Kareline

Workpackage 1: Training for maritime safety

LED BY THE CPMR WITH THE SUPPORT OF KALMAR LINNAEUS MARITIME ACADEMY – KALMAR MARITIME ACADEMY

This work package aims to secure the future skills of seafarers through the design and testing of a cross-national sustainable shipping Master Programme within a network of European Maritime Academies.

The main important subject within the programme will be the management of operational activities at sea with focus on the interaction between societal interests, human actors, onboard technology and health and safety for involved people in harmony with a sustainable environment.

The public concerned by the various actions, presented below, will be higher education institutions, especially Maritime Academies.

The work will mainly be to put together a curriculum, get the first programme started and to evaluate the result. These actions will include members from European Maritime Education and Training (MET) institutions.

This Work Package will produce added value via:

• The preparation of a high-quality cross-national a one semester master programme in Sustainable Shipping at an advanced level to be implemented in 2015
• An initiative to meet the demand for safety and environmental awareness in the future of shipping;
• A shared view on future MET at advanced and post-graduate level;
• Teacher, staff and student exchanges
• Preparation of recommendations which may contribute to the evolution of EU toolbox in these fields
• Link with Industry & transport sectors
• Bring gender issue, strongly encouraging females to equally take place in a traditionally male dominant seafaring profession.

This work package will be supported by a Core Group matching METs with representatives of maritime actors having expressed their desire to support its activities:

•  Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Sciences  - Germany
• Lithuanian Maritime Academy, Klaipeda  -  Lithuania
• Oceano XXI  – Portugal
• Università Iuav di Venezia  - Italy
• European Transport Workers’Federation
• Clean Shipping Index  (also involved in the WP3 – Greening Maritime Transport)