Reaching people through interactive education. Connect with ocean-interest partners. Bridging scientific knowledge from university to society. Enhancing National Ocean Literacy through partnership. Instill Ocean Literacy principle through local perspective
Profesor Dato' Dr. Mazlan Abd Ghaffar
– Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
“We believe that with this smart partnership between UMT and RHB Islamic, tremendous opportunities will be opened for us to reach out to communities, and to enhance the ocean literacy among the public. Ocean literacy is vital to advocate towards greater awareness for the sustainable use of ocean resources and its conservation, as an ocean literate person will be able to understand the functioning of the ocean and our life relation with it.”
Dato’ Adissadikin Ali
– CEO/ Managing Director, RHB Islamic Bank Berhad
“Through this collaboration with UMT, we aim to raise public awareness in the conservation and environmental sustainability of the marine ecosystem which is in-line with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) particularly SDG14 (Life Below Water) and SDG17 (Sustainable development through global partnerships.”
Ocean Hope is an outreach program initiated by the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT). There are FIVE pillars of our Ocean Hope Project:
5 Pillars of Ocean Hope project:
We seek to enhance ocean literacy among Malaysian
We empower youth to become environmental champions
We spread awareness through community engagement and outreach programs
We include our ocean experts at UMT in an effort to bridge the scientific knowledge from university to society
We connect with ocean-interest partners to spread the outreach and to support marine conservation efforts
Ranging from national governments to knowledge institutions, and from non-profit organisations to companies.