The following database is a digital repository of relevant documents for MATES, summarised in the MATES report 'State-of-the-Art Compilation'.
The following database is a digital repository of relevant documents for MATES, summarised in the MATES report 'State-of-the-Art Compilation'.
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Based on analysis of developments during the past two decades (1995-2015), the report provides important insights into the responsiveness of national VET systems, notably in relation to changes in demography, technology and the economy.
Based on analysis of developments during the past two decades (1995-2015), the report provides important insights into the responsiveness of national VET systems, notably in relation to changes in demography, technology and the economy.
The Working Group on Marine Graduate Training outlines the context of European marine science education training, and identify recommendations to improve the capabilities of the next generation of marine scientists and engineers to work at a systems level, applying multi-disciplinary knowledge to address complex marine issues which cut across scientific, environmental and social systems.
Aims to describe the scope and size of the blue economy in the European Union, creating a baseline to support policymakers and stakeholders in the quest for sustainable development of oceans, seas and coastal resources. It will monitor developments in the EU blue economy annually and examine the drivers behind trends
Revision of the Leader-SHIP strategy, in response to the effects of the economic crisis on the shipbuilding sector. The report outlines a strategic vision for the industry: innovative; green; specialised in high tech markets; energy efficient; capable of diversifying into new markets, etc.. The group includes all the relevant stakeholders of the European maritime industry: representatives of the European Parliament, Member States, European Commission services, maritime technology manufacturers, classification societies, shipping, dredging, the wind energy industry, trade unions, non-governmental organisations and European maritime regions.
Holistic picture about employment and employment trends in maritime sectors at European and Member States levels.
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions. This Communication therefore sets out an action plan to guide further development of the ocean energy sector. Completion of this action plan in the period 2014-2017 should help the industrialisation of the sector, so that it can provide cost-effective, low-carbon electricity as well as new jobs and economic growth for the EU economy.
One key area of this debate affecting all energy sub-sectors is skills. Our existing workforce is aging, with new entrants not joining the sector quickly enough. Some reports suggest that 72 per cent of energy employers are having difficulty finding quality candidates to fill their positions. This has implications not just for energy sector firms. It impacts on our whole economy, but it does present opportunities as well as risks. It’s essential that we encourage more young people - who are often more interested than they are credited for - to seek out careers in the energy sector with the objective of solving the on-going ‘trilemma’ of balancing carbon emissions, energy costs, and security of our energy supply. Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is committed to working with all sub-sectors of the industry to ensure it can access the skills it needs in order to capitalise on future opportunities.
One of the Catapult’s main roles is to help coordinate innovation activity across the offshore renewables landscape, and to provide the vital link between early-stage academic research, SMEs, industrial application and commercialisation.
Information brochure of Ocean Energy Europe
This Roadmap, puts forward four key Action Plans focused on maximising private and public investments in ocean energy development by de-risking technology as much as possible, ensuring a smoother transition from one development phase to another on the path to industrial rollout and a fully commercial sector. Here, ocean energy development is broken down into five main development phases: R&D, Prototype, Demonstration, Pre-Commercial, Industrial Roll-Out
Review on ocean energy production from offshore wind, tidal stream, ocean current, tidal range, wave, thermal, salinity gradients, and biomass sources. Future areas of research and development are outlined that could make exploitation of the marine renewable energy (MRE) seascape a viable proposition, these areas include energy storage, advanced materials, robotics, and informatics. The article concludes with a sustainability perspective on the MRE seascape encompassing ethics, legislation, the regulatory environment, overnance and consenting, economic, social, and environmental constraints.
This report summarises construction and financing activity in European offshore wind farms from 1 January to 31 December 2017
This report summarizes the survey and workshop conducted by IMAREST and SIN on green technologies. Report discusses the relevant legislations, topics in the roundtable (workshop) and results of the pre-survey conducted.
"Tapping the world’s huge offshore resources will be vital to meet future energy needs, but the dynamics of offshore energy are changing fast: • The shale revolution is asking new questions for investment in offshore oil and gas. • Policy support and technology development are promising major cost reductions for the next wave of offshore wind projects. This new report, in the flagship World Energy Outlook series, explores what these changing dynamics might mean for offshore energy activity in different scenarios to 2040. It also highlights the potential for greater integration and collaboration across different parts of the offshore energy sector."
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted in 2015, is a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to below 2oC. To achieve this goal, global emissions should peak as soon as possible and then must be significantly reduced compared to todays’ level. In line with this agreement, the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee has recently agreed on a roadmap for developing a comprehensive strategy on the reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from ships.
This paper aims to inform policies facilitating job-to-job transitions triggered by changes in the task content of occupations and in job demand. It assesses the distances existing between occupations in terms of cognitive skills and of skills as they emerge from the tasks performed on the job, and the training needs that moving between occupations entails. Skill “shortages” and “excesses” calculated on data for 31 countries and aggregated over 127 occupations are used to estimate the training efforts required to meet the skills requirements of the destination job. Distances in cognitive skills are found to be higher among low-skilled or from mid- to high-skilled occupations than among higher-skilled occupations. Conversely, distances in task-related skills are higher within high-skilled than low-skilled occupations. These results call for policies aimed at developing general cognitive skills complemented by task-related skills for workers in low-skilled occupations, and on-the-job training options for workers in high-skilled occupations.
The EDPR report combines the quantitative evidence from DESI (Digital Economy and Society Index) with country-specific policy insights, allowing us to keep track of the progress made in terms of digitalisation by each Member State and providing an important feedback loop for policy-making at EU level
This study, launched by The European Commission, DG CONNECT, and carried out by Ecorys and Danish Technological Institute in 2015-2016 has been conceptualised and implemented in order to examine the transformation of jobs in the digital economy in the European Union, investigating the penetration of digital technologies into workplaces, the digital skills required by employers and the digital skills currently available in workplaces.
The present paper presents an overview of the current market situation in shipbuilding based on data available until April 2018. The report is divided into three sections. In the first part we briefly look at economic and regulatory developments that might have an impact on shipbuilding. The second part tries to shed some light on shipbuilding demand by looking at recent trends in contracts and the orderbook as well as prices. Finally, the third part elaborates on shipbuilding supply by detailing market shares among countries and companies.
2030 Employment Outlook. Factsheet about EU Skills panorama for demand occupation
This paper discusses how the concept of maritime clusters may bring an economic impact on the integration of women in the maritime sector. The concept of maritime clusters has gained a popularity from the viewpoint of a strategic economic development to increase an overall efficiency and to cultivate innovative ideas in the maritime industry. However, maritime clusters have hardly been discussed in the scope of empowering women in the maritime sector. Women’s participation in the maritime industry has been limited in many parts of the world and both horizontal and vertical segregations can be observed even today. This paper argues that the existing literature is lacking the acknowledgement of maritime women professionals to operationalise the concept of maritime clusters. The term, a “hybrid” integration of women in the maritime sector is employed in order to highlight multiple roles that women can play in advancing the concept of maritime clusters. The paper also refers to social costs faced by women managers in the maritime sector from our research and discusses the opportunities in maritime clusters to reduce such social costs.
Problem Statement: Gender wage gap has already been researched in the Hellenic (Greek) economy or within its public and private aggregate sectors, but, this was the first study ever done, especially for the maritime sector. Traditionally in Hellas, maritime industry income is the biggest one after tourism, while both industries covered approximately 30% of GDP or financed more than 35% of the trade balance deficit, during the last decade. We also investigated the correlation and dependence of wages (total, males, females) on attributes of the human capital theory, such as age, educational level and work experience.
This dissertation examines the background history of the employment of women in the maritime industry and reviews some of the difficulties, problems and hindrances encountered by women in the industry. It identifies international and national initiatives to encourage the participation of women in the industry with particular focus on MET. Selected areas and institutions of the industry are surveyed and the current and future roles of women are examined. A number of questionnaires and interviews were carried out with women role models and some general maritime workers and the results analyzed.
Decision 2018/1021 Member States shall make their mapping tables available by publishing them on the ESCO service platform
"Recommendations:Use the EQF as a tool to compare all types and levels of qualifications in the Union.Update the referencing of the levels of NQFs to the levels of the EQF on a regular basis and at a maximum interval of five years. Take measures to ensure that all new certificates, diplomas and qualification supplements issued by Ensure that referenced qualifications comply with the common principles for quality assurance without prejudice to national quality assurance principles that apply to national qualifications. Encourage the use of EQF by social partners, public employment services, education providers and public authorities to support comparison of qualifications and transparency of their learning outcomes. Develop methodologies on the use and application of learning outcomes in qualifications. (12) Explore the possibility of developing a register, outside the field of higher education, for bodies monitoring quality assurance systems for qualifications. (13) Develop a standard format for describing learning outcomes."
Based on analysis of developments during the past two decades (1995-2015), the report provides important insights into the responsiveness of national VET systems, notably in relation to changes in demography, technology and the economy.
Ministerial Communique. Riga Conclusions: 1. Promote work-based learning in all its forms, with special attention to apprenticeships, by involving social partners, companies, chambers and VET providers, as well as by stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship. 2. Further develop quality assurance mechanisms in VET in line with the EQAVET recommendation7 and, as part of quality assurance systems, establish continuous information and feedback loops in I-VET and C-VET systems based on learning outcomes.
Building blocks in EQAVET Online Guidance on quality assurance for work-based learning (WBL), a web-based tool designed to support implementation processes an actions. The tool is available, free of charge, on the EQAVET network website
Making VET a first choice:Higher level VET provision is steadily expanding and is valued by both learners and employers for providing skills needed on the labour market. Such developments need to be further encouraged and be appropriately integrated into the qualification frameworks and systems. Business and social partners should be involved in designing and delivering VET at all levels, as demonstrated in the “dual system” of apprenticeships. VET should include a strong work-based dimension, whenever possible coupled with an international experience.
Compilation of best practices and user stories about Lifelong learning, mobility and new training programs in the blue economy to make the European work force cutting-edge, inclusive and labour-market ready
Compilation of best practices and user stories about education and blue economy: training should reflect the reality of the job market and at the same time industry should be vigilantly passing on new trends so that they are reflected in education.
Compilation of best practices and user stories about ocean literacy, environmental thinking and ocean awareness with the aim of strengthen the protection of ocean resources. It is through ocean literacy that people can appreciate the magnitude of the service oceans provide, and the seriousness of man-made impacts. And it is through ocean literacy that public opinion can shift in favour of protecting the oceans' natural capital, its biodiversity and its role in regulating the planet.
The purpose of this review is to demonstrate how ocean literacy is currently embedded in European maritime policy and to provide recommendations on how to increase its representation. As well as contributing to baseline information for Sea Change, it is intended that the review and its recommendations will provide a basis from which to develop initiatives and case studies targeting policymakers
This report investigates the state of policies and strategies with regard to training, education and knowledge development in particular. It focuses on governments’ involvement in maritime education and knowledge development and on the best practices within the European Union. A closer analysis will also be undertaken on the emergence of joint public-private efforts