Countries targeted:
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal.
Home institutions:
- Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Sénégal https://www.ucad.sn/
 - Institute of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Douala, Cameroon https://www.ish.cm/
 - National Advanced School of Maritime and Ocean Science and Technology (NASMOST), University of Ebolowa, Cameroon https://enstmo-ueb.cm/
 - Université Nangui Abrogoua, Cote d’Ivoire https://www.univ-na.ci/
 - African Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience, University of Cape Coast (ACECoR-UCC), Ghana https://acecor.ucc.edu.gh/fr
 - Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin (IRHOB), Benin Republic
 - Department of Marine Science and Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria https://mst.futa.edu.ng/