METNET

METNET

EUROPEAN UNION
5TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

Thematic Network on Maritime Education, Training and Mobility of Seafarers
The specific aim of METNET is to improve the quality, harmonize the contents and extend the applicability of maritime education and training (MET) for ship officers across the EU. Improved MET qualitywill help to improve the attractiveness of ship officers in the market place, create more jobs for EU nationals and make EU shipping safer, more environmentally friendly and more efficient. 

Harmonized MET contents contents will help to develop the basis for future European ship officers, improve mobility, extend the mutual recognition of ship officers certificates and facilitate cooperation between MET institutions.

Extended MET applicabilitywill make a career as a ship officer more attractive. It will help to meet the existing demand in most countries for national ship officers by increasing the supply, which will also ensure the number of former ship officers who are available to take up positions in the maritime industry ashore.

Taken together, the achievement of METNET's objectives will provide sustainable growth in competiveness of and mobility within European shipping.