ENSM’s presence at the UNOC
The 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference
2025 is the Year of the Sea and also the year of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC). This conference will be held in Nice from 9 to 13 June. It will be co-organised by the governments of France and Costa Rica, bringing together all the Member States of the United Nations, their Heads of State and Government, civil society, the private sector and others. This year’s theme is ‘Accelerating action and mobilising all stakeholders to conserve and sustainably use the oceans’.
The aim of the event is to support urgent and more far-reaching action to implement Sustainable Development Goal 14. Namely, to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
ENSM is proud to be taking part !
The École Nationale Supérieure Maritime will be taking part in the UNOC programme from 5 to 12 June. It will be represented by a delegation of students, teachers and its general management through conferences, speeches and operations to promote the school under the aegis of the Ministry of the Sea.
On the programme :
The ENSM is taking an active part in the various events organised during the Conference in Nice :
- Presentation of the ENSM and its courses by Imran, a student Captain 3000 Officer, and François Lambert, Director General of the ENSM, on the French Pavilion, green zone, on 6 June from 10.15am to 11.15am.
- Inauguration of the ‘La Baleine’ space on 8 June in the presence of the Heads of State and 17 students as well as teachers and the ENSM General Management.
- Helping to welcome and manage delegations throughout the event, with 3 volunteer students from ENSM
- The Living Ocean exhibition, co-organised by the French Maritime Cluster, to find out more about ENSM and, in particular, the profile of Maryam, a Merchant Navy Officer who graduated from ENSM in 2024.
In conjunction with the UNOC, Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary General of the IMO, had the honour of visiting the ENSM site in Marseille on 12 June. He and his delegation were welcomed by Frédéric Moncany de Saint-Aignan, Chairman of the ENSM Board of Directors, François Lambert, Director General, Fabrice Moret-Bailly, Director of the ENSM Marseille site, and Cyril Delher, Deputy Director.
This meeting will be an opportunity to discover the teaching facilities and to discuss the STCW reform with teachers and students, as well as the decarbonisation of maritime transport.
Practical information :
Dates: From 9 to 13 June 2025
- Third United Nations Conference on the Ocean
- Several sites in Nice: the Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, the Palais des Expositions, the Palais Sarde and the Port Lympia.