The Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences is a Colombian-German consortium with a mission aiming at:

• providing primarily Ph.D. level education in marine sciences,

• conducting cutting-edge research under the main topic “Coastal Colombian resources and environmental changes”, and

•  promoting marine sciences in northern South America. 

The CEMarin is primarily funded by the program “Centres of Excellence for Research and Teaching” of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within the framework of the “Foreign Science Initiative 2009” of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. Co-funding comes from the Colombian and German partners of the CEMarin.

The CEMarin is one of four DAAD Centres of Excellence for Research and Teaching worldwide.