Abstract
The 21st century endeavour bring new challenges for the maritime industry. The challenges facing the professionals within the industry are multifaceted and complex due to globalization, cross-cultural interrelationships, and technological change that are permeating the maritime industry. The aim of this article is to contribute to better understanding the problem of developing the future maritime industry professional, filling the existing gap between education and training programmes, while integrating the 21st century professional skills. The contents of a comprehensive education and training programme shall be proposed within a knowledge triangle encompassing academia, the industry and relevant authority or regulatory institutions, so all interested parties’ “voices” will be considered. Besides raising awareness for the educational and training challenges ahead, more effective teaching methods are suggested in order to meet the needs, particularly supporting double loop learning, together with a pragmatic proposal for a realistic programme at master’s level. The proposed programme is based on the EU MarLEM project, which aims towards the development of the 21st century maritime industry professional, focusing on logistics, engineering and management contents.
Highlights
Globalization has been the main driver in the world system since the end of the twentieth century, and the maritime industry has been playing a significant role in it for centuries.The first wave of globalization was done by the Portuguese, the world’s first naval superpower [1]
Section three introduces the MarLEM case, an EU funded project aimed at building a new education programme for the maritime industry professional of the 21st century, which is related to logistics, engineering and management
The university must take the lead in this process, becoming an organization that is able to solve the immediate problems, but mainly implementing an internal critical process of rethinking its structure, teaching contents and used methodologies, that is, managing to implement a double loop Learning
Summary
Globalization has been the main driver in the world system since the end of the twentieth century, and the maritime industry has been playing a significant role in it for centuries. Globalization is about interconnecting people; the core subject is communication, whatever form it takes, remote or face-toface, using ICT or physical transportation This means a considerable amount of intercultural relationships are at play which raises cultural gaps responsible for attrition and conflicts, besides the specific technicalities involved. Section three introduces the MarLEM case, an EU funded project aimed at building a new education programme for the maritime industry professional of the 21st century, which is related to logistics, engineering and management. The fostering of this programme argues on the need for an adequate level of integration of the relevant education matters, as opposed to just a set of unrelated, relevant, courses.
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