About KNOWME

Maintain and enrich the knowledge capital of the European Maritime sector by identifying knowledge enablers. Encourage the creation, transfer and integration of knowledge. The Community’s maritime sector must sustain and improve its competitive advantage, independently from economic crisis. Therefore, a need of a general improvement of and strategy to develop such knowledge that will enable it to be more proactive in relation to developments originating from international competition and environmental requirements is imminent.
Improve opportunities for innovative education and training. Employees in the maritime transport sector are in need of innovative opportunities for education and training that focus on their special working conditions. The KNow-ME project will address this need by developing a centre of excellence that develops and provides a product line of courses and training opportunities that meets the needs of industry as regards content, structure and teaching/learning technologies and with the necessary time, place, and communication convenience.

Carrying out research for image improvement. The necessary modal shift of transport from land to sea will be facilitated by improving the image and awareness of the Community’s shipping among politicians, decision-makers, the general public and potential employees as well as the media and the opinion makers. Therefore, this project will carry out research among members of these groups to identify weaknesses and threats to be confronted and strengths and opportunities to be exploited. The findings will yield strategies for improving the image and awareness of the maritime industry in the Community can be developed and increase awareness.