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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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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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