Name of the Project: Innovative SOft SkilLs to Maritime Education and Trainings (iSOL-MET)
PROGRAMME: Erasmus+ – Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership for Higher Education
DURATION: 36 months – 01/09/2020 – 31/08/2023
TOTAL BUDGET OF THE PROJECT: 303,434.60 EUR
NVNA BUDGET: 39,508.00 EUR
BENEFICENT OF THE PROJECT – University of Aegean, Greece
- Conference Des Regions Peripheriques Maritimes D Europe – Association, France
- C. Piri Reis Universitesi, Turkey
- Universitatea Maritima Din Constanta, Romania
- Akademia Morska W Szczecinie Am, Poland
- PPP Learn Single Member Private Capital Company, Greece
OBJECTIVES
- Bridge the gap of shipping world requirements in respect to human resources soft skills and competences
- Bridge the needs of maritime professionals for ongoing career opportunities even after completing their sea service on board
- Bridge the experience gap of maritime universities’ students in respect to the on-board operations and the shipping practices
- Exchange best practices and cultural awareness on maritime education and shipping issues.
EXPECTED RESULTS:
- Maritime skills courses for multidisciplinary and multicultural groups of students – An comprehensive course program that will integrate International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) model course guidelines, practice-oriented, to link theory and practice through using maritime case studies, for cultivating specific soft skills
- Maritime Case Study Handbook – A collection of all case studies identified and analyzed during project’ life time. Case studies will be identified in close collaboration with the industry and will constitute an integrated educational material, designed to address current soft skills gaps, while providing to the educators with useful material in respect to the content and the teaching methods
- Guidelines for the development of soft skills educational material – Guidelines will be a practical set of recommendations to course designers (teachers) in developing, conducting and evaluating a course focusing on soft skills using cases studies.
- Soft skills evaluation tools – This is a set of tools that an educator or a manager can use for evaluating the soft skills competences of students or employees. The aim is the creation of an Assessment Center for systematizing the process of soft skills evaluation, through case studies, pre-defined check lists etc. Assessment Center will link the academia with the business world since, the case studies developed in combination with designed assessment tools will be used in the shipping industry in various ways (e.g. assess the competences of existing employees or for recruitment reasons).