All members of this project are member of EDINNA - Education in Inland Navigation. EDINNA is an association of 26 European IWT e&t institutes from 15 countries. The EDINNA association recognizes that all members use the same European waterway system and have a different background in various educational systems in Europe. It is the aim of EDINNA to achieve a harmonized education, training and certification system for inland waterway personnel. This in order to raise the level of safety on all navigable waterways as well as the mobility of staff within the sector in the European Union as well as the shift from e.g. the maritime sector to the Inland Waterway sector. This project will analyse in depth how the maritime sector is realising the implementation of the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) by means of the didactical use of simulators. It will then review in which form this approach is feasible for the inland navigation sector and set up a process for establishing benchmarks for a didactical manual including a train-the-trainer course aiming the implementation of STCIN. A methodology for the development of a didactical manual will be established.