The main objective of development project is to develop and encourage IAMU activities, which means that projects are specifically for IAMU. A development project can therefore indluce but is not limited to developing teaching materials and textbooks that can be used by member universities. Each project is supervised by the Head of the Standing Committee based on the topic of the project. There are 2 projects which have been implimented for more than 2 years: one is for the establishment of benchmarking of maritime universities and the other is for the development of an online knowledge-based question depository.