The main objective of the BLUEFISHING TRAINING project is to promote innovative approaches to strengthen cooperation between the extractive fishing industry and the scientific community, strengthening the transfer of experience/knowledge in training, research and innovation to reinforce the sector’s competitiveness in sustainable fisheries. To this end, the project focuses on updating and promoting the qualification of professionals in the fishing sector and their adaptability to the labor market in order to maintain their employability and improve their professional progression and growth, based on a sectoral diagnosis that allows the development of a Sectoral Cooperation Plan on Skills, integrating innovative practices and the acquisition of new professional competencies related to the extractive fishing activity. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

This general objective is broken down into a series of specific objectives:

1. Promote structured frameworks for collaboration between industry and education in the extractive fishing sector.
2. Identify needs and opportunities for improvement in current training programs.
3. Engage the business sector in training and specialization, updating professional training, new professional skills and lifelong learning.
4. To orient training to practice through qualitative learning models, promoting learning based on practical work.
5. Developing innovative practices, acquiring new professional skills and reducing the environmental impact related to aquaculture activities.
6. Improve the competitiveness of the fishing sector through specialized training of professionals in the sector on the latest technological and market advances, allowing them to respond to the needs of the labor market.
7. Promote social participation and outreach.

This project is implemented under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the General Secretariat of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food according to the guidelines of RD 1155/21, PRTR.