Ningbo University Center for Ocean Education

The Marine Education Research Center of Ningbo University was established in October 2016, with the mission of being committed to building an exchange platform for research and achievements related to marine education, a talent cultivation platform, a dissemination platform, and a literature and data platform. Its goal is to gradually form a marine education research center based in eastern Zhejiang, facing the Yangtze River Delta, and radiating throughout the country, as well as a training base for marine education talents in China. The center is positioned as a research-oriented characteristic think tank for marine education in China and was selected into the CETTE Double First-Class University Education Think Tank in November 2018. Under the leadership of Teacher Liu Xunhua, the Marine Education Research Center is confident of achieving further success.

On April 15, 2024, the project led by Professor Liu Xunhua, "Research on the National Marine Strategy Education System," was approved for establishment, achieving a breakthrough of zero for major research projects of the Ministry of Education's Philosophy and Social Sciences Research in Ningbo University. The project is based on the "unprecedented changes in the world in a century" and the "overall strategic situation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Focusing on the connotation system, logical system, practical system, and promotion system of the "National Marine Strategy Education System," through research on the marine education policies and practices of the United Nations and major maritime countries, starting from the perspective of Chinese marine civilization and based on the idea of a maritime community with a shared future, and guided by problems, it conducts systematic research on the three major fields of school marine education, social marine education, and marine safety education, as well as the five special items of professional marine education, technological marine education, industrial marine education, marine cultural education, and marine literacy education. It promotes the transformation of the research paradigm of marine education, builds Chinese standards and promotion strategies for marine education, and conducts the integrated construction of the strategic layout, concept and system, institutional mechanism, top-level design, content and method, expression paradigm, practical promotion, and guarantee system of the national marine strategy education system with a "Chinese stance and international perspective."

On June 15, 2024, the Academic Seminar on Marine Education and innovative talent Training and the opening report of the major project of Philosophy and Social science research of the Ministry of Education "National Marine Strategy Education System Research" was held in Ningbo. Well-known domestic experts and scholars gathered at the bank of the Yongjiang River to discuss and exchange together, and to feel the pulse for the in-depth study of the major topic "National Marine Strategy Education System", which is conducive to further promoting the theory and practice of Marine education in China, and helping the training of innovative Marine talents. On November 14 of the same year, the Forum on Emerging interdisciplinary Construction under the background of maritime power and the Seminar on China's Independent Knowledge System of Marine Education were successfully held in Ningbo University. This is an important academic discussion in the field of Marine education and research to implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and "strengthen the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines and interdisciplinary disciplines". With the theme of building China's independent knowledge system for MARINE EDUCATION and serving the construction of a powerful education country, this conference will launch a new journal of MARINE EDUCATION STUDIES (Marine Education Research) and discuss new textbooks of Marine Education. It is committed to exploring a new path for the cross-disciplinary development of Marine pedagogy and the independent knowledge system of Chinese Marine pedagogy.

Marine Education Research Center of Ningbo University public account: Marine Education Research.