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Integrated Maritime Promotion ACTion

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

The IMPACT project will promote the results of a number of completed maritime vocational education and training (MVET) projects which directly address particular problems or deficiencies in MVET throughout Europe, and represent innovative use of ICT in lifelong learning. Initially, IMPACT will disseminate and transfer the innovative practices developed in several selected LLP projects to MVET prov ...
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SAIL AHEAD

Start date: Jan 1, 2011,

Seafarers in general have a job with extraordinary features. They usually work overseas for long periods, which puts a real pressure to their personal life and active citizenship. They work in alternating 4hour shifts and often have to face temperature changes of over 30 C every few days. Captains in particular have a multitude of managerial, technical and administrative tasks to perform and suffe ...
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Unification of Marine Education and Training

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) developed the first standard for Vocational Education and Training(VET) programmes for merchant navy officers (STCW) in 1978. A series of model courses for these programmes was introduced in 1991and were amended to include specific requirements in 1995. The standard was reviewed in 2003 and changes are being considered in 2010 in Manila. Despite these ...
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Maritime AIds' Development for Emergency Responses

The systematic attempt in developing accident or incident scenarios for training of young cadets and seafarers working at sea and ports in emergency situations in considered novel and has not done before. The project concerns those aspects of human error related to emergency situations which can be corrected through removal of existing deficiencies in Maritime Education and Training (MET) of cade ...
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SOS – Safety On See

Based on the fact that the causes of many of the accidents at sea are due to deficiencies in education and training of seafarers or disregard for current standards and regulations, the SOS project aims at improving safety at sea through improved education and training. It will by this way also overcome the lack of qualified personnel at Officers of Watch level and higher in the sea transportation ...
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Maritime Tests of English Language Plus - MarTEL Plus

The MarTEL Plus Project built upon the previously completed and widely successful MarTEL project, which implemented a series of English language tests for Cadets, Officers and Senior Officers in the Merchant Navy, incorporating the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP).The project transfers knowledge, generated during the previous project’s lifecy ...
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Short Course Programmes for Automated Systems in Shipping

The International standards for maritime education and training (MET) currently in place were introduced in 1995 (IMO STCW-95). Since 1995, there has been rapid revolution in design of ships and the equipment used in the navigation and propulsion systems on board these ships and yet there has been no serious attempt to revise the STCW and/or the International model courses such as IMO 7.03, 7.04, ...
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Maritime Tests of English Language - MarTEL

This project intends to establish a set of standards by transfer of innovation from existing English language standards and maritime English model courses such as International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) Standard Maritime Communication Phrases. This Project therefore is a maritime language competency assessment project for English language.Shipping is perhaps the most important of the world’s i ...
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European Boat Design Innovation Group

To provide innovative professional development and networking to marine industry employees by transferring embedded practices within the automotive industry in design visualisation; ergonomics and telematics; and sustainable materials via 3 courses and a networking framework.
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CAPTAINS: Communication and Practical Training Applied in Nautical Studies

The CAPTAINS project aimed to transfer innovation and to conjugate existing knowledge concerning linguistic, paralinguistic, cultural and discourse formation issues acting as barriers in ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore-to-ship and crew communication in the multi-cultural context of a ship particularly since most ships are now multilingual. 80% of maritime accidents are imputable to human factors, of w ...
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