Application

 

Thank you for wishing to apply.  However, please do make yourself familiar

with all the important pages in this web site, especially this page.  We

recommend that you apply early as the number of places is limited to twenty

and prices increase later.

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Steps

Please follow the sequence of steps below:

 

• Read all pages in this web site and make sure that you have understood everything.

  • If you have questions, please send us email oceans.climate at gmail.  Please make sure that an answer to your question is not already somewhere on the web site.

    • (You have a search box in the footer, but it does not seem to work very well.  You can also use google advanced search and include your search term in addition to 'site:https://oceansclimate.wixsite.com'.)

 

• Carefully read the 'Note about commitment' (below), and decide how you stand in regard to that.

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• Fill out and send the application form (see below); you will receive an automatic email acknowledgement.
   

• Wait until your application has been accepted, that is, until you have been officially admitted into the school.  You will get an email notifying you and telling you what to do next, which basically is to register/pay.
   

• Pay the full amount; you will be able to pay on line with a credit card.  On receipt of payment, you will be registered.​

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Note about commitment

Because the learning will take place collectively, along with other participants, your presence throughout the School is crucial.  In other words, your contribution to the School and to other participants' learning is vital, and so we require that participants be present and engage from start to finish for the whole School.  Also, in order to obtain your certificate, you will need to be present and active for the whole School.

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Thus, in the application form, we invite you to make a statement or promise or commitment that provides the right reassurance that you will be present and contribute right from the start until the very end.  Remember that this promise is towards everyone in the School, as well as to yourself and the facilitators.

• If, for example, you are thinking that you might take part for a few hours, then disappear for a day and then return at the end, or that you might skip a day, it would be better not to apply.  If you are entertaining the idea of slipping in and out, as the fancy takes you, then please do not apply.  If you think that you will join us for 90% of the School and then drop out towards the end, we advise you not to apply.  Any of the above is unfair on other participants.​

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Application form

In order to attend the School, you need to apply and be admitted.  Click below for the application form; it will open in a new browser tab.  Try the short link first.  If it does not work, then use the long one.

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Short link: 

https://docs.google.com

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You will be able to pay after your application has been accepted.  If your application is successful, you will get an email letter officially accepting your application.  You will get further instructions on how to pay with your letter of acceptance or in a follow-up email.

 

If you do not wish to apply now, but you would like to show interest and to be kept informed, please fill in the form at the bottom of our landing page, here https://oceansclimate.wixsite.com/oceansclimate.  However, please note that, once the School is full, no more applications will be accepted.

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Admission

Admission to the School will be based on the quality of applications.  You are advised to apply early.  Qualified applicants will be notified of whether or not they are admitted, soon after we receive applications - normally within 10 working days.  The earlier you apply, the greater the chance of being admitted.

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Please remember that each session will accommodate up to a maximum of twenty participants.  This means that you should apply as early as possible.

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Payment (section to be revised)

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• After your application has been accepted and you have been been admitted to the
  School, you will receive an email notifying you of this.

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• Your email notification of acceptance will contain a URL (web link).  When you click
  on the link in the email, it will take you to the website of the Open Ocean University (OOU) (Université Internationale de la Mer). 

 

• On this OOU website, you will be able to pay with a credit card, using a standard secure, online payment system.

  • Please note that a credit card is the only way to pay.

  • Unfortunately, we cannot accept bank transfers.

  • We cannot accept card numbers by phone

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• Follow the instructions on the OOU website.  It will take you through several pages; on each one you will enter information.

  • One of the pages asks you to choose the type of 'ticket'.  This concerns your category of participant.  Please see the Fees page here for details.

  • Please be careful to select the correct category.

  • If you are in a low- or middle-income economy, you will normally have been given a code to enter into the ticket selection page of the OOU.  Please see the Fees page here for details.  This code will give you a 20% reduction.

  • If you have been given a reduction code in error, please do not use it and let us know.

  • If you have not been given a code, but you think that you qualify, please be in touch by email before you attempt to pay.

  • Be sure to use the same name as the one that you used in your Application.

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• Registration is complete once (a) you have paid and (b) we have been able to verify that the payment has been received.

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• ​The payment system should normally provide you with immediate confirmation of payment and also send you your 'ticket' by email, which you can also download as a pdf file.

  • For your records, and in case of any problem, keep a copy of this confirmation (eg, screen capture), but do not include any card number.

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• Send your payment receipt details in a short email immediately after you have paid, but do not send any sensitive information, like credit card or ban account numbers, by email. 

  • Mention: First and FAMILY names, date of payment, amount in €, any other information.  We will acknowledge this email.

  • Send your email to uim.cagnes at gmail.c..  This email should only be used for payment matters, and not for inquiries about the School, programme or other matters of substance.

  • It may take a short while (up to three days) for payment to reach us and be verified.​
     

• Once we have verified your payment you will get an email confirming full registration and enrolment in the School.

  • Be sure to keep an eye on your email in case we need to contact you urgently about any payment problems.

  • About 10 days before the start, you will get an email, with further information for participation.

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Attendance & Certificate

 

As the summer school forms an organic whole, it requires that you participate

for the full course.  Each part of the course feeds into the next, with

culmination in debriefing sessions, which all participants are required to

attend.  The course will be intensive, but short - the equivalent of three full

days, spread over two weeks.  We also ask you to fill in the feedback form at the end, and another about one month later.

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An official certificate of attendance will be provided for each participant who is present throughout the School and who fills out the feedback forms.  Absence of any kind for any reason will disqualify you from receiving the certificate.  So please be sure that you will 'stay the course' and that you will be present and actively involved throughout all the days of the course, including the debriefing and feedback.

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