Deprez, T.

Meerburg, E.

Parades Coral, E.

Roelofs, M.

tkint, T.

Vanblaere, S.

Vanreusel, A.

Verstraeten, T.

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MarineTraining.eu – Towards tomorrow’s new blue challenges in Europe's 
Marine and Maritime education landscape  
tkint Tim1, Roelofs Marleen2, Verstraeten Tim2, Vanreusel Ann2, Deprez Tim2, Parades Coral 
Evelyn2, Vanblaere Shanna2 and Meerburg Elise2 
1  Ghent University, Department of Biology, Marine Biology Research Group, Campus Sterre S8, 
Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Gent, Belgium  
E-mail: tim.tkint@ugent.be  
2  Marine Biology Research Group, Ghent University, Department of Biology, Marine Biology 
Research Group, Krijgslaan 281, Campus Sterre S8, 9000 Gent, Belgium 
 
Currently, a skills gap exists between the marine and maritime industry sector and graduated 
workforces from higher education and vocational training institutes. In order to bridge that gap, 
the Belgian node of  the European Marine Biological Resource Centre - a distributed European 
Research Infrastructure Cluster (EMBRC-ERIC, of which Belgium is an associate partner through 
Ghent University, University of Hasselt, Royal Belgian institute of natural sciences and the 
Flanders Marine Institute) has set up a platform that brings together all available marine 
trainings at a European scale, and provides a series of services towards training organizers and 
policy makers. 
 
This comprehensive database focusses both on higher education institutes and vocational 
education institutes and collects existing marine training initiatives for each country, ranging 
from vocational education programs, master and doctoral programmes to expert trainings and 
specialist courses. The platform is expanding by including non-accredited training initiatives via 
involvement in other European projects and networks (MATES, RIGHT, …). Services of the Marine 
Training Platform include advertising possibilities, practical services to trainees and training 
organizers (application and registration) and the support of marine dedicated e-learning 
initiatives. 
 
The Marine Training Platform also promotes the use of innovative technologies. Since 2017 we 
have been organizing workshops about using Arduino in marine sciences. Arduino is an easy-to-
use hardware and software platform with endless possibilities on reading data captured with 
sensors and controlling connected instruments. Via this hands-on training workshops students 
learn to implement this technology and get an understanding of the possibilities of the platform 
and the potential use in research. A next edition of this workshop is planned in spring 2019 (to 
be announced on marinetraining.eu). 
 
Ultimately, the Marine Training Platform wants to enhance competitiveness and innovation 
capacity of the marine and maritime value chain by closing the skills gap between training 
offers and industry needs. 
 
Marine Training Platform is Europe’s leading website for: 
- trainees in search of European Marine and Maritime training initiatives, 
- trainers in search of assistance for organizing European Marine and Maritime training 
initiatives, 
- stakeholders in search of insights into European Marine and Maritime training initiatives 
  
For more information: www.marinetraining.eu 
 
Keywords: Training; Education 
  


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