How to avoid sea blindness: Maintaining and enriching the knowledge capital of the European maritime sector

Abstract

Knowledge and competence are vital resources for the European maritime transport sector that needs further development for meeting challenges from global competition and the necessity of creating local and global sustainable transport. This paper describes selected results of the EU funded KNOWME project which was concerned with the creation of a maritime industry knowledge network for raising the knowledge level of the sector’s human resources and improving its image and marketability among key decision-makers, the labour market, and the public. The KNOWME project focused on the importance of the human factor within the shipping industry, which is covered by the European Commission’s ‘Maritime Transport Strategy 2009-2018’.

Citation

Jürgensen, F., Lobrigo, E., Neumann, S., Pawlik, T., Stantchev, D., & Wilmsmeier, G. (2015). How to avoid sea blindness: Maintaining and enriching the knowledge capital of the European maritime sector. In European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism and Ports (ECONSHIP2015): Shipping and Ports at Crossroads: Competition, Global Sourcing and Regulatory Challenges

• Conference Name: European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism and Ports (ECONSHIP2015)
• Conference Location: Chios, Greece
• Start Date: Jun 24, 2015
• End Date: Jun 27, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Jul 1, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-08
• Deposit Date: Jul 18, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 18, 2019
• Book Title: European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism and Ports (ECONSHIP2015): Shipping and Ports at Crossroads: Competition, Global Sourcing and Regulatory Challenges
• ISBN: 978-618-82078-0-6
• Keywords: seafaring, image of the maritime sector, maritime career
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1975196
• Publisher URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20170824194334/http://www.econship2015.gr/index.php/proceedings