Program :

09h00-09h20: Welcome

All participants are in place by 09:20 at the latest

09:30-10:30: High-level session in the presence of H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince

• Welcome address (Robert Calcagno)
• Presentation of the day’s program (Carl Gustaf Lundin)
• Southwest Indian Ocean: the importance of regional knowledge and cooperation in a complex geostrategic and socio-economic context (Dominique Benzaken, François Simard)
• Mission overview (Gilles Bessero)
• Video report
• The view from Mauritius (Rezah Badal, Director General of the Continental Shelf Department for the Administration and Exploration of Maritime Zones, Prime Minister’s Office)
• The Seychelles’ point of view (Mr. Jean-François Ferrari, Minister for Fisheries and the Blue Economy)

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-11:15: Indian Ocean mission sponsorships United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development and Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (Nick D’Adamo)

11:15-11:30: Mediation session: live feedback from Monaco’s Cours Saint-Maur

11:30am-1:00pm: Round table “The Invisible Island – Saya de Malha” (Francis Marsac, Priscilla Coopen, Prerna Roy, Nuette Gordon, Philippe Bouchet, Sheena Talma)

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Lunch break

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm: Mediation session: the onboard school

2:45pm-4:15pm: “Visible Islands” round table (Frauke Fleischer-Dogley, Dass Bissessur, Ranjeet Bhagooli, Jérôme Bourjea, Mattéo Contini, Gwennaïs Fustemberg, Olivier Brunel, Didier Zoccola, Heather Koldewey, Sheena Talma)

4.15pm-4.45pm: Coffee break

16h45-17h05: Ocean dynamics (Fabien Lombard, Nick D’Adamo, Margot Thibault)

5.05pm – 5.20pm: Mediation session: sponsoring Argo floats

5.20pm – 5.50pm: Presentation of artistic and audiovisual works resulting from the mission (Chloé Thibault, Elise Rigot, Rémi Leroy, Harald Pokieser, Stéphane Dugast, Nicolas Mathys)

17:50-18:00: Conclusions (Carl Gustaf Lundin, Gilles Bessero)

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