Maritime Clusters represent strategic “policy actors” that support the sustainable growth and the competitiveness of the Blue Economy Sector across the European Union and, in particular, the Mediterranean Area. In this context, Clusters promote the uptake of innovation, knowledge transfer, financial access, ensuring that the support provided is effective and locally grounded. In the Mediterranean area, Maritime Clusters register a lack of Competitive Managerial Staff often without specific innovation and management skills or without specialization in specific areas such as, for instance, maritime spatial planning background.

At the same time, the necessity of more effective Entrepreneurial and Innovation skills for Maritime Clusters professionals continuously increases, and therefore it results essential to promote competitive profiles for Marine and Maritime Clusters across Europe and, specifically, in the Mediterranean Area.

At this purpose, the project aims at providing innovative and accessible tailor-made curriculum, knowledges, and skills; at enhancing the capacity building of Blue Clusters Managers; at producing a set of Recommendations for Blue Clusters Managers Training and capacity building, addressed to all the actors of the Blue Economy ecosystem.

The project is co-funded by Erasmus+, the EU Programme for education, training, youth and sport, in particular under the Key Action 2: Cooperation among Organizations and Institutions. It lasts 24 months, from December 2022 to December 2024. Under the coordination of ForMare – Polo Nazionale per lo Shipping the MarMED - MARitime cluster Management Education Development project consortium is composed of seven Partners and three Associated Partners, operating in the Mediterranean Area.

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More information about the project can be found on the project's official website.

The curriculum developed by the project consists of 75-hours of blended learning, developed as per below:

Section A: 40 hours of asynchronous e-learning (at own pace).

Section B: 16 hours study visit in Trieste Italy between 13-14 June 2024

Section C: 19 hours of online-live interactive discussion.

Course dates 13 May 2024 to 30 June 2024.

View the detailed itenary on the below link.

Application deadline: 18 April 2024

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