Blue skills and employment development: strategies and good practices for blue growth

Blue skills and job development are key components to support sustainable blue growth. The implementation of effective strategies is necessary to anticipate changes and the adoption of good practices in this area can improve the competitiveness, resilience and sustainability of the blue economy. The initiative, in addition to presenting some consolidated good practices and the strategies that have been implemented, intends to offer an overview of the scenario of employment opportunities offered by the integration of the different sectors of the Blue Economy with a timely assessment and forecast of skills by intervening, in fact, to fill blue skills gaps and forecast skill requirements based on sector trends and technological advances as well as present education and training programs to encourage younger generations to approach the different sectors of the blue economy.

Session Chair

Massimo Bellavista, Legacoop Agroalimentare, member of Ecomondo STC for the Blue Economy

Programme

11.00 Welcome greetings
Anna Montini, Councilor for the Blue Economy of the Municipality of Rimini

11.10-11.20 Contribution MEP Elisabetta Gualmini, Industry, Research and Energy Commission of the European Parliament

11.20-11.30 Contribution Prof. Elena Gaudio, Ministry of Education and Merit (remote)

11.30-11.40 The experience of the Politecnico del Mare di Catania
Cristina Bellissima, Professor

11.40-12.10 The BOUTCAR project. Blue Jobs Through Blue Careers:

Project overview & the Italian perspectives
Laura Zambrini, Demetra Formazione

Demand for education and training in the Spanish context
Jorge Romon, ARVI

Fishery and aquaculture demanding for education on the Greek experience
George Triantaphyllidis, UPAT University of Patras

12.10-12.20 OPTIMA Project: Good practices in molluscs aquaculture
Andrea Gugnali, M.A.R.E.

12.20-12.30 Blueslinks: Blue Economy New Skills project
Angela Nazzaruolo, Delta 2000

12.30-12.40 WINBLUE – Women in Blue Economy project
Rebecca Pogni, University of Siena

12.40-12.55 The European initiative “Fishers of the Future”
Joan Roussoulière-Azzam, Policy Officer DG MARE, European Commission (remote)

12.55-13.10 Sustainable fisherman
Hendrik Kramer, Fish entrepreneur

Open discussions

Conclusions​
Rosalie Tukker, Policy Advisor Europêche