organised by MATES

Maritime Alliance for fostering the European Blue economy through a Marine Technology Skilling Strategy

Throughout the course of its four-year run, the MATES project will mobilise and network multiple stakeholders throughout the maritime sector in Europe, in order to develop a cohesive and robust strategy to improve both the present, and possible future, skill gaps. In order to ensure this is done effectively, participants in the project will gather and update relevant information on sectoral strategies and skill gap analysis, with a particular focus on shipbuilding and offshore renewable energies value chains.

The project will simultaneously seek to upskill specific groups, ranging from unemployed, low to middle-skilled workers in shipbuilding and offshore energy value chain and university graduates with the skills most relevant to them, while also developing appropriate mixed training schemes.

Finally, the consortium will aim to develop a long-term Strategic Action Plan to capitalise on existing resources, mobilise funding, and ensure the sustainability and scalability of the project results.