DOMAR has at its disposal the research laboratories of the seven participating universities and the Marine Research Institute – CSIC, as well as the coastal laboratories of Coruña and Vigo of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography.
RESOURCES
University of Vigo
In addition to the schools and faculties, it has its own research centers that support the R & D activities and technology transfer to the students of the program:
University of Santiago de Compostela
University of A Coruña
University of Aveiro
University of Minho
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
University of OPorto
Marine Research Institute
Belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is attached to three scientific-technical areas: Natural Resources and Science, Food Technology and Agricultural Sciences, structured in four departments – Oceanography, Resources and Marine Ecology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, and Technology the food. Some of the researchers of the Marine Research Institute have been participating in the teaching of the masters and doctorates of the universities of Campus do Mar for years.
Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO)
It has two centers in Galicia: Vigo, founded in 1917, and A Coruña, created in 1968 (although the oceanographic campaigns in the area of influence of this center date from 1916). The IEO’s mission is research and technological development, including the transfer of knowledge about the sea and its resources. The research of the IEO has diversified to be able to respond to the needs of society for a rational use of the sea and the conservation of the marine environment, thus continuing with its advisory work to the Public Administration and representation of Spain in the majority of international scientific and technological organizations related to the sea and its resources. As with the IIM researchers, some of the doctors from IEO-Vigo and IEO-A Coruña, have been participating in the teaching of the masters and doctorates of the universities that make up this group for years and have been thesis directors PhDs from registered students in Spanish and Portuguese universities (and other European universities). It has the largest fleet of oceanographic research vessels in Spain.
