Deprez, T.

Paredes-Coral, E.

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Poster presentation Informative poster 
RIGHT skills for the RIGHT people: The RIGHT Project  
Paredes-Coral Evelyn and Deprez Tim 
Ghent University, Department of Biology, Marine Biology Research Group, Campus Sterre S8, 
Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Gent, Belgium  
E-mail: evelyn.paredescoral@ugent.be  
 
The North Sea Region (NSR) boasts six of the top eight countries in Europe for innovation and is 
a great place to live and work. However, the region’s stability and long-term prosperity depends 
on its ability to strengthen knowledge transfer and business support across the borders. 
 
What can be done to stimulate sustainable economic growth in the region? 
 
RIGHT* is an Interreg project which approach is to connect smart specialisation strategies in the 
NSR to human capital and skills (especially in small to medium enterprises). Through 
collaborations, the project will define existing and potential regional growth sectors and sub-
sectors (blue and energy). In addition, skills gaps will be identified to unlock innovation capacity 
by testing new models to overcome skills barriers. RIGHT aims to build methodology, develop 
knowledge and to provide a model for long-term solutions and transferability by designing and 
testing tailored educational and training programmes targeting the skills gaps. The successful 
results will be capitalised by the partner regions to generate long-term impact in the context of 
rapidly changing skills demands. RIGHT Project brings together a multidisciplinary partnership 
of 7 regional partners. Ghent University will actively participate in the collection and 
dissemination of vocational trainings, educational programmes as well as in the design and 
testing of pilot case studies, through the Marine Training Platform (www.marinetraining.eu). 
 
*RIGHT is a project co-funded by the North Sea Region Programme 2014 – 2020, European 
Regional Development Found (ERDF) 
 
Keywords: Skills-gaps; Blue & energy; VET; North Sea Region; Innovation 
  


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