Simulation of Sea Accidents For Effective Responses Erasmus Project

Project Title

Simulation of Sea Accidents For Effective Responses

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) have been promoting “Safety Culture” for the last decade with a great deal of emphasis on human elements, particularly how human errors have led to great loss of life and property (IMO, 2013). It has also been acknowledged that similar accidents/incident occur with repeatedly as human error is proven to be the main cause. Learning from accidents/incidents are one of the good practise that IMO promotes hence it has not been taken into consideration in training seafarers and industry would benefit from a training tool and programme for its sea-going staff (ACAR, 2011).

This project concerns an innovation development from existing data on accidents/incidents for the creation of a range of scenarios in order to create “Safety Culture” for the education and training of seafarers. The intention of this project is to develop experimental knowledge in order to training seafarers via learning from past accidents and incidents. The project will break these accidents and incidents into several categories preparing a knowledge-base of the selected scenarios, simulate them in online using advanced bridge as well as integrated and full-mission simulators, and train seafarers working on board vessels.

The main aims and objectives are:
– To improve safety at sea and at ports by facilitating experimental knowledge and create a knowledge-base of scenarios for training of seafarers
– To develop intelligent exercises based on scenarios created for application in bridge as well as in the full mission simulators
– To assess the learning of users via scenarios developed

The partnership is composed of six major education and training centres, private companies, universities in several EU countries supported by their awarding, accrediting and/or certificating authorities. The main tangible outcome is transfer of knowledge from

The main intangible outcome is that knowledge needed for example by seafarers on board a vessel to recognise and tackle similar accidents/incidents to be avoided as well as investigating various national and international databases for identification of scenarios and their preparation for inclusion in the existing MET programmes and for the training of seafarers working at sea. The impact will be substantial since this project is intended to introduce innovative training and assessment tools to embed into experimental knowledge in MET programmes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 244810 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lietuvos aukstoji jureivystes mokykla & Country: LT

Project Partners

• MARITIME INNOVATORS PROJE EGITIM DANISMANLIK TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• Academia Navala “Mircea cel Batran”
• Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy
• ESCOLA SUPERIOR NAUTICA INFANTE D.HENRIQUE
• AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA