Maritime Innovative Network of Education for Emerging Maritime Issues Erasmus Project

Project Title

Maritime Innovative Network of Education for Emerging Maritime Issues

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 : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

Maritime shipping industry is one of the most dynamic economic sectors throughout Europe due to the constant changes of its development needs. It is also closely linked to the changes in Marine Sciences and IT Technologies. Consequently, education and training in marine sciences has to follow closely the industry’s trends in order to keep pace with the new competencies required by the development of maritime transportation technologies. Project MINE-EMI is focused at elaboration of Joint Master Program (JMPs) that facilitate developing skills and competences to raise awareness on emerging maritime issues in the wider Black Sea Basin in order to promote sustainable management of the maritime sector in the Black Sea basin. It involves representatives from the business sector and local administrations in order to fill the gap between the requirements in the maritime sector (management, transport operations, logistic) and the current lacking offer of updated courses in that matter.
In the longer term, the objective is to establish a “Black Sea Community of MET (Maritime Education and Training) Institutions ” to contribute for boosting sustainable European maritime economy, Blue Growth, and Integrated Maritime Policy implementation by providing modern and adequate E&T.
In line with the main objectives of the EU Integrated Maritime Policy – more coherent approach to maritime issues, with increased coordination between different policy areas – the project contributes to achieving efficient, safe, secure and environmentally shipping and logistic operations and the overall efficiency of tackling the maritime issues, through:
– promotion of the quality of education and training in the MET sector to address the specific maritime challenges and prepare the future managers and experts applying innovative methods, practical oriented approach and e-learning model;
– Facilitation the European mobility for students and teachers, involving educational and training institutions that wish to contribute to overcoming these challenges, in line with the “Maritime Erasmus” concept;
– Cooperation between European MET organizations and industry in the field of education and training for managing the issues in maritime sector for upgrading competences and adapting to the requirements of the maritime industry.
PARTNERS:
1 Piri Reis University – Lead Partner, PRU
2 Constanta Maritime University, CMU
3 Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, NVNA
4 University of the Aegean, UAEGEAN
5 Marine Cluster Bulgaria, MCB
6 Municipality of Piraeus, MP
7 Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, CPMR
All the partners have a consolidate experience based on its scientific/ academic and professional background, direct management of maritime scientific and vocational education and close links with stakeholders. The HEIs have been previously involved in similar projects and have experience not only to lead the IOs development, but to contribute best to the internationalization of the work.
The project implementation is based on the progressive model, including preparatory activities, development, testing and finalization of JMPs. The preparatory activities consist of a need analysis involving industrial and governmental stakeholders in order to design a syllabus that corresponds to the contemporary needs and requirements and specific case studies at European level to identify, select and analyze accordingly the specific subject areas of maritime issues.
In the development phase, educational material will be elaborated, collected, evaluated and selected, satisfying the criteria set by the stakeholders. While PRU, NVNA and UAEGEAN will work on theoretical part of the teaching materials, CMU will mainly work on practical side, creating scenarios for maritime simulators on the specific topics of the subject. The both parts will be developed on coordinated way in order to synchronize all the elements. A unified assessment system will be set up and implemented.
PRU will led the integration of the developed modules in the JMPs. The lead partner will develop JMPs course catalogue together with the partner’s HEIs for better adaptation to institutions specificities and to offer the courses outside the partnership framework.
The produced material will be tested and evaluated during the mobility events. For the evaluation of the content, the teaching style, predefined assessment methods will be used, so to get measurable and comparable results. The feedback received will be then used to finalize the courses.
The project derives from the experiences and needs of the participating institutions to raise awareness on emerging maritime issues. The beneficiaries of the project will be equipped with innovative tools for MET in master degree higher education that can be directly exploited and applied to the every-day life of the HEIs in practical, concrete level.The novelty of the project is determined by the innovative multi-dimensional approach, depending on objectives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 296215 Eur

Project Coordinator

T. C. Piri Reis Universitesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• MARINE CLUSTER BULGARIA SDRUZHENIE
• UNIVERSITATEA MARITIMA DIN CONSTANTA
• PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOU
• DIMOS PEIRAIA
• Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy
• CONFERENCE DES REGIONS PERIPHERIQUES MARITIMES D EUROPE – ASSOCIATION