Fotolia_53554630_M.jpg Vasco da Gama Training for Greener and Safer Maritime Transport (VDG: TGSMT) SectoralSocial Dialogue Committee 28 March 2014 Overall presentation of the project
CPMR, SET UP IN 1973 ON THE BASIS OF A THREE FOLD OBSERVATION Need for greater involvement of the Regions in European integration Disparities in competitiveness between the central part of Europe and its peripheries Insufficient enhancement of Europe s maritime interfaces
MEMBERS : REGIONAL AUTHORITIES 150 Regions 28 EU member and non- member States 200 million inhabitants 6 Geographical Commissions
Where does this project come from? Aberdeen, 1 October 2010, CPMR General Assembly: vote on a Resolution In favour of an interregional mobility pilot action for young people in the maritime sector, to be supported by the European Union the Vasco da Gama Programme ; An ambition : propose the education pillar of Integrated Maritime Policy Why the Regions? Due to the fact that European Regions usually have significant powers in the fields of education and training; Why youth mobility? It is a unanimously recognised means to tackle the lack of attractiveness of maritime careers.
An umbrella initiative and a projects incubator Given the strong interest of the concept among Regions, a failure to have the crosscutting interest recognized, the shortage of public (regional) budgets, VDG upgraded as a label, under which projects, being either thematic or geographic, would be launched (with the support of EU tools: Interreg, Leonardo...); VDG TGSMT as a pioneer concrete project, approved by the European Commission in July 2013, legally contracted in December 2013, a 2-year project.
Islands Commission Atlantic Arc Commission North Sea Commission Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe Baltic Sea Commission Balkan and Black Sea Regional Commission Intermediterranean Commission
Priority Objectives Promote quality of education and training in the maritime transport sector to address three specific challenges: maritime safety, reducing environmental impact and increasing competitiveness of the sector; Launch the bases for European mobility for students, trainees, instructors/trainers/teachers, involving educational and training institutions, in line with the Maritime Erasmus concept; Increase cooperation between industry and European educational and training actors to improve seafarers competences and adapt to the requirements of the shipping industry;
Specific Objectives Establish a pioneering network of METs covering the European maritime territory Strengthen education and training in new technologies Prepare valuable pilot education and training programmes Prepare youth mobility schemes at European level in the maritime transport sector, in line with the maritime Erasmus concept (EC recommendations in "the European Union's Maritime Transport Policy for 2018 ); Translate the main environmental objectives of the European maritime transport policy, into maritime training programmes Exchange best practice and produce a series of useful recommendations to the sector and to institutions and thus generate a real European added value; Implement all appropriate dissemination actions; Grant a high level of attention and priority to the human dimension. Specific attentionwillbepaidtogenderequalityforstaffatsea.
Objectives reached via 4 Operational Work Packages WP 1: Training for maritime safety; WP 2: Training and maritime simulators; WP 3: Greening maritime transport; WP 4: Maritime Erasmus ; Run with the support of dedicated experts(subcontractors) Each WP supported by a Core Group of practitioners
PROJECT LEADER : CPMR Advisory Board - Project leader, CPMR -ETF -ECSA - European Network of Maritime Clusters - Antwerp Maritime Academy, BE -Varna Naval Academy, BG -Regions (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (DE), Bretagne (FR), Veneto (IT)) Work Package 1 Training for Maritime Safety Work Package 2 Training -Maritime Simulators Work Package 3 Greening Maritime transport Work Package 4 Work Package 5 Maritime ERASMUS Dissemination Work Package 6 Management Core Group WP 1 Linnaeus University - Kalmar Maritime Academy University Applied Sciences, HoschuleBremen, Lithuanian Maritime ETF Academy, Klaipeda, LT OceanoXXI Università Luav di Venezia Clean Shipping Index Core Group WP 2 ENSM Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime Maritime University of Gdynia Varna naval Academy Maritime Simulation Centre, Warnemunde Aboa Mare, Turku Antwerp Maritime Academy Core Group WP 3 Clean Shipping Index Prosea Foundation Merchant Navy Academy, Ionia Nisia ECSA IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute Core Group WP 4 CPMR Mecklenburg Vorpommern Catalunya ENSM Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime Linnaeus University - Kalmar Maritime Academy
A balanced network widely covering EU coastsand seas
Cross-fertilisation between 3 worlds: Industry/Education/Regions Thanks to ETF/ECSA/ ENMC at strategic/orientation levels; Via the composition of Core Groups; To be reinforced at operational level during WPs kick-off meetings
IMPLEMENTATION OF WP 1,2 & 3 WITH THE SUPPORT OF KALMAR ENSM CSI
Vasco Da Gama WP1 - Training For Maritime Safety Master Programme in Sustainable Shipping
DELIVERABLES A high-quality cross-national master programme in Sustainable Shipping at an advanced level A transnational programme, encouraging teacher, staff and student exchanges from different universities and countries A foundation for shared views on future Maritime Education and Training at post-graduate level An initiative to meet the demand for safety and environmental awareness in the future of shipping
WP2 Training and Maritime Simulators
DELIVERABLES Map of European maritime simulators Guidelines for: the introduction of simulation in a European maritime syllabus enhancing training of trainers & instructors in order to facilitate exchanges Ship Resource Management training (above all in congested waters) using new types of simulators
WP3 Greening Maritime Transport
DELIVERABLES Three workshops aimed at developing a module to be implemented in the Master Programme Sustainable Shipping A pilot programme Greening Maritime Transport A report with conclusions and recommendations on how to improve training in the field of greening maritime transport
WP4 MARITIME ERASMUS
DELIVERABLES Joint diagnosis on the strengths and weaknesses of maritime education in Europe Proposed scheme for a Maritime Erasmus: Content, organisation, length, financing, public concerned - October 2014 Signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (between 6 partners at least) - December 2014 Implementation of a pilot action involving 20 students and 4 teachers as a minimum - February 2015 to June 2015 Recommendations for possible future mainstreaming of the tested pilot schemes - September 2015
What we have already achieved Advisory Board meeting on 11 February DG Move «green light» on proposed arrangements Confirmedand promisinginterestand commitmentof «professionals» : ECSA/ETF/ENMC Need for better connections between operational work packages Genderequalityin maritime transport : «a trickyissue» Threemeetings of the SteeringCommittee(11/02, 05/03, 21/3) Kick Off meetings of WorkPackages (12/02 and 26 to 28/03) and a very nice Web Site, unanimously appreciated
Someof the challenges ahead From a patchwork towards an integrated project with contributions from WP 1/2/3/4: Enrich/open the projectwithexternalsources : existingprojects, ad hoc partners BringEMSA «on board» Feed the website with relevant info Start preparingrecommendations, continuouslyimprovedin the next3 semesters Making concrete the incubating mission : Ideas of thematic/geographic projects eligible to various EU tools
Weneedthe professionals«on board» Speakers for A high-quality cross-national master programme in Sustainable Shipping at an advanced level WP 1 Recommendations to improve the use of simulators WP2 Define best practice recommendations on environmental awareness -WP 3 SWOT analysis of maritime education in the EU WP 4 Etc.
A promising«vdg community»!
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