Improvement of the labor force competitiveness in Latvian-Lithuanian Maritime Sector
| Approximate total Project budget in EUR: | 735 681.00 |
| ERDF co-financing in EUR: | 625 328.85 |
| Project Duration: | 04/2009 - 10/2011 |
| Priority: | Encouragement of Socio Economic Development and Competitiveness of the Region |
| Direction: | 1. Facilitating Business, Labour Market and R&T Development |
| Application Call: | 1 |
Summary Description of the Project:
Maritime industry in Klaipeda and Kurzeme regions is linked to the economy grown of Latvia and Lithuania. The competitiveness of port and shipping companies directly depends on a supply of the professional workforce. At the moment it is continuously decreasing every year and affects negatively the whole maritime sector.
Two educational institutions Liepaja Maritime College and Lithuanian Maritime Academy joined efforts to solve this problem. By implementing the project both institutions will cooperate:
- to ensure the Lifelong Learning opportunity and qualified assistance to seafarers who are ready to take a higher degree or to certify their marine rank according to Lithuanian and Latvian laws, regulating seafarers’ training;
- to rise the quality of educational services by upgrading professional qualification and teaching competencies of lecturers;
- to encourage students exchange and mobility between institutions and to improve studies’ infrastructure (training facilities, repairing laboratories and installing Global Maritime Distress and Safety System simulators), creating up-to date teaching/learning materials.
Progress report:
- Liepaja Maritime College created program plans and contextualized them with Lithuanian Maritime Safety Administration. As a result, the following programs were developed: “Qualification upgrading for management level seafarers in Deck Dep.: Ship Masters, Chief Mates, Officers of the Watch“ (80 hours) and „Qualification upgrading for management level seafarers in Engine Dep.: Chief Engineers, Second Engineers, Watch Engineers“(80 hours).
- Lithuanian Maritime Academy lecturers started preparing a handbook according to approved study programs.
- In order to develop high quality programs and to get recent learning materials, a group of lecturers from Lithuanian Maritime Academy and Liepaja Maritime College updated qualification in modern maritime education and training centre in Warsash Maritime Academy (United Kingdom) and attented courses “Training the Trainer”.
- One of the Project objectives was to update the GMDSS training course program in compliance with new international and national legal requirements in Latvia and Lithuania. The following programs in both countries were negotiated with Maritime Administrations in Lithuania and Latvia and finally updated. In Lithuania: "GMDSS course for General Operator Certificate (GOC for GMDSS)" - 146 hours); „GMDSS course for Restricted Operators Certificate (ROC for GMDSS)" - 51 hours; "GMDSS course requalifying retraining from Restricted Operators Certificate to General Operator Certificate (from ROC to GMDSS to GOC to GMDSS)" - 106 hours. In Latvia - "GMDSS course for General Operator Certificate (GOC for GMDSS)" 132 hours and the 72 hours refreshing GMDSS training course program for General Operator Certificate (GOC for GMDSS)"
- Together with updated GMDSS course, both insitutions started to prepare a handbook.
- GMDSS laboratory renovation was partly completed in Liepaja Maritime College and fully completed in Lithuanian Maritime Academy.
More information about the Project:
Lead partner:
| Lietuvos aukštoji jūreivystės mokykla |
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I.Kanto 7, Klaipėda, LT-92123 , Lithuania Tel.: +370397260 Fax: +370397240 Website: www.lmc.lt Contact person: Inga Bartusevičienė E-mail: i.bartuseviciene@lmc.lt |
