IMO Internship Programme - Opportunity and Challenges for Novice Maritime Researchers

Abstract

Internships provide an opportunity to students to imbibe valuable practical experience in addition to the theoretical classroom knowledge. Internships could be either work related or offering research opportunities and aimed at developing respective skills. International Maritime Organization (IMO) offers an internship programme for masters and PhD students focused on research activities. The paper discusses the IMO internship programme considering other such programmes offered by international organizations in the UN system. The challenges in utilizing IMO Internship Programme by students as novice maritime researchers are also examined through a survey conducted of nine universities from seven countries in Asia and discussed.