted later.

    Mark Woollard from Plymouth joined internship program at AIT from March 2nd. While having experience in tilapia
    hatchery, he is also assisted to publish two articles and setting up of an aqua-ponic system at AARM Hatchery.

    Saloni Shivam from Tamilnadu India completed her two weeks internship at AIT in June and July. She started her
    internship in Nepal with IAAS and then to Bangladesh with Bangladesh Agriculture University (BAU). One of her
    teachers will join AIT as an visiting fellow at from October until December 2011.

    Earlier Sonia and Susana from the same university in Portugal, who joined Aqua-Internship gave seminars. Please
    click on their names to watch their videos of their presentations. Sonia has also published a journal article. Please
    click here to read / download.

    Mikael Chavelley from Montpelier, France completed his internship and also graduated from his university. He met
    with Sonia and Susana, previous interns when they were at AIT for their internship.
    Click here to see the video...

    ISAFE Symposium!
    AARM-AIT successfully organized an International Symposium on Aquaculture and Fisheries Education (ISAFE)
    during 27 - 30 November 2009.
    For more info click here.....        
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Director, World Aquaculture Society, Asia Pacific
Coordinator, Aqua-Internship and Training Program
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Coordinator@aarm-asialink.info
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