This tool assesses potential forms and related challenges of internationalisation and proposes tools that enable obstacles to be circumvented when opting for a strategic direction in internationalisation and in transferability across and beyond Europe’s diverse Maritime Education and Training (MET) environment. Using a pilot survey as a starting point to derive challenges and bottlenecks, it proceeds to the analysis of different indicative European cases of Internationalised strategies.
The analysis of these points to directions and challenges, along with benefits and costs, of an extroverted strategy open to international cooperation among the diverse forms of MET across Europe. Based on a multiple criteria decision-making approach and on simple key foundations of the EQF framework respectively, the deliverable proposes two innovative tools: the first, the Strategy Direction Location (STRA.D.L.) tool, has been designed to facilitate choice among strategic options open to all MET; the second, the Transcript International Transfer (Trans.I.T.) tool, which uses fundamental ECTS/ECVET elements that are easily adaptable between levels and educational programmes in line with the directions of the SkillSea general strategy framework, as included in the D3.1 Strategy Plan Framework report.
Being based on the foundations of the European credit system, the tools are generic and sufficiently open to enable further specification and can be used by MET to promote the adoption of appropriate Internationalised strategies and support these in practice through a versatile transferability mechanism of credits earned.
Resource available: Internationalized Strategies in Maritime Education Training