GMU Students Present Their Scientific Paper at IAMU AGA 2025 in Chennai (Madras), India

From 14 to 18 October 2025, two GMU students, Wikoria Dumińska and Jakub Kulbat of the Faculty of Navigation, were part of a Gdynia Maritime University delegation led by HM The Rector, Professor Adam Weintrit, that attended the IAMU Annual General Assembly 2025 Conference in Chennai, India. 

The student’s paper, ‘The Role Of GIS in Oil Pollution Prevention’, which was chosen in the top ten from among a few dozen papers submitted from around the world, was presented during the conference, while for the remainder of the event, the students took part in both student and academic panels as well as in project presentations and poster sessions. 

Together with the Director of the Ship Operations Department, Captain Dariusz Jellonnek, and the rest of the delegation, including Professor Adam Weintrit, Dr Adam Przybyłowski, Professor Captain Paweł Kołakowski, and Weronika Ceynowska, the students also took part in a study visit to the Academy of Maritime Education and Training (AMET) and the AMET Institute of Science and Technology's MAERSK Centre of Excellence, also in Chennai. The delegation was familiarised with AMET’s modern solutions supporting maritime education, featuring a wide range of simulators from different manufacturers (Kongsberg, Wärtsilä, ARI Simulation), dedicated fire-fighting training grounds and classrooms, and a training pool adapted for rescue training. The local AMET students showed the visitors around the lecture halls, laboratories, and other elements of the University’s teaching and learning infrastructure. They also gave a talk on AMET University’s operations in terms of STCW-compliant standards of education, as well as day-to-day student life. At the end of the visit, each participant planted a tree labelled with their own name and surname, which was intended to symbolise an openness to interdisciplinarity and multiculturalism in the further development of maritime.

Together with the delegation from Gdynia Maritime University, they took part in the opening and closing ceremonies summarising the conference and the work of the IAMU Presidium and Committees, as well as in the cultural panel, during which Polish folk costumes, which drew attention of guests from around the world, provided an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences on cultural differences and educational standards in the maritime sector. 

The students’ participation in AGA25 was made possible through the support of a project coordinated by Dr Sambor Guze, GMU Deputy Rector for Education and Student Affairs, entitled ‘A Sea of Competences – Modern Education for the Needs of the Maritime Economy.’ The project is co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund Plus under the European Funds for Social Development 2021–2027 programme.