Based upon the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 7 November 2019, the Institute looks forward to welcoming participants for the 'ITLOS-Nippon Foundation Capacity-Building and Training Programme on Dispute Settlement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea'. This capacity building training programme is focused on the provision of courses on international procedural law to the programme fellows, termed ‘Nippon Fellows’. Funded by the Nippon Foundation, the training programme includes a general introduction to the work of the Institute as well as specific presentations on different facets of international procedural law based on the Institute’s projects. It will afford Nippon Fellows the opportunity to gain an insight into the work of the Institute and to increase their knowledge of the thematic field of international procedural law.