Maritime industries across Europe suffer from a scarcity of people with the right qualifications, skills and experience. There is a clear mismatch between the knowledge and competences acquired throughout the educational path and those required on the job market. For this reason, closer cooperation between the industry and educational institutes is needed. Education and training curricula can become more responsive to labour market needs by integrating skills gap analysis and forecasts into the design of educational programmes and by involving industry early on. The Blue Careers call that DG MARE will launch next year will help key stakeholders at local level to make progress in this field and will help both businesses and educational institutes to work better together.

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