Competence Based Education and Training for Inland Navigation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Competence Based Education and Training for Inland Navigation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Since 2008 the key stakeholder in the Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) sector are cooperating towards the harmonisation and modernisation of professional qualifications in inland navigation. These stakeholders consists of: European Commission (DG Move), River Commissions (Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR), International Sava River Basin Commission and the Danube Commission), EU Social Partners (European Skippers Organisation (ESO), European Barge Union (EBU) and European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) as well as the European IWT education and training (e&t) institutes (EDINNA). Following the activities in the FP7 project PLATINA, the European Commission installed in 2012 a Common Expert Group on Professional Qualifications in Inland Navigation (CEG) co-chaired by the CCNR, in order to start the revision of the 96/50/EC in place. This resulted in 2016 in a proposal from the European Commission for a directive on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications in Inland Navigation. One key item of this directive is the fact that the competences crew members on board of inland vessels should possess are laid down in an Annex, based on a series of research activities executed. The second key item is the fact that the students that will pass an exam in line with the new directive, will receive a Union certificate, increasing labour mobility throughout the EU. On the 27 December 2017, Directive 2017/2397 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the recognition of professional qualifications in IWT and repealing Council Directives 91/672/EEC and 96/50/EC has been published in the Official Journal of the EU. For this reason, the time has come to support the implementation of the competence based IWT e&t system throughout the EU. COMPETING will develop curricula and lesson materials, as well as a Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) system, to ensure the highest level of quality concerning the implementation of future proof IWT e&t

Project Website

http://www.iwt-competencies.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 938570 Eur

Project Coordinator

STICHTING STC-GROUP & Country: NL

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA
• SVEUCILISTE U RIJECI, POMORSKI FAKULTET
• STICHTING DUNAMARE ONDERWIJSGROEP
• CENTRUL ROMAN PENTRU PREGATIREA SI PERFECTIONAREA PERSONALULUI DIN TRANSPORTURI NAVALE
• LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC DIERNA
• INSTITUT POUR LE TRANSPORT PAR BATELLERIE – INSTITUUT VOOR HET TRANSPORT LANGS DE BINNENWATEREN
• KONINKLIJKE BLN SCHUTTEVAER