The advanced course on the “Sustainable Development of Coastal Communities” launched by CIHEAM Bari last September, finalized last November 16. It was a new high-level specialised programme funded by the Italian Cooperation and implemented by CIHEAM Bari in close collaboration with FAO within the context of the Blue Hope Initiative. The course of ten weeks ‘duration was held at the MARE Outpost – a branch office of CIHEAM Bari- in Tricase Porto (Le), where an integrated and inclusive growth process based on the concept of Port Museum is being implemented and is currently recognized as a real international case study (www.portomuseotricase.org). The course participants have been this year 14 male and female officials from the Ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries of Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Somalia, Tunisia. For more detailed information on the course, please visit: http://www.iamb.it/education/lifelong_learning/sustainable_development_of_coastal_communities