SEA Europe
SEA Europe: The Shipyards’ & Maritime Equipment Association of Europe
The voice of the maritime civil and naval technology industries in Europe
What does SEA Europe stands for?
SEA Europe represents close to 100% of the European shipbuilding industry in 16 nations, encompassing the production, maintenance, repair, and conversion of all types of ships and floating structures, commercial as well as naval, including the full supply chain with the various producers of maritime systems, equipment material, and services. Consolidates and strengthens the EU’s frontrunner role in RD&I, greening of the waterborne sector, and digital technologies. Develops concepts essential to ensure the transition to a clean, digital and competitive European waterborne transport sector and to enhance the sector’s competitiveness. Moreover, SEA Europe is a recognised social partner in the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Shipbuilding.
Within the LeaderSHIP project, SEA Europe is leading Work Package 2 “Strategic and sustainable cooperation on skills”, which includes important tasks such as:
- Strengthening the Shipbuilding and Maritime Pact for Skills (with Foro Maritimo Vasco)
- Mapping regional ecosystems (with Foro Maritimo Vasco)
- Enhancing business-education and inter-company collaboration
- Mapping upskilling and reskilling support and financing scheme (with GICAN)
- Developing a sectoral skills strategy
Contact us:
Monia El Faziki, Director EU Public and Social Affairs: me@seaeurope.eu
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University of Deusto
The University of Deusto, a HEI of over 130 years, was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus. It covers seven main fields of study: Business, Law, Health, Education and Sport, Theology, Social and Human Sciences and Engineering. It aims to train leaders who can combine a professional, humanist and ethical perspective through a full range of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education programmes and it is ranked among Spain’s leading universities for its world-class teaching and top-level performance.
Deusto is a non-profit university, with more than 11,200 students, of which 465 are international coming from 77 different countries that combines a high level of internationalisation with excellence in teaching. It is remarkable for its capacity to combine many contrasting elements: local roots and global challenges, historic awareness and concerns for the future, leadership engagement and social commitment, intellectual rigour and experience-based learning, competition and cooperation, tradition and innovation. Ours is one of the 18 universities accredited by the Spanish Ministry of Education as an International Campus of Excellence since 2015. With campuses in Bilbao and Donostia-San Sebastian and branches in Vitoria-Gasteiz and Madrid, its 7 faculties are characterised by their capacity for both internal and external collaborations. UD offers 34 bachelor’s Degrees, 14 Double Degrees, 40 Master Programmes, 15 specialisation courses, 15 Executive Education Masters and courses, 9 Doctoral Programmes.
We are striving for internationalisation, without excluding other regions, and demonstrate a clear commitment to Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, having signed agreements with 527 universities. 1,767 students and 49 members of staff took part in mobility programmes during the 2022-23 academic year. The faculties are also involved in European programmes. Deusto has developed strong experience in Project Management since 1989, coordinating large projects and participating in 4 Erasmus Mundus Masters Programmes, over 100 International Research Projects, as well as 78 Erasmus+ projects, coordinating 24 of them.
The University of Deusto aims at excellence in education and achieved a significant position of international leadership for decades. In keeping with its institutional policy, Deusto has focused on creating international networks and projects, which have become increasingly important and enhanced the university’s prestige. This offers a wide range of advantages, creating opportunities to share experiences and find research, teaching and management synergies. These initiatives boost exchange between students, faculty and administration and services staff, creating an ideal environment to start up and implement international projects.
Contacts
Dr. José Antonio Campos – Executive MBA | Deusto- Director
Email address: tontxu.campos@deusto.es
Organisation webpage www.deusto.es
Dr. José Luis del Val – Professor | Engineering Faculty
Email address: joseluis.delval@deusto.es
Dr. Fernando Díez – Associate Professor | Education & Sport Faculty
Email address: fdiez@deusto.es
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) was founded in 1968 and recognized under the present title in 1980. It is the only public university in the Basque Country, and it is a member of ENLIGHT, a European University alliance of ten Universities from ten European countries (Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland).
The training offer of the UPV/EHU is quite wide: 67 Bachelor´s Degrees, 103 master programs, 44 expert diplomas and 71 PhD programs. There are also research groups. In 2021 there were 289 groups, with, for example, a production of 465 theses in 2020-21 (42% international and 13 % in the Basque language) and 3713 scientific publications in 2020.
Taking part in the LeaderSHIP Project, the members of the UPV/EHU are all from the School of Engineering of Bilbao, which is lay out in three different buildings. Two of them in Bilbao and one in Portugalete (the Nautical Branch). In the School ,there are 4750 Students, 550 Lecturers, 130 Researchers and 150 Services personnel. Two departments are involved: the Energy Engineering department and the Business Organization Department.
Within the Project, the University of the Basque Country will be involved mainly in Work Package 2 (Strategic and sustainable cooperation on skills) in tasks 4, 5 and 6; in Work Package 3 (Curricula Design) in tasks 1 and 2; and above all, in Work Package 4 (Training Provision), developing training/learning methodologies and technologies, piloting the courses and developing a sectoral approach towards the transfer and validation of training.
