ECSA launched the SKILLSEA project, which aims to ensure that Europe will be in line with the digital transformation and ensure that the region’s maritime professionals possess key digital, green and soft management skills for the rapidly changing maritime labour market.
Accordingly, the four-year SKILLSEA project is launched with the aim of ensuring that the region’s maritime professionals possess key digital, green and soft management skills for the rapidly changing maritime labour market.
It seeks to not only produce a sustainable skills strategy for European maritime professionals, but also to increase the number of these professionals – enhancing the safety and efficiency of this vital sector.
The project aims to:
- Analyze the effect of technological developments on the industry’s skills requirements
- An even better match between the industry’s skills needs and the education and training of maritime professionals
- Overcome barriers to the mobility of maritime professionals
- Improve cooperation and synergy between education providers, maritime authorities and the industry
- Ensure that Europe retains a world-leading access to maritime skills and experience for improved competitiveness
- The project runs from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022.
The future-proof project is developed by the industry’s social partners, the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and is comprised of a consortium from national maritime authorities, shipping companies, shipowners’ associations, maritime trade unions and maritime education providers from 16 countries in Europe.
