Project news

A public access Workshop on the Pilot Project, Collaborative Maritime Knowledge & Training Systems was held in Riga on Friday 16th December. The key papers can be down loaded from the appropriate section of this site. Speaking after the seminar partner Professor Ralph Becker-Heins said, “A Knowledge Management System ought to capture all the different kinds of information existing in our profession. It should also make it easy for seafarers to capture, store and disseminate information. The knowledge stored in this system must be accessible to search parameters and operate in the same manner that the human brain does. It should collate, organise, store and retrieve information in an effective manner”

Stephen Chapman, General Secretary of InterManager said, “Exchange of expert knowledge between training providers remains slow and fragmented at best. InterManager is pleased to collaborate and share to help fill this clear gap in maritime knowledge transfer in this new Leonardo project. We very much support the aim to develop a simple, sustainable and IT-supported system working on the basis of give and take: collaboration meshes well with our thinking”.

Final outcomes of the project will be announced at a seminar and press conference in London in the late autumn of 2006. For further details watch this web site.