On 16.12.2009 in the Maritime Transport and Inland Shipping Department of the Ministry of Infrastructure there was held a working meeting concerning the issue of establishing a European Center of Maritime Education.
Our university was represented by the Vice Rector for Science Przemyslaw Rajewski, PhD, 2nd MEng and the Dean of the Faculty of Navigation Jerzy Hajduk, PhD, Master Mariner. At the meeting, chaired by the director of the Maritime Transport and Inland Shipping Departmen,t Dorota Lost-Sieminska, there was set up a plan of action, worked out by the representatives of our University, as well as the structure of European Marine Education Agency (EMEA) was proposed.
The objective of the European Center of Marine Education is a new European standard of seafarers’ training to be achieved due to the standardized level and demands of the European Marine Training Centers as well as the standardized qualification training curricula and implementation of both the European standards of testing marine skills and knowledge, and a European model of marine training