O EU TEN-T Program it will co-finance with almost €1,5 million the creation of a multi-level university program in the field of multimodal transport. The program is aimed at graduates and professionals looking for specific knowledge in the maritime and logistics domain.
Several EU universities, IT companies and organizations have joined forces to create a Masters, Postgraduate Diploma, Certificate and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program in order to develop the concept of the European Maritime Zone.
The program is aimed at graduates and professionals from the various sectors in the multimodal transport chain. It will address topics such as alternative technologies and fuels, and their impact on ports, logistics, damage control and evacuation/crisis management operations on large passenger ships, as well as their influence on port operations.
In order to create a complete training program, vocational education and training sub-programs will be included.
The universities participating in the project are: University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (United Kingdom), Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) and New University of Lisbon ( Portugal). Course content and other relevant related information will be available through the portal www.onthemosway.eu.
The project was selected for EU funding with the support of external experts under the TEN-T 2013 multi-annual call for proposals, «Motorways of the Sea». Its implementation will be supervised by the INEA, the Executive Agency for Innovation and Networks of the European Commission.
Project completion is scheduled for December 2015.
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