OnBoard-Med, Harmonization of on Board Medical Treatment, Occupational Safety and Emergency Skills in Baltic Sea Shipping

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There is a strong cross-border challenge for vocational training of emergency skills in maritime transport in Central Baltic area, due to needs in employment, due to increase of risks and due to new technology, such as IT-based ship emergency advisory systems and intelligent medical equipment. The overall objective is in harmonizing and developing courses of skills in maritime emergency management, medical treatment and occupational safety. The beneficiaries are in the maritime (seaman, deck officer, maritime engineer) and nursing (registered nurse, emergency care nurse and public health nurse) education institutions. The expected improvements in education and safety are significant, and will therefore attract continued use. The participants will get excellent professional skills, and also are able to get international certification from the courses when applicable. Further, the results help the local employees in entering the European and international labor market. The development approach is based on surveys of the state-of-art in the maritime transport chain. Based on the results, the main outputs will be three Work Packages (Emergency Management, Maritime Medical Treatment and Occupational Safety Onboard) with total of 9 courses of different lengths (2-8 ECTS). The courses will be built, pilot tested and improved cyclically during three years with the target groups. Distance learning, especially onboard, will be easier than before. The courses can be updated easily and can be distributed in larger area than before. For radical improvement of education, a cross-border approach is needed as the shipping industry has become highly multinational, and the teething problems in education cannot easily be solved on the national level. The innovative co-operation between medical and maritime institutes in the project has a broad impact on CB Programme Regions, who have at least 68 vocational schools giving education of the project topics. Information added on 2020-05-14, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): To increase efficiency dealing with emergencies at sea and for a smoother mobility of personnel across-borders, Central Baltic project OnBoard-Med piloted and tested a series of cross-border oriented courses aimed at equipping personnel on-board of ships with knowledge about on-board medical treatments and occupational safety.

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