The European Seatraining project for staff in European marinas is part of Europe’s Leonardo da Vinci vocational training programme and has been created with the objective of promoting a specific training model for managing personnel in nautical facilities. The project is led by the Institución de Estudios Portuarios of the Valencian Region (FEPORTS) and its partners are the European Federation of Yachting Harbours (Euromarina), the Federación
Española de Asociaciones de Puertos Deportivos y Turísticos (FEAPDT), Assonautica and INNOREG (Hungary), with the specific collaboration of the Fundación Comunidad Valenciana-Región Europea to promote the programme. The project has obtained financial aid from the EC’s Leonardo da Vinci programme to cover 75% of the total cost of 437.984 Euros.
The first meeting of the project’s partners took place in Brussels on 5 February at which the aims of Seatraining were presented by Julio Martinez of FEPORTS, Xavier Mangrané of Euromarina, Joan Bellavista, who was standing in for Gabriel de Sandoval of FEAPDT, Giuseppe Meli of Assonautica and Miss Orsolya Szijj of INNOREG. This initial conference concluded with speeches by Pedro Velazquez Hernandez from the EC DG Education and Culture-Sport unit and Miss Nathalie Hesketh from the EC Maritime Policy Task Force, who emphasised the importance of training for the marina industry in agreement with the Maritime Policy of the EU.
Seatraining will create a forum of best practices in order to improve the effectiveness and quality of the services provided in nautical facilities, by sharing experiences in the use of training materials, security and protection, environmental control and port management at different locations.
The forum will also attempt to satisfy some of the new requirements that have emerged as a result of the growth in nautical tourism.
