The Paris Agreement's goals are being addressed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the European Union (EU), who have established policies to decrease Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the shipping sector for maritime transport, logistics, and port operations. Over the coming years, these policy reforms will force ship owners and builders to find ways to improve their ship's and port's energy efficiency and install new or retrofit existing ship's engines for supporting new marine fuels with lower carbon intensity. These policy reforms ultimately support the goal of achieving zero carbon emissions in the sector. The demand for enhanced energy efficiency and decarbonization will drive optimization in logistics and port operations.
The Zero C project aims to provide students in Albania and Montenegro with the required competencies to face these challenges. Therefore, the educational capacities of the West Balkan Higher Education Institutes will be increased and improved.
The project's main activities include developing of shipping industry specific skills-oriented course catalogues and innovative teaching / training materials and methodology. Furthermore, lecturers will be provided with state of the art equipment for supporting industry skills-oriented courses for students and professionals (for lifelong learning). To create the required capacities, a know-how transfer to the Higher Education Institution staff in specific topics will be initialized and a regional network of stakeholders in the shipping sector will be established.
The Zero C project will benefit at least 50+ staff and 300 students from West Balkan Higher Education Institutes, as well as 60 professionals from WB shipping and port companies and governmental institutions. The project's outputs will be delivered through 4 work packages and 15 deliverables.
