The aim of the project is to promote innovation and to improve the school and training system in the Liguria region by taking advantage of the opportunity given by the European and international confrontation through the exchange of cultural and operational models which are intended to be spread for the promotion of a sustainable, inclusive, smart growth as indicated by the Europe 2020 Strategy. The Blue Economy, action field of this project, is a historical pillar in the economic system of the Liguria region. Transportation, logistics, and tourism have been chosen as the three strategic fields for the development and socio-economic growth of our territory. So, by means of transnational exchange and confrontation, the project aims at: - Singling out emerging and/or most significant professional profiles which are now requested in the three fields and describing their evolutionary trends, not last in terms of occupability; - Comparing the skills for occupability which characterize the profiles of the school and training courses of the partner countries; - Analyzing and connecting the different instruction and vocational courses; - Encouraging a shared planning of actions, tools, and quality experiences to support people and skills mobility in Europe; - Promoting the constitution of a transferable model of good practices through the involvement of poles, networks, and school associations which work in the Blue Economy operational chain; - Trying out a multilevel governance model to systematize and spread the actions, products and outcomes of the project for the improvement of the training system in the Blue Economy chain.
The project aims to promote innovation and improvement of the Ligurian education and training system in the nautical and logistics sector. Its aim is to respond to the need to develop a new strategic vision to connect production chains and training supply chains organically, through new ways of working in schools and training, encouraging interaction between institutions, the territory, the business world and the professions. The key theme of the project is the Blue Economy, which represents the economy of the future: it focuses on creativity, through which innovations and new economic models are developed, promotes a strong idea of recovery of values fundamental ethics and sustainable development, especially in the transport and logistics sectors. The project partners are eight and belong to different European countries: having different backgrounds and characteristics, they have allowed to interact in the project with different points of view and experiences. The project coordinator is the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Liguria, the partners are: the University of Turku in Finland which is a European reference point for naval research, the Lycée Professionnel Germaine Poinso Chapuis of Marseille, the GOETHE -INSTITUT which deals with the training and dissemination of the German language in the world, the consortium of Ligurian schools 'CONSORZIO DIRBEC' which groups nautical, technical and professional schools, the ALFA Genovese agency that deals with research, monitoring and training activities professional for the Liguria Region, the educational office of REGIONE LIGURIA and the 'MAGELLAN' association of Porto which has already developed important European projects in the transport sector. The project did not have substantial changes from to the initial plant. Targets and deadlines have been respected, as indicated in the Interim Report approved by the Agency. The main activies carried out during the project are: - identification of the emerging and most significant professional figures in the nautical and logistics sectors, describing their evolutionary trends, also in terms of employability; - comparison of the skills for employability that characterize the outgoing profiles of the various education and training paths by the Partner countries' regulations ; - the different education and training paths were analyzed and correlated; - a certification model implemented by all the partners was implemented; - quality actions, tools and experiences were shared to support the mobility of skills and students in Europe; - a transferable model of good practices was built through the involvement of poles, networks, consortia of schools operating in the Blue Economy training chain; - a platform has been implemented that facilitates the connection between supply and demand of school-work alternation experiences in Italy and in Europe. A whole week of training has been organized in Hamburg on the subject of traning on the job in particular in the nautical and logistic sector. The usability of the material and the contributions produced during the project is guaranteed by the multilingual platform related to the subject in question OnTheMosWay (http://www.onthemosway.eu/) subject of Output 4. The project was widely disseminated as it was presented at three important exhibitions: in Ramua (Finland), in Porto and in Genoa. Furthermore, all the documentation is collected in a dedicated area on the site of the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Liguria.