The Working Group on Research Project is responsible for coordinating the IAMU research project system.
The main tasks of the Working Group are endorsing referees selected by the Secretariat to evaluate research applications and final reports, making recommendation on the evaluation results to the international Executive Board (IEB), selecting winning research applications according to a prescribed procedure and making recommendation on the selection result to IEB, recommending themes of research projects annually with considering the contents of the annual report prepared by the Liaison Committee, and Organizing working group meetings twice a year, in February and September.
The WG members are nominated from Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), for FY2025, member universities of AAC are Liverpool John Moores University, Australian Maritime College, and AMET University. Notably, all WG members for FY2025 are female faculty members, reflecting the strength and contribution of women in IAMU’s academic network.